I had an experience today in my consulting room which made me cry. An aged woman came in and I needed her age to work with but She didn’t know it. Usually in these kind of patients, we use a significant life event to estimate their age.
So I asked her how old she was during the Biafran war.
She smiled and said,“That war that Obim them used their helmet and fetched water for us to drink.”She smiled harder when she noticed the confusion on my face. “We were walking with the soldiers for a long distance,” she
She smiled and said,“That war that Obim them used their helmet and fetched water for us to drink.”She smiled harder when she noticed the confusion on my face. “We were walking with the soldiers for a long distance,” she
said. and they fetched water with their helmet for us to drink “
I dropped my pen and leaned against my consultation seat. I was yearning to hear more. Apparently her mother and father ran and left her with some other children because they were crying too much which was bad for
I dropped my pen and leaned against my consultation seat. I was yearning to hear more. Apparently her mother and father ran and left her with some other children because they were crying too much which was bad for
their hiding. A small group of Biafran soldiers took special interest in them and took them all the way down through their route
They’d share any meat they shoot down with them and then do one thing that this approximately 73 year old woman has not forgotten about the war.
They’d share any meat they shoot down with them and then do one thing that this approximately 73 year old woman has not forgotten about the war.
They used their helmets to fetch water for them to drink whenever they got to a stream, because there was no other container.
They carried them all the way to a village she called Okrikan??? in Cross Rivers State where they saw a small group of adult civilians and dropped them
They carried them all the way to a village she called Okrikan??? in Cross Rivers State where they saw a small group of adult civilians and dropped them
there when they were sure they’d be safe.
This is the same war that we heard stories albeit unconfirmed about Nigerian troops raping women & cutting food supplies to children making them die from Kwashiorkor and Marasmus.
Biafra was a great country and their
This is the same war that we heard stories albeit unconfirmed about Nigerian troops raping women & cutting food supplies to children making them die from Kwashiorkor and Marasmus.
Biafra was a great country and their
people were different in a way.
I learnt one thing from this woman’s story. Most people will forget your acts of kindness
as soon as they turn their back but there exists a small group who will hold it close to their heart forever. Because of that 1%, don’t stop doing good.
I learnt one thing from this woman’s story. Most people will forget your acts of kindness
as soon as they turn their back but there exists a small group who will hold it close to their heart forever. Because of that 1%, don’t stop doing good.
The Biafra war has ended and most of the soldiers are dead and buried but Obimnaetochukwu and friends stuck to the heart of someone forever for giving her water with their helmet when their own parents forsook them and hence saving them from death.
Obimnaetochukwu is the hero you might never read about in history books. I’m glad I discovered him today. May God bless him if he’s still alive. May he rest in perfect peace if he’s dead.
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