Ndigbo will never move on from £20 compensation injustice — Aloy Ejimakor

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Ndigbo will never move on from £20 compensation injustice — Aloy Ejimakor

<div class&equals;"wp-block-wptelegram-widget-join-channel aligncenter">&NewLine;&Tab;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;me&sol;nairavoice" class&equals;"components-button join-link is-large has-text has-icon" target&equals;"&lowbar;self" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<svg width&equals;"19px" height&equals;"16px" viewBox&equals;"0 0 19 16" role&equals;"img" aria-hidden&equals;"true" focusable&equals;"false">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<g>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<path d&equals;"M0&period;465&comma;6&period;638 L17&period;511&comma;0&period;073 C18&period;078&comma;-0&period;145 18&period;714&comma;0&period;137 18&period;932&comma;0&period;704 C19&period;009&comma;0&period;903 19&period;026&comma;1&period;121 18&period;981&comma;1&period;33 L16&period;042&comma;15&period;001 C15&period;896&comma;15&period;679 15&period;228&comma;16&period;111 14&period;549&comma;15&period;965 C14&period;375&comma;15&period;928 14&period;211&comma;15&period;854 14&period;068&comma;15&period;748 L8&period;223&comma;11&period;443 C7&period;874&comma;11&period;185 7&period;799&comma;10&period;694 8&period;057&comma;10&period;345 C8&period;082&comma;10&period;311 8&period;109&comma;10&period;279 8&period;139&comma;10&period;249 L14&period;191&comma;4&period;322 C14&period;315&comma;4&period;201 14&period;317&comma;4&period;002 14&period;195&comma;3&period;878 C14&period;091&comma;3&period;771 13&period;926&comma;3&period;753 13&period;8&comma;3&period;834 L5&period;602&comma;9&period;138 C5&period;112&comma;9&period;456 4&period;502&comma;9&period;528 3&period;952&comma;9&period;333 L0&period;486&comma;8&period;112 C0&period;077&comma;7&period;967 -0&period;138&comma;7&period;519 0&period;007&comma;7&period;11 C0&period;083&comma;6&period;893 0&period;25&comma;6&period;721 0&period;465&comma;6&period;638 Z" ><&sol;path>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;g>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;svg>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;Join Nairavoice On Telegram&Tab;<&sol;a>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu&comma; convicted leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra&comma; IPOB&comma; Aloy Ejimakor&comma; has said Ndigbo will &&num;8220&semi;never move on&&num;8221&semi; from the injustices suffered after the Nigerian Civil War&comma; particularly the confiscation of properties and the £20 compensation policy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ejimakor made the statement in a post on X on Saturday&comma; where he argued that many people wrongly believe the Igbo have forgotten the humiliation and injustice experienced after the war&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It seems to me that some people believe that Ndigbo have moved on from the humiliation &amp&semi; injustice of confiscating their properties &amp&semi; handing them a mere £20 at the end of the Civil War&period; Well&comma; hear this&colon; Ndigbo will NEVER move on until these injustices &lpar;plus more&rpar; are redressed&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he wrote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The lawyer did not specify what additional grievances he was referring to&comma; but his comments come amid renewed debates over historical injustices&comma; reconciliation&comma; and the treatment of the South-East region since the end of the Civil War in 1970&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>DAILY POST reports that after the war&comma; many Igbo people who had bank deposits before the conflict were reportedly given a flat sum of £20 regardless of the amount previously held in their accounts&comma; a policy that has remained a subject of controversy for decades&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ejimakor is one of the lead lawyers representing Nnamdi Kanu&comma; the leader of IPOB&comma; who was recently convicted on terrorism-related charges brought by the Federal Government&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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