SON OF GENERAL YAKUBU GOWON TO BE DEPORTED FROM THE US SOON

MUSA GOWON AND FATHER

A pan Igbo group known as the Igbo Mandate Congress (IMC) has reported that Mr. Musa Gowon, the Igbo born son of Nigeria’s former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon is soon to be deported  from the United States after his recent release from prison by President Barck Obama.  It stated that its members in the U.S have been mandated to guarantee that “this rejected son of an Igbo woman, abandoned to a life of twenty two years in jail, due to acts not unrelated to her mother’s disapproval of indiscriminate murder of civilian by Federal Troops, is not left without roots.” The group also disclosed that it was ready to give Musa Gowon a warm welcome upon his return to Nigeria.

The statement reads in part: “Musa Gowon was born out of a courtship gone awry between former Head of State Yakubu Gowon, then a Lieutenant Colonel and an Igbo Girl by name Edith Ike-Okongwu while he was still a bachelor. This relationship between Gowon and Edith Ike ended in the heat of the civil war. It is widely believed that the relationship broke off after Federal Troops bombed Aba General Hospital with NAF Napalm Bomb on July 14, 1968 killing more than 500 patients.

 “Edith was said to have expressed disapproval with Gowon over the deliberate bombing of Biafran civilian soft targets and the romance was brought to an end. Prior to that, Edith Ike’s parents, though from Aro-Ndikelionwu in Orumba North Local Govt of Anambra State but lived in the north for over thirty years, relocated back to the East after the first wave of pogrom of 1966.

“The relationship was said to have produced a handsome young man with full name Jack Musa Ngonadi Gowon in 1968. Due to Edith’s constant unease at the indiscriminate murder of civilians, the relationship got frosty and ended towards the end of 1968. In 1969 Gowon married Miss Victoria Zakari, a nurse by profession. Gowon reportedly denied paternity of Musa.

“U.S. President Obama last month granted him state pardon after he had spent 22 years in prison. He is now in the custody of U.S. Immigration booked for deportation to Nigeria anytime from now.

“Igbo Mandate Congress also calls on the Federal Government to ensure that this boy is rehabilitated so that those evil memories of the civil war is not resurrected and used by desperate politicians.

“Igbo Mandate Congress also called on Igbos in the United States to assist to assist Musa Gowon Ngonadi because “he whom has been rejected should not reject himself.”

 “Igbo Mandate Congress also expresses gratitude to the United States President Barrack Obama for the pardon granted Musa Ngonadi Gowon in the spirit of reconciliation and demand good treatment of this man born under the contradictions of love, hate and an unnecessary civil war.”

It would be recalled that the US drug agency arrested Mr. Musa, aka Jack Spencer in November 1992 in connection with the alleged importation of an excess of one kilogram of heroin into the country. This followed an intensive investigation into the recruitment of individuals in the Dallas area to smuggle heroin from source countries such as Thailand or Burma through non source countries such as Switzerland or Austria.