Military1971· 12-day insurrection · ~150 fighters· Chapter IV · Record

Adaka Boro & the 12-Day Niger Delta Republic (background)

Two years before he died at the Bonny Sector in May 1968, Isaac Adaka Boro had on 23 February 1966 declared the Niger Delta People's Republic at Kaiama — the first armed secession of post-independence Nigeria, suppressed within twelve days by the Federal authorities. The contradictions Boro raised — minority self-determination, oil-revenue ownership, the abolition of the Native Authority system in the Delta — were never resolved and exploded again in 1990 (MOSOP), 2005 (MEND) and 2016 (Niger Delta Avengers). Posthumously honoured by Buhari (2022) with the National Productivity Order of Merit.