How Ojukwu mortgaged Biafra mineral wealth – Gowon

Former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, has revealed however archetypal Biafra’s leader, Lt-Col Odumegwu Ojukwu, mortgaged the mineral wealthiness of Biafra to the Rothschild banking household for astir $10m.

Gowon made this revelation successful his 859-page autobiography, My Life of Duty and Allegiance, titled “No Going Back,” which was launched on Tuesday in Abuja.

He said the owe of the mineral was successful speech for French-backed enactment for the secessionist effort.

In the book, Gowon said that arsenic the warfare intensified, France provided the rebel authorities with tremendous enactment done the erstwhile African territories it controlled, with the backing provided successful speech for what France hoped to summation from a palmy Biafran breakaway.

According to him, the existent extent of the transaction lone became known erstwhile the Nigerian Consulate successful New York intercepted quality connected a B-26 craft acquisition routed done a South American country.

“It aboriginal emerged that this was successful speech for what they had hoped to summation from him successful the lawsuit of a palmy breakaway from Nigeria.

“Indeed, helium had pawned the mineral wealthiness of Biafra to Rothschild for astir $10m oregon an estimated N5m astatine the time.

“Our cognition of this woody was fortuitous due to the fact that the Nigerian Consulate successful Ne...