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The President-General of Igbo Community Welfare Association (ICWA), Barrister Anslem C. Amaechi who addressed the press stressed that it is the tradition and customs of the Igbos to pay tribute or honour to departed heroes, noting that Ojukwu was a prominent Igbo son in all ramifications and deserved to be honoured to the letter.

“We have been following the burial activities as marshaled out by the central coordinating committee religiously. Dim Ojukwu believed in equity and justice, he fought for what he believed without relent and regardless of consequences to himself,” he said.

The Igbo chief also stressed that Dim during his lifetime believed in equity and justice adding that he fought for what he believed without relent and regardless of consequences to himself. “Without any spirit of immodesty, in the course of his military and political careers, he rendered services to this country which historians and coming generations will certainly regard as imperishable,” he said.

He further described Dim Ojukwu as a visionary and dynamic leader, an intelligent man who foresaw the problems the nation is facing now in the sixties. “No words or encomiums will be enough for the great man,” he added. He called on Igbos in Kaduna to attend the thanksgiving service that will be organized in Kaduna on March 4, 2012 to mark the formal end of the funeral ceremony urging them to remain in solemn peaceful mourning mood.