Word: adebayo
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...also true, however, that the Ibos have been subjected to some discrimination. Shortly after the war ended, Major General Adeyinka Adebayo, the army's second-ranking officer, vowed that the Ibos, having lost the war, would not be permitted to win the peace. Many Nigerians, both in and out of the federal government, seem determined to defend those words. Most Ibos who held civil service jobs outside the East Central state before the war have been unable to win them back, even when no other qualified Nigerians are available to fill them. The East Central state is occupied...