President Muhammadu Buhari has said the Nigerian Army was soft on Biafrans during the Civil War.
This, Buhari said, was because the then head of state, Yakubu Gowon, issued strict instructions to the army, that Biafrans were not enemies but “brothers and sisters of the rest of Nigerians”.
Buhari stated this on Monday during his investiture as Grand Patron of the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) at the presidential villa in Abuja.
He said: “Earlier in my profession, during the civil war, I know how much sacrifice members of the Nigerian Red Cross and their international counterparts did both in the real front of operations and at the rear, on both sides. I think it is a lot of sacrifices because anything can happen to you in the operational areas.
“The risks they faced were real and I admire their courage and commitment to helping people who were in distress and were virtually in millions. Those photographs of people from the Biafra enclave spoke a lot.
“I remember with nostalgia the performance of the commander-in-chief, General Yakubu Gowon. Every commander was given a copy of the commander-in-chief’s instructions that we were not fighting enemies but that we were fighting our brothers. And thus, people were constrained to show a lot of restraint.
“The international observer teams were allowed to go as far as possible within and outside the front and I think this was generous and very considerate of General Gowon. He is a highly committed Nigerian.”
The civil war, which broke out in 1967, after eastern Nigeria declared “Republic of Biafra” ended in 1970.
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