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Late Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, was on Friday, March 2, 2012 laid to rest in his family compound of Umudim Nnewi, Anambra State in a colourful military burial usually reserved for the topmost brass of the Nigerian military.
Among dignitaries who attended the high profile event included President Goodluck Jonathan, his wife and first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, Senate president, David Mark, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, Family of the late Igbo leader led by his widow and ex beauty queen, Bianca Ojukwu, among many others.
Ojukwu, who was flown out of the country in a military ambulance on December 23, 2010 in a coma, died in a London Hospital on November 26, 2011. He was aged 78.
View photos below…
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| Former Ghanaian president, Jerry Rawlings, paying tribute to his late close friend, Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu. |
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| Ojukwu’s casket being carried by the Nigerian Army |
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