
I have seen on various pages, an iroko has fallen.. I really don’t know how you define irokos in your eulogies..But lemme tell you the much I know about him..
.Nzeribe was an Igbo arms dealer from Oguta in today’s Imo state.
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Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu defined him as one of the con men, whom trusting him contributed to the fall of Biafra and even the prolonged 30 months old civil war.
Nzeribe sold arms to both Biafra and Nigerians Forces and when that came to the notice of Dim Emeka Ojukwu. Nzeribe disappeared to Ghana and unfortunately, Ojukwu had nearly emptied the Biafran treasury to him, to help purchase arms for the war.. Biafrans and their forces were dealt a heavy blow of this..
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Nzeribe was a key negotiator on the Nigerian side for the Egyptian pilots that bombed Biafra land and worthy of note is that Arthur Nzeribe has traded arms in nearly 100% of all the conflicts in Africa from the 50s- the 90s.. Selling to both sides of the war fronts.
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In 1960, Nzeribe worked as a “blackmarket” arms representative of Dr.Kwame Nkrumah but was known to the Ghanaian as his speech writer.. (imagine then, well lesser educated FAN, writing speeches for Dr. Kwame Nkrumah).

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