The Late Augustine Nduka Maijeh was said to be among the victims of Asaba massacre during civil war in 1967.
However, the whole Church, St Augustine Catholic church Ibusa in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State stood up to remember Late Augustine Nduka Maijeh for his posthumous birthday Thanksgiving at the church
Speaking shortly after the celebration, one of the son, Mr Augustine Nwanze-Maijeh said that his father was a philanthropist who had helped people and community.
He said, "We are remembering our father as we held a posthumous birthday Thanksgiving in his honour. The Federal government of Nigeria assassinated my father and left us in pain and hardship.
"His passing away brought unimaginable suffering, both physical and psychological on my decease mother and my siblings. My father wealth, both land and property, were confiscated. He has all the documents. We are very young. We have no clue what was happening around us.
"We are using this opportunity to appeal to federal government to compensate my father's death and other victims of Asaba massacre.
"It's inhumanity to human the military committed, a genocide and the victims families deserved to be compensated, No amount of money will bring our fathers back but it's a way of healing our wounds.
"My father traveled down to Asaba to help one his friends who was a lawyer on that fateful day when he met his untimely death"
Maijeh who disclosed that he was about five year old when his father was killed in the massacre lamented that it took the grace of God for him and his siblings to survive things of life, having passed through hardship.
