NZEOGWU’S OPERATIONS DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND HOW OJUKWU HONOURED HIM LEFT NIG WITH NO CHOICE.

NZEOGWU’S OPERATIONS DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND HOW OJUKWU HONOURED HIM LEFT NIG WITH NO CHOICE.

NZEOGWU’S OPERATIONS DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND HOW OJUKWU HONOURED HIM LEFT NIG WITH NO CHOICE.

We can shout “It wasn’t an Igbo coup!” from morning till night, but history does not respond to emotions — it responds to actions, patterns, and consequences.

Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu didn’t just lead the January 15, 1966 coup.

After prison, he crossed over and led Biafran soldiers against Nigeria during the civil war.

That is a historical fact.

Now here is the uncomfortable truth many don’t want to discuss…

When Nzeogwu was killed in 1967, Ojukwu gave him full military honours and buried him as a hero of Biafra.

Think about it carefully.

The man who:

• Initiated the January coup
• Executed Northern and Western leaders
• Fought on the Biafran side
• Was honoured by the Eastern leadership

And we are shocked that the rest of Nigeria concluded it was an Igbo coup?

History is not about intentions alone

— it is about how actions are interpreted.

You cannot:

– Claim the coup was “nationalist”
– Then fight for secession
– Then receive hero’s burial from the secessionist leader
– And still expect Nigerians to separate all these events neatly.

That is not how political memory works.

For the sake of peace, we must stop lying to ourselves.

Admitting how Nigerians perceived 1966 does not mean accepting collective guilt.

It means understanding why mistrust was born — and why it persists.

This is one way of solving the issues of marginalization that we “claim” today.

Yes .. there is distrust for us among other fellow Nigerians. How we solve it is by being real and honest.

Peace is not built on denial.

Peace is built on truth, context, and strategic wisdom.

If we truly want unity tomorrow, we must be brave enough to confront history honestly today.

Truth hurts.

But lies destroy nations.

For those saying “Nzeogwu was a Fulani man answering an igbo name to make the coup look like an igbo coup are ungrateful souls.”

How do you think the Nzeogwu’s family will feel when they hear that? Nzeogwu was a man in love of Igbos as an igboman.

Do you even know how he was killed in Nsuka?

He was leading a troop of Biafran soldiers there and then one day while on his helicopter, some soldiers were waving Biafran flag.

He thought they were Biafran soldiers needing help, he ordered the pilot to land the helicopter.

Only for him to see it was a deceit by Nigerian soldiers. So instead of the enemies to have him, he used a grenade to kpai himself and them all.

So let’s stop denying non++sense.

And for those saying because he had Kaduna as his name, he wasn’t Igbo. Kaduna wasn’t his name . It was a nickname given to him by his friends and colleagues in Kaduna.

Check him up on Wikipedia. Kaduna appeared as “Nickname”.

He wasn’t buried in Kaduna as falsely circulated. He was buried by Biafran soldiers in Aba first by Ojukwu’s orders.

But many years later he was re-burried in his village Okpanam in present day Delta State. His village entered Delta state today because of state creation. Otherwise he would have been a native of Anambra State.

Let’s be honest and bold to really settle these issues.