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Biafra’s Captain Ben Gbulie Is Dead [PHOTO]

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Jan 24, 2022.

Biafra’s Captain Ben Gbulie Is Dead [PHOTO]

EKO HOT BLOG reports that one of the men who fought on the side of Biafra during the civil war, Captain Ben Gbulie, is dead.

He was said to have passed on at the weekend.

Capt. Ben Gbulie played a key role in Nigeria’s first military coup of January 1966. He was one of the few surviving officers who plotted that coup. Late Ben Gbulie was put in prison when the coup failed, went to war on the side of Biafra, survived a gunshot wound, and ended up in prison again at the end of the war. He wrote a book on the war titled ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors’.

Ben Gbulie Is Dead

Recounting how he was shot in a 2016 interview with Vanguard, Ben Gbulie said: “I was wounded in combat. I fought from Okpo (a border town ) Enugu-Ezike in Nsukka, down to Ukehe through the Opi Junction to the 9th Mile (Corner near Enugu). I was wounded at Abor just beside the 9th Mile, and this was when we were doing flanking operations to ensure that Nigerian troops would not enter Enugu. So I was shot there, and so I was hospitalized at Achi in the hospital run by the Red Cross.

“At Aba, I had to undergo surgery three times because my fibula was shattered, and that is where I give credit to our doctors who ensured that the surgery was okay and that I was not amputated. As I was recuperating, I asked Odumegwu Ojukwu if there was anything I could do to help because, at that time, Calabar was about to fall, and he said yes that I should rest, but I was not resting at all.

“He later made me the military administrator of Aba providence.

“As soon as the war ended, I was bundled back to prison, this time by Gowon’s government. Gowon said, “No Victor, No Vanquished,” yet he set up a board of inquiry whose head was General Adeyinka Adebayo, and the board recommended I should be detained because the inquiry was to determine what each and every one of us did against the Nigerian government during the civil war. I was detained in January 1970 when the war ended. Gowon should count himself lucky because we were the ones that prevailed on Philip Effiong to read a dissertation to show that we wanted the war to end because our people were no longer fighting, they were throwing their weapons down and flying into the bush and so we tried to get sanity to prevail because Ojukwu had run away to Ivory Coast and told us he was going for immediate peace and up till now we’ve not heard of immediate peace coming to fruition. There is not even peace here now in peacetime.”

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