ABAGANA AMBUSH OF 1968 IN ANAMBRA BY THE BIAFRAN SOLDIERS:

ABAGANA AMBUSH OF 1968 IN ANAMBRA BY THE BIAFRAN SOLDIERS:

ABAGANA AMBUSH OF 1968 IN ANAMBRA BY THE BIAFRAN SOLDIERS:

The Abagana ambush occurred on March 31, 1968, during the Biafran-Nigerian War in Abagana, Anambra state, Biafraland.

The Biafran forces led by Major Jonathan Uchendu destroyed a large Nigerian Army 2nd Division convoy led by Murtala Mohammed on the Enugu-Onitsha road, using locally made explosives known as Ogbunigwe.

Key details about the 1968 ambush:

Combatants: Biafran guerrilla troops of about 700 men against the Nigerian 2nd Division of about 6700 men.

Significance: It was considered the heaviest defeat for the Nigerian Army during the war.

Casualties: Over 6,000 Nigerian soldiers were killed, with 350 tons of equipment destroyed.

Note: The Ogbunigwe bombs killed about 1000 Nigerian soldiers instantly. Then the Biafran soldiers finished the rest off with small fire arms.

Aftermath: The convoy, containing 106 vehicles, was decimated. Murtala Mohammed was taken off from the war front.

Note: The Nigerian soldiers lost more men in the battlefields than the Biafran side.

Nigeria couldn’t defeat Biafra.

The deliberate starvation to death of millions of innocent Igbo children by Obafemi Awolowo led to the end of the war.

Nobody today Yoruba begin betray the South.

In 2015, the Yorubas also betrayed GEJ.