"It’d be a mistake to provoke another civil war" [Video]
Lt. Col. Ojukwu, then military governor of the old eastern region declared the Sovereign State of Biafra in 1967.
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Ojukwu, then military governor of the old eastern region declared the Sovereign State of Biafra in 1967.
This led to the three-year civil war that saw millions of people killed.
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“I don’t think the second one (civil war) is necessary. We should have learned from the first one,” Ojukwu said.
Watch the video below:
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