We must know our enemies and those who helped in the killing of more than 3.5 million of our people. Today we want to look at the life of this man Brig. Gen. Ike Nwachukwu, as we come to know him. Who was he before and during the war? He was Lt Omar Fanda of the Nigerian army, born and raised in the North, and currently married to a Hausa woman. He had an Igbo father and Hausa mother. During the civil war Omar Fanda was a lieutenant at the break of Nzeogwu’s coup. He was moved to army head quarters provosts, and later moved to join Lt Col. Muritala Muhamed’s division after Banjo invasion. There he became a company commander. He commanded company battalion all through Ore road and confrontations to the banks of Niger to Onisha. Not only that he fought against his kin, Omar Fanda commanded the battalion that massacred more than 3,000 Biafran civilians in Asaba. He in company with Muritala Muhamed massacred a great number of Biafran civilians during the war time. This makes him a war criminal. Under Buhari and Idiagbo’s government, he was sent as a military governor of old Imo state. It is imperative that we understand his legacies as a governor. This man we came to know as Brig. Gen. Ike Nwachukwu came solely to stop progress in Imo state as the military junta were surprised at the progress Ndi Igbo under 4 years made in Anambara and Imo states then. It was Ike Nwachukwu who stopped rural electrification projects in Imo state. It was him that stopped and changed the original plan of Imo state airport as international airport. It was Ike Nwachukwu who initiated the disaster we experience in Aba today. Under de Sam Onunaka Mbakwe, Ndiegoro drainage project was in top gear to control floading in Aba. It was a gigantic project. Ike Nwachukwu stopped it and till date that project was never re visited. Aba flooding today would have been taken care of if he had completed that project. 2 hours ago
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 21:40:10 +0000
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