Nigeria’s Civil War Veteran, Col Achuzia Is Dead

Nigeria’s civil war veteran, Col. Joseph Achuzia (rtd), has died at the age of 90.

He died on Monday at the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, Delta State.

According to PUNCH report, Achuzia who fought on Biafra side after he left the Nigerian Army died after a brief illness.

One of his sons, Mr. Benedict Onyeka Achuzia, confirmed his demise to journalists in Asaba, Delta state capital, saying that his father passed on at 8:am.

“My father was the best dad ever. I was so sad when he gave up. Even when he was being taken to the mortuary, I couldn’t believe it.

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“Shortly before his death, he was smiling, but we never knew he was going. May his soul rest in perfect peace.”

The late Achuzia held the influential traditional title of Ikemba of Asaba Kingdom and was said to have fled the Nigerian Army to the South-East fearing anti-Igbo sentiment, and joined forces with the late Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu after enlisting in the Biafran Army in May 1967.

The late Col. Achuzia (rtd.) was born in 1929. He was a Major in the Biafran Army during the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 to 1970.

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