In other armies around the world, every effort is made to take fallen comrades home to a heroes burial with full military honors. The prospect of being buried in some unmarked secret grave in Sierra Leone certainly would not inspire patriotic emotions in any BiafraNigerian. I have read that many of the BiafraNigerians that perished in the ECOMOG misadventures in Sierra Leone and Liberia were from the South. The tribal warlord that he is, Malu is only quick to recognize a barbarous massacre when his own uncle and his Tiv village is at the receiving end.
Genocide Victor Malu commanded the massacre of old men, children, and women in Odi. But, the hundreds of people he slaughtered in Odi are so unimportant to him that he does not even know in which state of BiafraNigeria Odi is located. He says Odi is in Rivers State.
But, that tribal warlord expects money and sympathy from BiafraNigerians because some members of his Tiv stock died in his village during a raid by the thugs he trained.
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quote:He said when he spoke with President Olusegun Obasanjo on the matter, the President said: "Victor, you know that this kind of thing happens and you should not personalise it."
I love that line.
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In This Day’s version of that report, Malu makes it clear that he actually brought the 800 bodies back to BiafraNigeria, but he buried them secretly at night. I think he should be tried for crimes against humanity. Thank God that cold-blooded bastard is not running for office.
quote:I Buried 800 ECOMOG Soldiers Secretly - Malu Former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Victor Malu, yesterday in Abuja, said that he brought home 800 corpses of Nigerian solders, killed in peace-keeping assignment in Liberia and directed their secret burial when he served as ECOMOG (ECOMOG Monitoring Group) force commander.
Testifying before the Justice Okwuchukwu Opene judicial commission of inquiry into communal clashes in four states- Benue, Taraba, Nasa-rawa and Plateau- Malu said the corpses were buried quietly in the nightto avoid national uproar and panic.
Nigeria's involvement with ECOMOG began in 1990 as the monitoring group was first deployed in Liberia in that year to halt factional fighting in the capital, Monrovia.
It was set up under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) who were concerned at the threat of instability in the region.
The ECOMOG force was initially made up of some 4,000 troops from Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Gambia.
The Nigerian-led force moved into Liberia in 1990, a year after anti-government factions began military action to oust President Samuel Doe.
After Doe was executed, the dominant faction leader, Charles Taylor, continued to face opposition from other rebel leaders until he was elected to power .
Since then, ECOMOG was for about eight years engaged in restoring order and aiding the former combatants to return to civilian life.
ECOMOG completed its withdrawal from Liberia in 1999 when the final contingent of troops left the country.
Malu served as the head of the ECOMOG intervention force in Liberia and left after a strained relationship with President Taylor whom he accused of rearming his supporters and factionalising the national army.
Speaking on the Benue killings Malu said that he was not aware that Benue State governor, Mr George Akume, apologised to the federal government, over the abduction and killing of 19 soldiers in the Tiv/Jukun crisis.
The former army chief, said he was not aware of any apology by the governor either officially or in newspapers.
He said he was also unaware of any security report on the killing of the 19 soldiers as he was not in a position to know.
Malu said after the invasion of his village Tseadoor in Benue by soldiers, he contacted the Minister of Defence, retired Lt.-Gen. Theophilus Danjuma and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Alexander Ogomudia, who both sympathised with him.
He said Ogomudia told him that he did not believe that those who invaded Malu's village were Nigerian soldiers, but under cross-examination, Malu said he did not know whether to believe the Chief of Army Staff or not.
He said when he spoke with President Olusegun Obasanjo on the matter, the president said ``Victor, you know that this kind of thing happens and you should not personalise it.''
Malu said that he did nothing to get the 19 soldiers released after their abduction and before they were killed since there were people paid to do that.
He said while he could not state exactly from whom the order for the invasion came, the Yola Brigade commander of the army, who allowed the passage of the armoured tank and other military hardware for the invasion had not been punished.
He also said he was not aware of any action taken against the youths who abducted and killed the 19 soldiers, but added that he was aware through newspapers, of the destruction of some Tiv settlements and did not know of the destruction of Jukun settlements.
He said he believed that the 19 soldiers killed in the Tiv/Jukun crisis last October should not have been accorded national honour or burial.
He alleged that the 19 soldiers were leading the Jukun militia to invade the Tiv and could not have qualified for national honour.
Malu contended that the army invasion of Odi in Rivers State at the time he was the army chief, was not similar to that of his Tseadoor village in Benue State after his retirement and argued that he had no apologies over the Odi operation.
The former army chief who was cross-examined by various counsels based on his submissions in the memorandum he forwarded to the commission, alleged that battle-hungry solders invaded his village last October, killed four people and burnt down several houses.
He said the search for arms and ammunition by the invading soldiers did not yield any result, as there was no truth in the allegation that he was training thousands of local militia to engage the Jukuns of Taraba in communal conflict.
Malu requested for payment of N500 million as compensation to the people of his village and an apology to the people from the army.
October last year 19 soldiers o peacekeeping assignment to some Benue communities were abducted by Tiv militia group and later killed.
The Federal Government gave the Benue State government an ultimatum to hand over men of the Tiv militia responsible for the murder of the soldiers.
Although Governor Akume probably apologised to the Federal Government, troops of the Nigerian Army raided some Tiv villages, killed over 100 people and destroyed Malu's country home, killing his uncle in the process.
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This is dirty, these guys are more wicked than I can imagine.
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Was Victor Malu not also the jury judge and executioner of Ken Saro Wiwa? He also said he had no regrets about the murder of Saro Wiwa..
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Why would the Nigerian army feel disgraced? All they have to do is srew up at all times. Many years from today, they will employ Nowa Omoigui to launder their image.
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