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Former Biafran soldiers, yesterday, vowed to engage in a showdown with the federal government over the non-release of their entitlements more than forty years after the war, despite repeated promises.
According to Vanguard, the war veterans threatened to embark on a massive protest in Abuja in a few weeks, if government refused to meet their demand within a reasonable time frame, expressing dismay that most of their members had lost their lives because of the absence of reasonable sources of livelihood.
Apart from demanding that urgent attention, rehabilitation, settlement, payment of their emoluments/entitlements and any other money be given to them, the veterans also asked for their reintegration and assimilation into the nation’s armed forces in order to facilitate the payment of their pensions.
