RIP

The Wya guy's story will make a great Hollywood movie.

truly terrible

Nigeria foreign policy was very assertive during his few days in office. For the very first time, Nigeria crafted a foreign policy devoid of western influence.

Though, he actively participated in almost all the coups that took place before the one that claimed his life....starting from July 29, 1966.

I talked but I changed my mind. I focus on what is on ground.

OP, that Wya's surviving son said he suspects foul play. That his mom never killed herself. He also said his uncle in the Navy died a month or so under uncertain circumstance after the government killed his dad.
So first they killed wya, a month and half later, they killed Wya's brother who was a naval officer then a few months later the mom died in a car crash. His siblings are still alive. He said she was going to visit her family members when the accident happened. He doesn't believe she killed herself.

This article should clearly answer the silly questions some Nigerians ask on why some top government officials walk around with so much security........

It's not like they are afraid of the people, it's the people the people are afraid of that is the problem,..............

Ahmeduana:
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED THAT DAY IS THAT I CAME INTO THIS WORLD!

So na ur voice I be de hear for that hospital that night. O boy, why u shout like that wen them born u?

Ahmeduana:
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED THAT DAY IS THAT I CAME INTO THIS WORLD!

Happy birthday dear

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.

Satan is also raping ojukwu and his dead soldiers for the mid-west genocide. Mumu.

Pavore9:
Now remember the movie "76".

Hi Pavore9, wrt your sig, how's Kenya compared to Nigeria? Ib terms of cost of living.

curvilicious:
Op, thanks for bringing this to my knowledge.
Thank you

why are you thanking the op for it
You want to fry beans with it

Today 13th Feb I got a favourable court judgement on a matter hanging on my neck like the sword of Damocles.

Since I don't believe in mythology, it can never work negatively for me. In fact everyday has something positive to throw at me.

tonyx4x44:
The last story is very tragic and touching. why the speedy executions? Nigeria has always been a zoo... Not a country...

Okay, jokes apart, military coup is always bloody

dfrost:


Hi Pavore9, wrt your sig, how's Kenya compared to Nigeria? Ib terms of cost of living.

Naira don devalue, 1 Kenyan shilling = N4.85.

So cost of living is higher in Kenya, Sha we have been surviving.

If it is really true that col wya was innocent. why is it that the federal government is not in a position to pay compensation to the family of the executed officer.

kayo80:
The Wya guy's story will make a great Hollywood movie.

Bros your head is there. But you can do it also.

naptu2 can do a narrative for us. Uncle naptu2 please lend us your side of the Wya's family tragedy.

Pavore9:


Naira don devalue, 1 Kenyan shilling = N4.85.

So cost of living is higher in Kenya, Sha we have been surviving.

Ya, I checked it online. The naira is of little value when you compare it to other African countries.

seeyouin2019:
I heard he was a very fetish man. That he was almost a babalawo and that gave him false confidence. No be me talk am o..

who?

austino3050:

The most tragic tale from this Friday the 13th saga was the erroneous arrest and execution of one Col. A.D.S Wya for complicity in the coup. At the time of his arrest, Colonel Wya had been the Commander of the Corps of the Artillery and an accomplished wartime hero. His story is most unfortunate because his British wife had sought even the assistance of her home government to prove her husband’s innocence to no avail. In the end, Wya was executed. Col. Wya among a host of other officers and men were later exonerated from plotting and participating in the Dimka coup. But it was now too late. Having lost all hope and sensibility, Mrs. Wya drove into a train in Kaduna killing herself and her four children. Col. Way’s disconsolate younger brother equally committed suicide at the demise of his brother.

Lies, lies and more lies. OP, learn to research instead of swallowing everything you read hook, line and sinker.

Col Wya was never officially exonerated.

His wife didn't commit suicide; she had a fatal accident in Kano on her way to see friends and died on the spot, 3 months after husband's death

She didn't run into a moving train with her four children. How could she? Mustafa, the eldest child who was 12 at the time was in Form 2 at King's College. His siblings are all alive and well. Fiona, the 2nd child wo was 10 at the time, retired from Unity Bank last year after many years of service and is into IT consultancy. Fatima, the 3rd, 8 years at the time of her father's death is a business woman based in Yola. Omar, baby of the family was 4 in 1976, and is currently based in the UK.

The younger brother who died a month after Col Wya's execution did not commit suicide. The circumstances behind his death are unclear but it isn't suicide.

Read the full interview with Mustafa Wya here: https://newtelegraphonline.com/politics/mum-didnt-commit-suicide-col-wyas-son/

sorry Col. Wya's children 4 of them are still alive. the wife had an accident in kano though but the children: Mustafa, Fiona, Fatima and Omar are still alive. https://newtelegraphonline.com/politics/mum-didnt-commit-suicide-col-wyas-son/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C6195581121

slurryeye:
There is a popular Sunny Ade song that goes

Ojo iketala Oshu Keji Odun 1976, Ojo buruku Eshu mu omi ni

Meaning

The 13th day of the 2nd month of 1976, it is such a terrible devilish day

It was a good day. Karma paid someone back in his own coin. Read your history and learn.

Nollywood will not see the story of Col. Wya to act out. Na to dey do Aki and Pawpaw upandan.

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This so called sad part is not true. Follow this lo k and read an interview with the eldest of Colonel Wya

https://newtelegraphonline.com/politics/mum-didnt-commit-suicide-col-wyas-son/

Murtala mohammed was the Devils incarnate himself. I swear, Dimka should be hailed as a hero for dispatching that cold blooded murderer called Murtala Mohammed to an early grave.

austino3050:
Do Know What Happened On Feb 13th 1976?

Friday the 13th, particularly when it occurs in February, is deemed a very unlucky day in Western superstition. For certain, a lot of people in the Europe and America have come to believe the day holds a lot of ill luck. Hollywood has even produced horror film franchises based on the theme. The superstition like many others, have been strengthened by individual claims of some ill event like a sack, divorce or accident happening to them either on a February 13th or a Friday the 13th. The word, friggatriskaidekaphobia, meaning, the fear of Friday the 13th derived its origins in Norse mythology.

Despite insufficient proof to support the ill-fated day, Friday, 13 February 1976 sticks out in Nigeria’s history as a day that brought a string of bad fortune to many in Nigeria. Nigeria’s Head of State was brutally assassinated on his way to his office on that fateful day. His unescorted Mercedes Benz car was riddled with bullets killing all four passengers including General Murtala Mohammed.

Luck also ran out on the perpetrators of the coup as it was botched by troops loyal to Mohammed’s regime. Buka Dimka, his sponsors and accomplices were summarily rounded up and shot in a firing squad weeks after the coup.

The most tragic tale from this Friday the 13th saga was the erroneous arrest and execution of one Col. A.D.S Wya for complicity in the coup. At the time of his arrest, Colonel Wya had been the Commander of the Corps of the Artillery and an accomplished wartime hero. His story is most unfortunate because his British wife had sought even the assistance of her home government to prove her husband’s innocence to no avail. In the end, Wya was executed. Col. Wya among a host of other officers and men were later exonerated from plotting and participating in the Dimka coup. But it was now too late. Having lost all hope and sensibility, Mrs. Wya drove into a train in Kaduna killing herself and her four children. Col. Way’s disconsolate younger brother equally committed suicide at the demise of his brother.

Indeed Friday, February 13th 1976 should never be forgotten in Nigeria

Mrs Wya never committed suicide or died with her children.. her car got stuck and died in an accident. There are four of the children, Mustafa, Fiona, Fatima and Omar. Fiona retired over a year ago; after years of services with Unity Bank. She is doing very well. She is in Kaduna now and into IT Consultancy. Fatima is also very okay and she is based in Yola. She is into her business.

Omar is into human resources consultancy and he has been based in the UK for over 20 years now.

DIKEnaWAR:



It was a good day. Karma paid someone back in his own coin. Read your history and learn.

Read history for what? That he partook in Biafra war massacre? Then if Karma really knows what it is doing, Yakubu Gowon that was head of the government shouldn't be alive by now. Safe me that Karma bullshiit abeg

Many officers from the middle belt states were executed for that February 13th 1976 coup detat.
The minister of defense Major General Bisalla protested his innocence till he was tied to the stakes and shot at the Bar Beach like a common criminal.

Murtala death is of no business to me

dfrost:


Ya, I checked it online. The naira is of little value when you compare it to other African countries.

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!

delishpot:


Okay, jokes apart, military coup is always bloody

Really?

All days are equal.
All days are full of illwill or goodwill of men. But God have the last say in His strings of prophecies.
Disaster or sissider, tears or stears, always happen everyday.
No matter the darkness or light all days had their luck with time.