The military coups of 1966, would degenerate into the eventual displacement and killings of some 250,000 Southerners, a majority of which were of the Igbo ethnic group, from May 24, 1966, to October 4, 1966. #HistoryVille
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Same set of people are claiming victims meanwhile they are the cause of the division in Nigeria today
IT was an Igbo coup,only the Igbo were to gain from a 'unitary' system, it is galling that to this day the Igbo, while sat in Lagos and Abuja, have the nerve to bellow about baffyland when they were the torch to the independence of the regions in Nigeria.
Now you see the true slave hunters and traders.
That is stronger tribes?selling off conquered tribal people's.
The sheer brutality of the first coup is what inspired the bloodier second one , Imagine relatives of the Sarduana waking up to a shelled house with the patriarch and matriarch bullet ridden bodies and 5 others , Brigadier Ademelegun's children being in the next room while you shot him and his pregnant wife at point blank range , what was her and her unborn childs crime in this saga while a fat Michael Okpara and Osadebey were put on house arrest . Ironsi a "supposed target" instead who should have handed over power to the civilians after quelling the coup with the help of majority of northern soldiers schedules a closed door meeting with Nwafor Orizu without the NPC led cabinet and makes an announcement that the military had seized power when there was no basis for him to do so since the coup had been foiled and surrounds himself with Igbo advisers and goes ahead to make the single most devastating policy which still haunts Nigeria to this day and does nothing to try the coup plotters and goes on an apology tour of the whole country for northerners to forgive and forget what happened on Jan 15th and expects the northerners to sit down and fold their arms as Igbo were putting in measures to dominate the whole country coz remember in past narrations of this channel on the same subject matter Zik had said in the past that " the domination of the Igbo man over the whole is all but a matter time and they have been chosen by God to be the leader of men in Africa
Whenever you come across a discussion like this its always the innocent souls that were affected shatters my heart to see them caught in the crossfire by ambitious men who want power by any means necessary . The images of easterners fleeing back to the east with nothing but clothes and their children on their backs will forever haunt me knowing full well actions of a few men led to them being hunted and slaughtered for actions they were neither consulted nor gave blessings yet some foolishness men are still championing this futile Biafran cause even if it means war which the Nigerian state will happily oblige them will undoubtedly bring forth more of these images to bear.
Well said, dear. But note:
1. It was not a group of young Northern soldiers that arrested Ironsi in Ibadan; it was MAJOR THEOPHILUS DANJUMA who was in Ironsi's entourage from Lagos as a staff of the Military Headquarters, Lagos.
2. Murtala Mohammed did not lead a mutiny. He was not in Ibadan during the murder of Ironsi. Ironsi was in Lagos.
Well done, dear.
history should be reintroduced with immediate effect.