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Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by kettykin: 7:11am On Jan 15, 2021 |
nku5:If this is true then the real threat to the igbo nation is not the north. I am still trying to figure out what was the real mind set of igbos who carried the January 15 coup, was it naivety or patriotism or they were simply fooled into it and betrayed 3 Likes |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by kettykin: 7:11am On Jan 15, 2021 |
It seems the igbos were betrayed 3 times by the same judas 1 Like |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by V7place(m): 7:24am On Jan 15, 2021 |
kettykin: No, these were young revolutionary minded men with socialist leaning. Major Ademoyega said as much in his book. Major Ifeajuna was infact a fiery Students Union leader at the University of Ibadan who led protests against the school authorities over the closure of an hostel and against the visits of the Queen to Nigeria. But the coup lacked poor execution outside the North. Nzeogwu was a tactical officer, he did his job well and infact practiced for it for weeks under the guise of routine military practice; the others failed to properly carry out their orders. Their biggest mistake was 1) Not arresting the head of the Army: General Ironsi which allowed him rally against the coupists and also made the North think it was an Ibo coup with no blood shed in the East and no Ibo military or civilian leader killed. IT WAS NOT AN IBO COUP. 2) Unnecessary bloodshed. 8 Likes |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by V7place(m): 7:31am On Jan 15, 2021 |
Minister of Finance, Chief Festus Okotie Eboh arrested whilst wearing only a wrapper. He was driven around in a vehicle with the bodies of 3 military officers: Brigadier Mai-Malari, Col. Mohammed, Lt. Col. Pam and Lt. Col. Unegbe. Killed in cold blood according to the Police Special Branch Report. [b]Major Anuforo then ordered the four corpses to be unloaded onto the road. The bodies were then carried into the bush on the left hand side of the road. Major Anuforo then observed FS Okotie-Eboh still seated in the truck and asked the question: "Who is that man"?, which leads to the belief that, until then, Anuforo was unaware of the presence of Okotie-Eboh in the truck. The Finance Minister replied "I am Okotie-Eboh". Major Anuforo then ordered the Minister to step down. The latter complied, whereupon Major Anuforo informed him that he was going to be shot. The Minister commenced to plead for his life. This met with little or no response from Anuforo who is reported as having confined himself to stating that he was acting under orders. The Minister was then forced to go into the bush, pushed along by Major Anuforo and Major Ademoyega and followed by 2/Lt Igweze and Sgt. Ndukaife to the spot where the bodies of the 4 senior officers had been deposited. Arriving there, without hesitation, Major Anuforo killed Okotie-Eboh with a short burst from his SMG.[/b]
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Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by Nobody: 7:43am On Jan 15, 2021 |
Garbage thread. OP, pathetic effort at revising history to try and launder the image of the Igbos. Nzeogwu coup was indeed an Igbo coup. Stop the shameless revisionism. What happened then that is not happening today? Do Igbos not remain the same people who, day in and day out, demonize and attack the leaders of others while shielding and praising their own leaders? It really is amusing to always be reminded that dishonesty, deciet and dishonor is actually in the core nature of most Igbos. 18 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by kettykin: 7:45am On Jan 15, 2021 |
V7place:Ok thank you for the explanation but lt col unegbe who was killed by the coupist is igbo . So the case of no igbo casualties in the coup is not correct 4 Likes |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by V7place(m): 7:51am On Jan 15, 2021 |
kettykin: On that point you maybe right; I thought he was Middle Belt or Delta. Like many people still think Gideon Orkar , face of the 1990 coup is Ibo, when he actually was from Benue or Dele Giwa is Yoruba, when he was from Edo. 1 Like |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by V7place(m): 7:52am On Jan 15, 2021 |
Grayoso: Thank you for your contribution. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by ChangedMan1999(m): 8:04am On Jan 15, 2021 |
kettykin: I am aware of all these, but for the sake of peace in this forum, I controlled my fingers. 1 Like |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by Nobody: 8:18am On Jan 15, 2021 |
V7place: My pleasure. |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by Nobody: 8:20am On Jan 15, 2021 |
V7place:Very interesting. 2 Likes |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by nku5: 8:29am On Jan 15, 2021 |
kettykin: It's true o. Sardauna planned to use the Army to level the Western region and kill intellectuals like Tai Solarin 4 Likes
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Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by V7place(m): 8:45am On Jan 15, 2021 |
nku5: I remember now! Thanks for this. This is Why We Struck? I read this book years and years ago when I was probably 12 years old. Especially the Tai Solarin part! Whilst not excusing the killings, maybe this is why they did it. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by dele1727: 8:50am On Jan 15, 2021 |
nku5: All this half stories with no proof.... Awolowo was intended to be head of government...who read the mindset of the plotters The coup was successful in the North's and the west but no one died in the east.... The plot to kill aquiyi ironsi failed just like the plot to free Awolowo... Aquiyi ironsi became the head of state and refused to deal with the coup plotters Aquiyi ironsi as head of state promoted new officers to fill the void of the fallen once...70% was Igbos. Aquiyi ironsi enacted a decree to remove power from the region's and give power to the state... Aquiyi ironsi actions was supported by eastern officers only including Ojukwu... All this half truth will not help anybody 16 Likes |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by StaffofOrayan(m): 8:52am On Jan 15, 2021 |
I blame the useless Akintola that allowed himself to be used for mere political power, A whole AARE ONAKAKANFO conspiring against his own people!! Their personal ambition always supercedes their regions, People like him always seem to end terribly, 7 Likes |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by nku5: 8:54am On Jan 15, 2021 |
V7place: The coup itself was to prevent greater evil. If they were more mature I am sure they wouldn't have killed people. They were just boys at the end of the day 6 Likes |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by Top1gun: 8:55am On Jan 15, 2021 |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by CharleyBright(m): 8:59am On Jan 15, 2021 |
Brilliant. 1 Like |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by Liposure: 9:07am On Jan 15, 2021 |
nku5:abacha is the only soldier to have participated in every successful coup in nigeria including the 66 counter coup. Had orkar had abacha on his side who knows... 5 Likes |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by V7place(m): 9:11am On Jan 15, 2021 |
dele1727: Those two I can answer. 1) Awolowo was intended to be head of government...who read the mindset of the plotters: No one read their mind, they revealed it themselves. They were all alive for several years after the coup; some even still alive till today. 2) The plot to kill aquiyi ironsi failed just like the plot to free Awolowo: The officer given the job to arrest Ironsi incompetently delayed allowing Ironsi to escape and rallied loyal troops. Captain Ude flew to Calabar, got to the prisons-and was arrested at the prison. 4 Likes |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by Redcrafton: 9:16am On Jan 15, 2021 |
Grayoso: Stop this your senseless attache by force. Kaduna was from Niger delta. 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by amuwo1980: 9:17am On Jan 15, 2021 |
V7place:What the hell got into this boys to carry ur such a useless massacre 1 Like |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by kilonshele101(m): 9:17am On Jan 15, 2021 |
kettykin: They won't mind their business because they are always looking for the destruction of Nigeria, hence we will always hold them responsible 1 Like |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by V7place(m): 9:18am On Jan 15, 2021 |
Chief Remi Fani Kayode (father of Femi Fani Kayode) was Deputy Premier of the Western Region. He was arrested and made to lead the coupists to the government house. His wife called the Premier, Chief Akintola to warn him that soldiers were on the way to arrest him. Chief Fani-Kayode witnessed the killing of his friend S.L. Akintola by the mutineers, and from there he was taken to the military cantonment in Lagos where he was also scheduled to be executed by them. However, luckily for him, on arrival at the Ikeja military cantonment in Lagos, the mutineers were overpowered, overwhelmed and killed by loyalist troops under the command of Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon (who later became Nigeria's Head of State). Fani-Kayode was freed by the loyalists and kept by them in a safe house until law and order was restored in the country. ( Wikipedia) 1 Like
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Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by V7place(m): 9:21am On Jan 15, 2021 |
amuwo1980: Much as I like Nzeogwu and his boys; the massacare was in my opnion uncalled. If it was a gun fight, it would make sense, but cold bloodied killings of civilians and a woman. 2 Likes |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by CharleyBright(m): 9:21am On Jan 15, 2021 |
V7place: Brilliant perspective and well aligned post you came up with. You did your research well. But let me make a few additions. 1. Nzeogwu actually planned to kill Aguyi Ironsi in the coup. But some of the Coupist ( Likely Ifejuna) who were to carry out the operation in Lagos either fail to kill Ironsi OR deliberately tipped him off. While some record has it that Ironsi escaped from attacks in his house and hide in Police HQ, from where he fought back, other records say Ifejuna was against the killing of Ironsi and deliberately failed to carry out that order. 2. Perhaps, the Nzeogwu coup would have been widely accepted and celebrated ( the Nigerian populace were aactually angry with the massive corruption of the civilian govt) but for the fact that the coupist killed prominent Northern Officials and the highest serving Northern Military Officer - Maimalari (over 75% of the death toll was Northerners) giving it an ethnic coloration most especially as rumours began to fill out that Nnamdi Azikiwe was tipped off by the IBO and had fore knowledge of the coup and told to leave the country before the coup. These facts gave rise to mutinies by Northern soldiers in Lagos and many parts of the country. 3. Operation Damissa - was a Tactical Military Exercise in Kaduna led by Major Nzeogwu, it was strongly alleged that the Military exercise provided the platform through which most of the coupists were recruited. Fajuyi was one of the key instructors of the Military Exercise. And it has been strongly adduced that Fajuyi was arrested and killed alongside Ironsi because the Northern Soldiers were convinced he knew about the Nzeogwu coup and might have possibly instrumental to it. While many records has it that Fajuyi submitted himself to be arrested and killed alongside Ironsi, other new records and perspectives have opined that Fajuyis death can be strongly linked to Operation Damissa thru which Nzeogwu recruited the coupists. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by nku5: 9:22am On Jan 15, 2021 |
Liposure: Thats why he was so paranoid when he became Head of State. The Orkar coup was done with the aim of excising Northern Nigeria from the Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria so Abacha could never have joined them. 10 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by V7place(m): 9:26am On Jan 15, 2021 |
Col R.A. Shodeinde. From The Police Special Branch Report By this time the Colonel was awake and sitting up in bed. Mrs. Shodeinde started to cry and beg for her life. Nzeogwu assured her that they had not come to kill her but her husband the Colonel. When she continued shouting, the other soldiers shot at her legs, wounding her several times. 165. Major Nzeogwu and the others then commenced firing at the Colonel whilst still in bed, who fell down dead or dying by the side of the bed. Mrs. Shodeinde then fled from the room and ran for shelter to the servant's quarters where she remained until the attackers left. 1 Like
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Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by V7place(m): 9:31am On Jan 15, 2021 |
CharleyBright: You are 100% right. Nzeogwu was the only who carried out his mission as agreed. Ifeajuna failed in Lagos, thats why the coup failed. Just like the failure to arrest Abacha was in part why the 1990 coup failed. IBB for example knew they could [b]NOT [/b]arrest Idiagbon without a fight that would cost lives, thats why he made sure Idiagbon went for the Hajj. Buhari, they knew was a gentleman. Northerners initially supported the coup, people were happy on the streets; but in the days after the leaders began to let people know that as you rightly pointed out majority of deaths were northerners killed by Ibos ( which wasnt 100% true as some of the foot soldiers used in the North were Northerners.) 2 Likes |
Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by V7place(m): 9:38am On Jan 15, 2021 |
Akintola fought back with a gun, the Sardauna equally fought back with a gun; but the gentleman Prime Minister did not. His death was in my opinion uncalled for. He was one of the first arrested and he cooperated. From The Police Special Branch Report The time was about 0400 hrs. Major Ifeajuna drove away on to the Abeokuta road. On the way they stopped and Ifeajuna asked the PM out of the car whence he shot and killed him. When he and Okafor became certain that the PM was dead they left the body in the bush at a point beyond Otta on the Lagos to Abeokuta road. They then opened the boot of the car and dropped the body of Lt. Col. Largema near that of the PM. They then drove on to Abeokuta. On the way after Abeokuta two other soldiers in the car were dropped and told to find their way back to Lagos whilst Ifeajuna and Okafor proceeded to Enugu. They arrived Enugu at about 1415 hours and proceeded to the Premier's Lodge where they held discussion with Dr. MI Okpara, then Premier of Eastern region, after which they separated and went into hiding. Ifeajuna eventually escaped to Ghana where he was received by the former President Kwame Nkrumah who sent him to Winneba to stay with SG Ikoku. 4 Likes
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Re: January 15th 1966: The Day Nigeria Was Changed Forever By A 29 Year Old! by CharleyBright(m): 9:39am On Jan 15, 2021 |
kettykin: Records has it that Col Unegbe was killed because he had refused to support the coup. 2 Likes |
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