Emeka Esogbue

 Mgbotu-Ukpe Enclave (1967-1970): The Biafran State in a State in Ibusa - Emeka Esogbue  The Nigerian Civil War echoes several enclaves in the Midwestern Region of Nigeria now called "Anioma." The Midwestern Region fell to the defunct Biafra and their terrorists who operated from some camps located in some communities of the Enuani Nation. Although the Midwestern Region was rather an undeclared territory of independent Biafra before the war, the Biafran secessionists found a sly means of invading and occupying the region in 1967 with the aid of forces led by Col Banjo. One of the territories captured by them was the Ibusa community which forms this discussion.  Mgbotu-Ukpe played a huge role and scarcely would any illustrious son or daughter of Ibusa or Enuani Nation within the conscious age of the Nigerian Civil War claim ignorance of the existence of the Mgbotu-Ukpe forest in the Ibusa community. The enclave existed with many stories to the living whether one was a witn...