Along with Nzeogwu, Ojukwu’s half-brother Tom Biggar, a mixed-race man, was also slain.
Biggar was Ojukwu’s mother’s child following her divorce from Sir Louis Odumegwu. On July 29, 1967, Ojukwu’s half-brother Lt.Tom Biggar and Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu were murdered in an ambush during the Civil War.
“Nzeogwu and my junior brother Tom Biggar both died in the same action side,” Ojukwu later recalled this episode saying I also lost a piece of myself after that death.
Image info: Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu with his half-brother and sister, “Tom Biggar (left) and Esther Biggar.”
