Sheguama:


The story about how Col. Wya's wife committed suicide alongside her children is not true. -That was erroneously claimed by Col. Ogbebor, the first Nigerian to be enlisted in the NDA in one of his interviews. The Wyas 4 children (2 males, 2 females) are all alive hay and hearty today. Though Mrs Wya's car had a collision with a truck and died on her way to Kaduna few months after the death of her husband.

Baresywood365:

-This is the accounts of the first son of the late army officer.

Pavore9:
Now remember the movie "76".

fanacy:



what about it?

delishpot:

one ex military govt was executed for gross misconduct on his order when he entered office.

engrchykae:
he is a northern supremacist thats the reason why he despise non northerners like ironsi and gowon.

logica:
Huh? Who?

delishpot:


I was not there, Google told me. Na as you sef ask naim me too take ask. I read that one was executed for gross misconduct.

whirlwind7:
Which is the sad reason why the upcoming generation has no sense of direction or belonging.
Our so called leaders are going to find out shortly how they are doing more harm than good by proscribing history lessons in schools. You CANNOT build a nation by neglecting your past, whatever the circumstance was.
We are still far from becoming a nation, in the real sense of the word.

logica:
Nothing like that happened.

slurryeye:


Show me any soldier that's not a killer. You keep saying read your history. What's there to read, that Murtala committed war crime in Asaba? Which commander at both side didn't commit war crime? Do you forget that Ojukwu and Biafran soldiers committed same atrocity when they invaded mid west? And don't let us forget extra judicial killing of Banjo and Ifeajuna by Ojukwu. So cut me that crap that Murtala got served for what he did because the last time I checked Aguiyi-ironsi didn't partake in the 1st 1966 coup and he was brutally murdered in the 2nd coup. If your Karma is sensible enough, someone like IBB and Gowon shouldn't be alive today.

logica:
I hope you are aware Murtala was originally from Auchi?

zendy:


Soldiers are trained to kill for their country, they are not trained to kill for their vanity like Murtala did. Ojukwu commited which attrocity? Thats like saying that Gowon commited attrocities because of the Asaba massacre. Neither Gowon nor Ojukwu held any direct field command and therefore, cannot be directly responsible for any war crime commited in the field unless they directly issued it or condoned it.

Go and read history well, both Ifeajuna and Banjo where tried by a military tribunal and sentenced to death. They were both given a fair hearing, infact, the transcriplt of their tial can be found in Ben Odogwus book "crisis and conflicts inside Biafra". You have no point.

Murtala led the counter coup that killed over 300 officers from the old Eastern Region.

Troops under Murtalas command murdered over 700 civilians in Asaba


Murtala the showed how much of a bad Soldier he was when he led his Second Division from one disaster to the other until they were finally destroyed at Abagana.

Murtala was then recalled from the war and sent to London.

Murtala Mohammed was a disgrace to the uniform he wore and to the art of Soldiering as a whole.

Generally, Murtala Mohammed was a failed Soldier, a mass killer, war criminal, military dictator and a pychopath.

The only reason the name of Murtala still exists is because Nigeria is not a civilised country.

No civilised country honours people like Murtala Mohammed by putting his demonic face on the local currency or having an international port of entry named after him.

dokyOloye:
The only person I have empathy for is the Wya family.
As for Murtala,I'm sure satan is raping him wtout lubrication for d Asaba genocide.

slurryeye:


First of all, the military trial of Banjo and Ifeajuna was not in anyway a fair hearing, as obtained from the excerpt below
"Banjo was alleged to have staged a coup plot against Biafran President Odumegwu Ojukwu.and was executed as a result. It took a second military tribunal judge to sentence Victor Banjo, because Odumegwu Ojukwu's first military judge stated that there were not enough evidence to convict Victor Banjo of coup charges"
How could Ojukwu accused Banjo of plotting coup against him when he was in far away middle east, and doesn't have ground troop in Enugu to stage the alleged coup.
That being said, you people keep saying Murtala committed war crime without evidence to back it up aside hearsay. Could it have been possible for Murtala to have killed some civilians? Yes I agree, but the fact remains that there is little to differentiate Biafran soldiers from ordinary civilians then, as any able bodied male was a potential soldier in the south east. Mind you, record shows that Ojukwu even used child soldiers during the war. Do not get me wrong, I'm not trying to justify whatever Murtala did if at all he killed civilians, all what I'm saying is, do not demonise him while exonerating others from likely atrocities or potential to do so. Neither Ojukwu nor Gowon nor anyone that fought for them has their hands clean. As a matter of fact, the war was an unnecessary and stupid war to start with

gawu1:

Every time name Murtala is mentions Biafra, ipods, and their sympathizers must shiver as if they wake up and see theirselves inside lion den

dokyOloye:
A pity U ppl don't know even 1 bit of history.
Murtala led so many soldiers to their death in 2 failed attempts at crossing the river Niger.
He also led d failed invasion of Abagana where it was estimated that at least 1000 Nigerian soldiers died.
In fact,he had to be hurriedly withdrawn from the war front and sent on 'holidays' to the UK after his last fiasco at Abagana.
Read brother,read.
A simple google search will also do U a lot of good.
Murtala is a definition of a failed soldier,and is only 'famous'(the proper term is notorious) in the Hitler manner because of the Asaba genocide.

cheruv:

Not that he participated... He was the brain behind the coup that threw out Ironsi, although he lost control of it and the stuff went from a coup to a pogrom. He didn't participate in the one that brought him to power...the leader in that one was one Nanvem like that who I heard was Gowon's relative.
Muritala failed in almost all his military endeavors... From the counter coup he lost control of to the failed battles of Onicha and finally the annihilation he suffered at abagana which led to his retirement from the war.

dokyOloye:
A pity U ppl don't know even 1 bit of history.
Murtala led so many soldiers to their death in 2 failed attempts at crossing the river Niger.
He also led d failed invasion of Abagana where it was estimated that at least 1000 Nigerian soldiers died.
In fact,he had to be hurriedly withdrawn from the war front and sent on 'holidays' to the UK after his last fiasco at Abagana.
Read brother,read.
A simple google search will also do U a lot of good.
Murtala is a definition of a failed soldier,and is only 'famous'(the proper term is notorious) in the Hitler manner because of the Asaba genocide.

dokyOloye:
A pity U ppl don't know even 1 bit of history.
Murtala led so many soldiers to their death in 2 failed attempts at crossing the river Niger.
He also led d failed invasion of Abagana where it was estimated that at least 1000 Nigerian soldiers died.
In fact,he had to be hurriedly withdrawn from the war front and sent on 'holidays' to the UK after his last fiasco at Abagana.
Read brother,read.
A simple google search will also do U a lot of good.
Murtala is a definition of a failed soldier,and is only 'famous'(the proper term is notorious) in the Hitler manner because of the Asaba genocide.

Pavore9:


Before when someone pays in N100k into one's Nigerian account, one can withdraw about 51,000ksh here via ATM but now cards no longer works and the N100k now exchanges for 20,618ksh!