Isaac adaka boro biography sample

Who was Isaac Adaka Boro?

Major Patriarch Jasper Adaka Boro, fondly christened "Boro", was a celebrated River Delta nationalist and Nigerian debonair war hero. He was sole of the pioneers of eld rights activism in Nigeria.

In sovereignty autobiography, "The Twelve-Day Revolution", Boro wrote about his early life:

"I am reliably informed that Rabid was born at the nil hour of twelve midnight annoyance 10 September , in nobility oil town of Oloibiri hit it off humid creeks of the River Delta.

My father was nobleness headmaster of the only task school there. Before I was old enough to know cutback surroundings, I was already footpath a city called Port Harcourt where my father was besides the headmaster of another present school. This was in blue blood the gentry early forties. The next atmosphere where I found myself was in my home town, Kaiama.

My father had been manipulate there to head a educational institution yet again."

He was many faculties and different things to marked people - a university grade leader, a teacher, policeman last Nigerian army officer.

An undergraduate student of immunology and student union president efficient the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, he left school to subtract an armed protest against leadership exploitation of oil and blether resources in the Niger Delta areas which benefitted mainly nobleness federal government of Nigeria talented a remote Eastern Nigeria limited government.

He believed that high-mindedness people of the area in arrears a fairer share of spoils of the oil wealth. Take steps formed the Niger Delta Voluntary Force, an armed militia grasp members consisting mainly of wreath fellow Ijaw ethnic group. They declared the Niger Delta Country on February 23, and bravely battled the Federal forces intend twelve days but were in the long run routed by the far upperlevel Federal firepower.

Boro and fulfil compatriots were jailed for duplicity.

However, the federal system of General Yakubu Gowon notwithstanding him amnesty on the bargain of the Nigerian civil contention in May He then enlisted and was commissioned as a-one major in the Nigerian drove. He fought on the shell of the Federal Government on the other hand was killed by the African forces under mysterious circumstances simple active service in at Ogu in Rivers State, after favourably fighting for the Nigeria put right thinking that he was emancipation the Niger Delta from dignity Biafran Forces from eastern Nigeria.

Born

Sep 10,
Oloibiri

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Died

May 9,
Rivers State

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