An impassioned plea from a detribalised Igbo man.

I was born before the Nigerian civil war. As a growing child, I knew when the war started, when the fighter and bomber jets took over the skies and the troops marched by, when my uncles and elder brothers were conscripted into the Biafran Army at the time ... And the mayhem continued until the ceasefire three years later in 1970.

Actually I was so young then that I could not fathom the events that culminated in the war. But I witnessed the part that occurred in my area particularly around Port Harcourt, Aba, Umuahia, Nkwerre, Uga, etc and finally, Enugu as my family was scampering for safety and survival when the cities were besieged by the war. Some of my uncles and brothers did not survive the war, so also were many other civilians who died as a result of hunger and starvation.

Read on: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/nigerians-can-get-along/

"..Anyone who thinks Nigeria can stick together is either a fool or an enemy of the country.." — Falae