By Tony Eluemunor
Give it time, and the Lekki Toll-Gate Massacre will assume the nature of the Asaba Massacre. Then, it will have no official mention but will live on in the memories of those directly affected. And like the Asaba Massacre, it could assume a life of its own, and refuse to die whether or not it received the Federal Government’s confirmation.
Last October 10, I wrote in this column: “The Federal troops thundered into Asaba on the 5th October 1967. The Biafrans had melted away as the immediate commander, the late Col. Joe Achuzia (a son of Asaba), opted to retreat to Onitsha as a lorry load of cutlass was all he was given to defend Asaba with. He blew up the Niger Bridge on the 5th. Then, the indiscriminate killing started. It turned horrendous on the 6th and became fiendish on the 7th.
