Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu, wife of late Odumegwu Ojukwu and other Nigerians are celebrating Bruce Mayrock, a young man who in 1969, set himself ablaze to protest the killings in Biafra.

 

Mrs. Ojukwu who’s also very passionate about the cause of her people took to Facebook to celebrate the memorial of the late Bruce Mayrock.

 

According to her, she and her late husband plan on immortalizing the young man who paid the ultimate price for Biafra.

She wrote

“In the days following the stroke which would eventually take his life, one issue weighed heavily on Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s mind. That ‘issue’ was the immortalization of Bruce Mayrock, the 20-year-old who set himself ablaze in front of the UN Building in New York on this day (29th Of May) in 1969 to draw attention to the plight of the Biafran people (a people whom he had never met, and whom he believed were at the brink of extermination, engaged in a desperate war for survival), who died in the early hours of 30th May, on the anniversary of the declaration of Biafra”

 

However, through resilience and commitment to the project, Project Mayrock is almost brought to completion

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“a three-storey edifice including a conference hall with Projectors, an exhibition floor that will house artistic depictions, iconic photos and historic scenes of our 30 months long heroic battle for survival” she wrote.

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In a lengthy and stirring post which she titled “ He Died that we may Survive … Greater Love Hath no Man … Bruce Mayrock (6 MAY 1949- 30 MAY 1969), Bianca recounted the story of Bruce Mayrock.

 

“In a faraway land, interred within a nondescript grave at the Mount Ararat Cemetery in Suffolk County NY, his resting place marked by a modest plaque with the inscriptions ‘idealist, zealot, student’ lies Bruce Mayrock, a 20-year-old student of Columbia University who died on 30th May 1969 shortly after setting himself on fire in front of the United Nations Building to protest the atrocities that were being unleashed on the people of Biafra at the height of the civil war.

 

He had been carrying a large cardboard sign on which he wrote ‘You must stop the genocide….Please save 9 million Biafrans’. At the bottom of the sign, a quotation read, ‘ Peace is where there is an absence of fear of any kind.’
Bruce Mayrock came from a very wealthy family, having descended from the Fortunoff’s.

 

He was a young man with a promising and wealth assured future ahead of him. His family stated that he had worked actively to protest the war in Biafra. Writing letters about the war to the US president and other leading government figures.

“Please SHARE, light a candle or whisper a prayer for this brother who paid the ultimate price for us all on this Day in 1969.”

In utter frustration and desolation that no one appeared to be listening, he decided to draw the attention of the world to the Biafran plight the only way he felt he could do so….by sacrificing his own life. Someone once said that some prices are so high that they can only be paid in blood.

 

Our Brother, Blessed Bruce, Continue to Rest In Peace. May the Good Lord shine His light perpetual upon you. You sacrificed your life for an imperiled people thousands of miles away from you whom you had never met. The people of the Land of the Rising Sun remain eternally indebted to you. We shall never forget you, Beloved friend.

 

To Onye Igbo Obuna, This concerns YOU. A high percentage of our youth today are sadly unaware of these facts but are ever keen to disseminate trivialities that are of no fundamental value…..

 

Please SHARE, light a candle or whisper a prayer for this brother who paid the ultimate price for us all on this Day in 1969.”

 

Other Nigerians including former Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Minister Fani Kayode also paid their respects to the late Bruce Mayrock on Twitter.

See his tweet and also that of others below

Bruce Mayrock was a 20-year old student of Columbia University in New York who set himself on fire in front of the UN Building in NY City on May 29th 1969 as an act of protest against the genocide that was being perpetuated against the Biafrans by Nigeria in the civil war…1/2 pic.twitter.com/toDwLrqZ01

— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) March 1, 2020

May 30, 1969, A 20‐year‐old Columbia student, Bruce Mayrock of Old Westbury,set himself on ablaze in front of United Nations office Newyork, before hundreds of onlookers & died few hours later. He was protesting against Nigeria’s “Genocide” in Biafra pic.twitter.com/y8SrlU2L6d

— (@kaycdgreat) May 30, 2020

While we are remembering the brave Biafrans who fought and died for us. Please let’s not forget BRUCE MAYROCK. The 20 year old Columbia University student, who burnt himself alive in protest of the genocide against the Igbos during the civil war. He is also our Hero! pic.twitter.com/mjSMCcfJCg

— Mighty Mohammed (@TheVyrus) May 30, 2020

 

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