Geneneral Gowon: Property Edict and Vanquished ',

geneneral gowon: The year was 1970 and the day was January 15, according to Rabble. On that date in history, Major-General Phillip Efiong, Biafra's chief of general staff and interim head of state announced the end of the two-and-a-half year armed conflict that took the lives of an estimated two million human beings. Working together and not against each other will alter our trajectory and carry us further. Though Geneneral Gowon had declared the war as having no victor, no vanquished', which was widely hailed, the reality on the ground was far from the magnanimous picture he painted. In fact, Igbos were let in to what was to come way before the war ended with the Abandoned Property Edict of 1969. Every Igbo man, regardless of prior financial standing prior to the was was handed a meagre twenty pounds to start all over. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.