By Luke Mmamael
Since President Mohammadu Buhari has shown that he could fight for justice, I had thought that with the revisiting of June 12 elections in Nigeria, he would have used his good offices to ensure that the injustice of the abandoned property was addressed to make for full reconciliation in Nigeria.
The history of the abandoned property in Rivers State (especially in Port Harcourt) dates back to when the Federal troops took control of Port Harcourt during the Nigerian Civil War, the hinterland Igbo fled northwards. When the Nigerian troops took over Aba, the Igbo people continued to run back. The same thing happened after Umuahia, Owerri, etc., fell to the federal troops. From the northern part of Biafra, it was the same story when the federal troops captured Nsukka and Enugu.
After the war, the Federal Government came up with the No-victor No-vanquished policy as…
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