Igbo think tank Aka Ikenga has urged the Nigerian Government to honour former Head of State, late General JTU Aguiyi-Ironsi, and late Military Governor of the defunct Western Region, Col. Adekunle Fajuyi. Both men were killed in the July 1966 counter-coup.
“The Federal Government is hereby called upon to honour them because they have been neglected for so long that the younger generation may not realise that they were highly detribalised and principled,” Aka Ikenga President, Chief Goddy Uwazurike, said in a statement issued in Lagos.
He disclosed that Aka Ikenga was on its own marking the 50th anniversary of the death of the two Nigerian heroes.
•Photo shows Chief Goddy Uwazurike.
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