What you didn’t know about “Odi Massacre”, Bolou, former Bayelsa commissioner narrates the ordeal

It was on November 20, 1999, that the Nigerian military, allegedly acting on the orders of then President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, invaded Odi, a predominantly Ijaw community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, and wreaked monumental havoc on the community. The attack, which many observers have described as a pogrom, came at a […]

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