After organizing the Reminisce of Biafra at Achuzia’s Night of Tributes ON APRIL 11, 2018, the Biafran hero will finally be laid to rest on the 13th of April 2018.
Reports from Enugu highlighted the events at the night of reminisce organized in honor of late Col. Joseph Oseluka Achuzia.
Biafra came alive on Monday night with the gathering of Biafrans at the Enugu Sports club. Ohanaeze Ndigbo had hosted a night of tributes in memory of the late former secretary-general of the body, the Ikemba of Ahaba and Biafra war veteran, Chief (Col.) Joseph Oseluka Achuzia.
Joe Achuzia Achuzia died on February 26, 2018 at the aged of 90 years.
Nnia Nwodo who could not hide the shame of sabotaging Biafra struggle came to pay his last tribute to Achuzia and began to speak from both sides of his mouth but had no option than to applaud the virtues of the late Biafran hero.
Speaker after speaker at the event narrated their experiences with the military warlord both in Biafra and outside Biafra. The tough soldier fought at almost all fronts in Biafra and dealt a blow to his foes at Onitsha, Oguta, Okigwe and Abagana sectors of the war.
The night of memory recalled how Biafra practically fought self-defense against assault by the Nigeria armed forces on the former Eastern Nigeria government that declared secession on May 1967.
It was disclosed that Col. Achuzia’s patriotism earned him many nicknames and in Biafra, he was also nicknamed “Hannibal” same as “Air Raid.”
The Achuzia family that attended the night in their numbers said the war veteran resolved the identity problem that some persons of Delta-Igbo have. They said he was proud of the Igboness in him till he died. His nephew, Chief Ejiofor Onyia said “He protected the Igbo man in every sphere of life. We knew him as Governor in Delta.
As a young man, he had shown the characteristics he was made of.” Another relation of Achuzia who is the Vice President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Delta State, Dr. Olisa Ebigwa spoke in the same manner, noting that the sage never suffered identity crisis. “He was highly patriotic, believed he was an Igbo man to the core and never suffered identity crisis. In 1970, when he was released from detention, he said he had suffered, yet he was focused, assertive and bold. He was a strongman till death,” Diokpa Ebigwa recalled.
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