About the Book It was some forty one years ago, the author remembers vividly he and his elder sister carrying him felling and rolling in a big hip of shit trying to escape from fighter plane attack! – It was the Biafra civil war! He recalls the multiple funerals of a town’s member who was beheaded, his pregnant wife’s stomach trust open with sword and the unborn child murdered. They were killed in the North same day! It was the ethnic and sectarian cleansing in the North! He believes that the Igbos and others have the capacity to reawaken to make Nigeria better and the time is now- “NIGER DELTA”

Litany of willful destruction of Igbo lives and properties since 1966 For simplicity and clarity of the various types of destructions of Igbo lives and properties, they would be categorized in types as follows: Type1 : Pogrom 1966 Type 2 : War, 1967-1970 Type 3 : Civil War loss extraction (A) 1970 Type 4 : Civil war loss extraction (B) Usurping of 80% resource allocation 1970 – Date Type 5 : Ethnic/ Religious Vendetta 1980 – Date Type 6 : Ethnic Motivated fire Disaster Type 7 : ethnic motivated market destructions and closures Type 8 : Unsparing fiscal measures (Custom) Type 9 : International diplomatic reprisal against Nigeria but in effect against Igbo Traders-Libya, Ghana and South Africa. 1966 Type 1 : Pogrom in the North Reason: Reprisal for a failed revolution by a major Kaduna Nzeogwu that occasioned the death of Prime Minister Tafawa Belewa and others/ Death Toll, Igbos : approximately 50,000 lives Igbo Properties lost : No official report approximately $40 million. Type 2 : Type 3 : Type 3 : Type 4 : Type 5 : Type 6 : Type 7 : Type 8 : Type 9 : 1967 Type 1 : Type 2 : Civil war Reason : Following thousands of lives lost by Igbos in the North’s Pogrom they decided to secede from Nigeria. Average yearly Igbos death toll: 750,000 lives Property loss or destroyed: No official estimate approximately average of $45 million per year. Type 3 : Type 4 : Type 5 : Type 6 : Type 7 : Type 8 : Type 9 : 1968 Type 1 : Type 2 : Civil war Reason : Following thousands of lives lost by Igbos in the North’s Pogrom they decided to secede from Nigeria Average yearly Igbos death toll: 750,000 lives Property loss or destroyed: No official estimate approximately average of $45 million per year. Type 3 : Type 4 : Type 5 : Type 6 : Type 7 : Type 8 : Type 9 :

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Igwegbe Lawrence Emeka is a grand son of Eze Igwegbe Odum (Omenukoaku) and he holds a bachelor’s degree in pure and industrial mathematics. He is also an avid reader of ancient and contemporary history and a passionate lover of Igbos and Igbo home land. Above all he believes that if Justice and fair play would be allowed in Nigeria it is capable of becoming one of the greatest nations on earth. HE is author of “Insurance Policy Buyers Intelligence” and other books in publication line. Lawrence is married with three beautiful children.