[Part 2] Chronicling unceasing slaughter of Biafrans in Nigeria before Boko Haram (1980-2006)

[Part 2] Chronicling unceasing slaughter of Biafrans in Nigeria before Boko Haram (1980-2006)

The Igbo genocide was primarily about the protection of strategic British interests in Nigeria. The departing colonialists had secured the collaboration of the northern region, which was vehemently opposed to African independence. Thus Fulani-Hausa elites played a key role in the perpetration of the genocide." Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

Biafrans were first massacred in Jos in 1945, then in Kano in 1953. Hundreds of Biafrans were murdered during these massacres and tens of thousands of pounds sterling worth of their property looted or destroyed (Ekwe-Ekwe, 2006: 8, 19-20). No perpetrators of these murders were ever apprehended or punished by the British regime.

These unceasing slaughters and non-apprehension and punishment of perpetrators have been carried forward till date. Most recently at Onitsha, where over nine innocent Biafrans were gruesomely murdered by agents of the Nigerian government.

Below is a chronicle of various incidents were many Biafrans were slaughtered in Nigeria from 1980 t0 2006, before Boko Haram emerged and took over with the slaughter of Biafrans till date.