THE UNTOLD, But TRUE STORY.

Emeka Ojukwu's mum, Madam Eunice Ekene (popularly known as Ma Biggar) initially married an European: an Engineer called Mr Tom Biggar who lived and worked in Zungeru, Northern Nigeria in 1923
Mr Biggar was holidaying in Europe and left his wife and...
daughter, Esther Biggar, in Nigeria for few months and Mr Biggar's wife (Ojukwu's mum) was travelling with her pretty daughter and met Sir Louis Ojukwu (Emeka's father) who owned the transport company she travelled with.
One thing led to another, Ojukwu's mother and his rich father had an affair that produced Emeka Ojukwu.
Some accounts said that Engr Biggar and Sir Loius Ojukwu were friends and Sir Loius Ojukwu had merely taken advantage of Engr Biggar's wife during his absence.
Mr Biggar came back to Nigeria and forgave his wife and they continued their marriage which produced Tom Biggar: who died along with Kaduna Nzeogwu during the civil war.
General Emeka Ojukwu after the civil war had said that part of his body (referring to his half brother) died in the war.
Photo: Tom Biggar Jr (L), Esther Biggar (M) and Emeka Ojukwu (R)

Culled from Kirby Histories.

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