Have you ever wondered what the country Biafra would have been like? Have you ever wondered if other military strategies could have been used during the war? Now you have an answer! Every Igbo has at one time or the other, especially when faced with unnecessary challenges, rued the loss of the war. Grab a copy of Road To Biafra!
By December of 1969, watchers of the Nigerian-Biafran war concluded that this bloody fratricidal war will not last into January. They were wrong. A group of Biafran renegade officers, frustrated by the execution of the war, were prepared to sacrifice their lives to change the course of the war. By the tail end of December, they took the world by surprise and launched a bloody coup d'etat and took over the reins of power. Behind the success of this coup was the dreaded Biafran elite force – The Death Squad.
Captain Tega, leader of the elite Death Squad, was one of the army leaders that had successfully extracted and led his troop out of the Ore debacle when the Biafran army launched a blitzkrieg against Western Nigeria in an attempt to capture the capital of Nigeria, Lagos in August-September 1967. The squad had to survive the Ore jungles, amidst devastating Nigerian army onslaught, and protect the rear of the demoralized retreating Biafran western army desperate to get back to Biafraland.
Through a protracted peace negotiation the new Biafran military leaders initiated, they were able to buy enough time to reorganize the Biafran army, re-equip new battalions and procure needed weapons. When the Nigerian government saw through this deceit, war resumed, but this time the Biafrans were more prepared.
By the end of 1970, the Biafran army, through deft strategic moves, had regained all lost territories and inflicted a heavy toll on Nigerian soldiers that led to the end of the war and an eventual Biafran independence. By 1976, Biafra had emerged as Africa's regional superpower and a model state…
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