AbuMikey:
Why was Major-Gen Mamman. Vatsa killed by IBB?

Was He actually Planning a coup?

Was it because He openely condemed the failed Dimka led coup, and so got a Few enemies?

Did He Actually report to Buhari before Traveling to Mecca for Pilgrimage about an impending IBB led Coup, as He was being accused of?

Was it because a Civilian tagged Him "Nigeria's next President" in an aired event?


Why should a Man who had never Participated in any Coup be treated that badly on just mere allegations?

Why was He sentenced to death on the charge of "Conspiracy to Commit Treason", when in Prior cases like that of Chief Awolowo in 1962/63 and Bukar Madara in 1982, attracted a punishment of long Prison sentence?

amazingspiderma:
Honestly, I am just here to read comments.

I don't even know this name. Nigeria has a lot of undocumented history. We are a nation that cannot tell our own story.
This is why we still recycle a lot of corrupt people in our current politics.

for example...............

amaben2020:
Mamman Vatsa was a classmate of IBB which automatically made him the next in line systematically to IBB. He tendered his resignation letter to IBB but IBB refused to approve it on the ground that they are best friends. Unknown to Vatsa, the Maradonna was plotting something beyond reasonable doubt. IBB made him FCT minister which was not so powerful at that time but was still scared of Vatsa (Everyone loved Vatsa). IBB was a paranoid man who could eliminate the slightest threat he got from anyone including journalists (Dele Giwa). I'm at the office, to be continued..........

amaben2020:
Mamman Vatsa was a classmate of IBB which automatically made him the next in line systematically to IBB. He tendered his resignation letter to IBB but IBB refused to approve it on the ground that they are best friends. Unknown to Vatsa, the Maradonna was plotting something beyond reasonable doubt. IBB made him FCT minister which was not so powerful at that time but was still scared of Vatsa (Everyone loved Vatsa). IBB was a paranoid man who could eliminate the slightest threat he got from anyone including journalists (Dele Giwa). I'm at the office, to be continued..........

MysticZeus:
Haha...

Most NLders don't know who q Vatsa i before dying s or what?

amaben2020:
Mamman Vatsa was a classmate of IBB which automatically made him the next in line systematically to IBB. He tendered his resignation letter to IBB but IBB refused to approve it on the ground that they are best friends. Unknown to Vatsa, the Maradonna was plotting something beyond reasonable doubt. IBB made him FCT minister which was not so powerful at that time but was still scared of Vatsa (Everyone loved Vatsa). IBB was a paranoid man who could eliminate the slightest threat he got from anyone including journalists (Dele Giwa). I'm at the office, to be continued..........

francisbiz:
OP, you are are an incurrable wailing-Zombie, for posting that. 'Snail wey de die inside fire de tink say een saliva de quench the fire'!

tsephanyah:
Em maybee, bcoz he supported buhari coup against shagari rather than ibb during governing council vote.

Mbediogu:


He was the Galadima of Minna Calipha1te who became the Emir of Katagun before dying in the unfortunate plane crash of June twelve. He was a good Crusader and Jihadist leader.

MrPresident1:
Who wants to read?
http://www.gamji.com/nowa/nowa7.htm http://www.gamji.com/nowa/nowa8.htm

AbuMikey:

amaben2020:
Mamman Vatsa was a classmate of IBB which automatically made him the next in line systematically to IBB. He tendered his resignation letter to IBB but IBB refused to approve it on the ground that they are best friends. Unknown to Vatsa, the Maradonna was plotting something beyond reasonable doubt. IBB made him FCT minister which was not so powerful at that time but was still scared of Vatsa (Everyone loved Vatsa). IBB was a paranoid man who could eliminate the slightest threat he got from anyone including journalists (Dele Giwa). I'm at the office, to be continued..........

Histrings08:
waiting for u bro

amaben2020:


“it was a military law which could not be amended. We all got caught up
in the coup Decree of 1976 which gave no room for an alternative but
only death through public execution. If I tell you that it was not
traumatizing, I must be lying and I pray I will never find myself in
such a situation again.”

IBB used decree d'coup 1976 to haunt any interesting army officers that could overthrow him. Although a coup was about to be carried out, it was clear that the culprit was Brigadier General Iliya Bisalla and Vatsa was innocent even when questioned by the court martial screening committee. Commodore Ukiwe told Babagida that "Vatsa is innocent, executing him would be same as assassination ". Maradonna told him to go to his office and continue his work. to be continued.....

stubbornman:

Oga I go vex for you oh complete this story nah

amaben2020:


WHY WERE VATSA AND THE OTHERS SHOT?
In his landmark contribution to Nigerian military literature, titled "The
Federal Republic of Nigeria Army", a former Army Chief, Major General MC Alli, wrote: "The soldier poet and poultry farmer, the peoples' General Mamman Vatsa, a minority of Nupe extraction from Niger State of Nigeria, allegedly masterminded the coup of 1986. It falls into the same category with General Babangida's coup [against Buhari]. It was motivated by an initial resentment immediately after the overthrow of General Buhari. It cannot entirely be divorced from the incipient rivalry that lay latent between Generals Vatsa and Babangida, both from Niger State and of a common alma mater...No major tribe of regional group of political import can be identified. Its conspirators comprised a motley of minorities of diverse background with a rallying point clubbed around General Vatsa's charisma. Curbed in the embryo and tried in secrecy, their subsequent execution left understandable incredulity and doubt in the nobility of the regime it sought to overthrow.
....It failed because a mole compromised it. The conspirators did not fall
within the mainstream of the Army's stock of professional coup
merchants and artisans. Furthermore the regime of General Babangida
had consolidated its tentacles on the network of national power through
generous patronage and populist posturing. This explains his audacity in
executing General Vatsa, notwithstanding national and international
appeals for reprieve. General Babangida told me he was personally
grieved by the insinuation that he executed the plotters because they
were largely Christians. The pressure to execute them arose from the
Plateau officers' axis. Their officers had been victims of the same
military tradition and laws..[i.e. during the Dimka coup of 1976]."
However, Babangida himself has gone on to make additional comments
clarifying why they were shot.


The story long bro, there was intense rivalry after IBB was chosen over him to succeed Buhari

gidgiddy:
IBB was Vatsas childhood friend and classmate. The both joined the Nigerian Army on the same day. IBB was also Vatsas Best man at Vatsas wedding.

IBB once said in interview that he had no regrets executing Vatsa because even if he had commuted Vatsa to life imprisonment, Vatsa would still have been planning a coup from jail. Another thing was that IBB gave Vatsa ample opportunity to desist from coup plotting. IBB openly confronted Vatsa on the rumours that he was planning a coup, Vatsa denied it.

When Vatsa was about to be executed, the last thing he did was to take off his watch and asked that it should be given to his wife.