MEMORY JUGGLING INFORMATION - By Ken Agala Dateline January 1970: Genera Gowon ended the civil war and declared No Victor, No vanquished. He introduced the policy of the triple R. An acronym for Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in a bid to re-integrate back the Igbos into the Nigerian Society. Dateline 1980: President Shehu Shagari granted pardon to exiled Igbo military leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and he returned home for re-integration as his people celebrated this move as a means of unifying the country. Shagari also pardoned all Igbo soldiers who defected from the Nigerian Army to the Biafran Army. Dateline 1983: General Buhari came into power and clamped Odumegwu Ojukwu into jail. He was not charged for any offence and this led him to write the famous book Because Im involved. Dateline 2013: President Jonathan re-integrated the pardoned soldiers into the military pension scheme and began to pay them their pension. Old abandoned soldiers have begun to receive their pensions. Who amongst the leaders attempted to derail the process of re-integration and national building? Who amongst this leaders took concrete steps to begin the re-integration and nation building process. Judge them with your Votes. God bless Nigeria. MEMORY JUGGLING INFORMATION - By Ken Agala Dateline January 1970: Genera Gowon ended the civil war and declared No Victor, No vanquished. He introduced the policy of the triple R. An acronym for Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in a bid to re-integrate back the Igbos into the Nigerian Society. Dateline 1980: President Shehu Shagari granted pardon to exiled Igbo military leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and he returned home for re-integration as his people celebrated this move as a means of unifying the country. Shagari also pardoned all Igbo soldiers who defected from the Nigerian Army to the Biafran Army. Dateline 1983: General Buhari came into power and clamped Odumegwu Ojukwu into jail. He was not charged for any offence and this led him to write the famous book Because Im involved. Dateline 2013: President Jonathan re-integrated the pardoned soldiers into the military pension scheme and began to pay them their pension. Old abandoned soldiers have begun to receive their pensions. Who amongst the leaders attempted to derail the process of re-integration and national building? Who amongst this leaders took concrete steps to begin the re-integration and nation building process. Judge them with your Votes. God bless Nigeria.
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