This was Isaac Adaka Boro on Tuesday, June 21, 1966, the day he was sentenced to death for treason by the government of Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi for attempting to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria. His actions were declared illegal by the Military Governor of the Eastern Region, Lt. Col Emeka Ojukwu, who invited the Federal Government to help quell Boro's separatists group, known as the Niger Delta Volunteer Force.
Unfortunately, or some may say, fortunately, just days before the sentence was to be carried out, the Ironsi government was overthrown on Friday, July 29, 1966.
Nigeria did not collapse when Isaac Boro was sentenced to death for leading a separatist movement. It was not considered an injustice by the people of Nigeria then, and nobody threatened repercussions against either Ironsi or Nigeria as a result of Boro's death sentence.
History does not repeat itself. People repeat history, then falsely accuse history of repeating itself!
Reno Omokri
Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #T
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