Every day I picked little children from the road who were dead – Ojukwu’s ADC

The Aide de Camp (ADC) of Chukwuemeka Ojukwu has revealed the horrors of the Nigerian civil war which lasted for three unforgettable years.

The ADC, Chukwuemka Ejiofor said he was 21 when he joined the Nigerian military before switching over to the Biafran military when the war started.

In an interview with YNaija, Ejiofor who revealed the terrors of the war and the years after, said he lost his memories after the war and his father died of stroke.

He said: “We were systematically massacred in 1966​. ​I was stationed in Lagos at that time and when it started, we had to escape at night to Enugu.

“I feel sad. I was a victim of the Biafran war and you won’t believe it that after the war, for many years I suffered from what I call loss of memory. I lost my memory. I didn’t know all the things I had studied in college as the best student. It was very painful. ​

“My saviour was that I escaped from Biafra and went into exile for many years. I gradually recovered because of the healing process. I had churches, charities, like St Vincent De Paul coming to help us come out from the environment of war. We were just lucky.

“Three million was an underestimation. Every day, I pick little children from the road who were dead. There were many mass graves then that I lost count.

“I used to go to refugee camps to take children to Queen Elizabeth hospital, Umuahia by the next morning they are dead​.​​​​

“The blood of innocent Biafrans especially women and children is crying to God for vengeance because of the cruelty and injustice done to them. It can never die away. It is a spiritual thing that can never be erased​.​

“We are not interested in our past. In Britain and the US, every November 11, they remember people who died in their first world war. They raise money for their veterans. We don’t have that culture here​.”