Civil war: Gowon should apologise to Igbo – Onoh

Former subordinate of the Enugu State House of Assembly and ex-South-East spokesperson for President Bola Tinubu, Denge Onoh, has stated that erstwhile Head of State, Yakubu Gowon should apologize to the Igbo.

Onoh criticized Gowon implicit his caller comments connected civilian casualties during the Nigerian Civil War, describing the remarks arsenic a unsafe minimisation of the quality calamity of the conflict.

Gowon had during an interrogation connected Arise Television said that aft visiting erstwhile Biafran territories pursuing the war, helium noticed achromatic spots connected thenar trees and was informed they were slug marks.

Gowon had reportedly concluded from the reflection that astir of the bullets fired by the Nigerian service deed thenar trees, not people.

Responding successful a statement, Onoh stated that the assertion contradicted humanities accounts, eyewitness testimonies and planetary reports connected the civilian war, insisting that the comments failed to bespeak the existent standard of suffering experienced during the conflict.

He said the war, fought betwixt 1967 and 1970, claimed an estimated 3 mil...