General Godwin Alabi Isama, Chief of Staff to Brigadier Benjamin Adekunle of the 3 Marine Commando, has stated that the Nigerian Army was very small at the beginning of the Nigerian Civil War
In a video from 17:39 shared by BBC News Africa, General Isama said that when the war started, the entire Nigerian Army had less than 10,000 soldiers
General Isama said the army recruited different kinds of people during that period. He said prisoners and “area boys” were also enlisted in the army to join the fight against Biafra. He also stated that even people who had only one eye were recruited into the army during the war
In General Isama’s words: “When the war started the whole Nigerian army was less than 10,000. They recruited prisoners, area boys. If you had no job and wanted to join the army, even if you had one eye we just recruited everybody”….Read_More…