sukkot:
first gideon orkar and now nzeogwu ? walahi talahi every igbo man needs to be flogged for being a potential coupist

asha80:
nigeria's problem started way before this coup unless you guys have not read well about pre independence politicians and politics and also post independence scenario before the coup

Ugomba:
you should know that Truth is a Treason in Nigeria.

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some sense and good point to take note of ..... @tonyebarcanista what do u concur to this ?

Dindondin:
A truth spoken in a wrong manner is a treason.
I m so happy to be back from NL jail to educate you and your likes.
Let me boldly tell you that the Igbos made some costly mistakes during the time of Kaduna Nzeogwu & Ojukwu.

sukkot:
first gideon orkar and now nzeogwu ? walahi talahi every igbo man needs to be flogged for being a potential coupist

jayloms:
Oh wow! Fp already.

Well, this coup partly fueled the tribal hate we see in our society today.

I mean, how do you claim to be cleansing the society and execute leaders from a certain part of the society. Even though the intentions were good, it appeared different when it was eventually carried out.

GreatSE:


I was thinking you an Adult untill now...is this SUKKOT

So when did Gideon Orkar become an IGBO man ...na waooo we are in a mess in this country. But IGBOS shall prevail.

tonychristopher:


But at the end of the day ....we didn't regret that mistake ....nzeogwu was igbo and igbo has to watch his back

Is that a mistake

Sunnyade01:
Kaduna Nzeagu should have arrested and prosecute the corrupt leaders that were asking for 10%.

Killing them was barbaric and an insult to the entire continent on the day the prime minister was hosting AU leaders (African presidents).

Buhari/Idiagbon government only detained and jailed corrupt politicians and today some people consider him a dicta.tor.

sukkot:
no wonder he has an uncanny resemblance to that nigga omenka. omenka is from benue too. but back to nzeogwu - he sounds like a principled man but his actions do not match his speech. he is a closet tribalist. he failed to kill any ndigbo leaders who happen to conveniently be out of town when he was killing the leaders from other regions. truth be told, he is just another tribalist.

nkowaputa:


Study Nigeria and you will come to believe that the North has the highest level of corruption in Nigerian government. Just run a check. You don't kill innocent people because you want to strike a balance.

nkowaputa:


You do not know your history. The reason is because Ojukwu who was to release troops from Abeokuta to carry out the killings in lagos, refused to release them. He argued that he will not take orders from a junior officer (Nzeogu). Ojukwu was the reason the coup had k-leg.

sukkot:
ndi ara

Brymo:
I admonished every NLander to go n read why we struck?

RightBoo:

Yes he committed suicide. The world knows how the man shamefully took his own life when he got betrayed of plotting treason.

asha80:
nigeria's problem started way before this coup unless you guys have not read well about pre independence politicians and politics and also post independence scenario before the coup

ourchoice:
The only person with accurate history of this coup and the imminent cause of the counter coup.

It was Ifeajuna that spoilt things for Nzeogwu and co. Ifeajuna out of love for his elderly cousin, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe who was then the president of Nigeria....leaked the coup info to Zik who fled Nigeria on medical leave grounds to avoid being killed.

If Ifeajuna had not leaked the info to Zik, Nnamdi Azikiwe would have been killed alongside Tafawa Belewa, etc and the northerners wouldn't have seen it as a tribal coup with eastern agenda.

Nzeogwu had good intentions with the coup...he hated corruption....hated Nnamdi Azikiwe, Tafawa Belewa and co for their corrupt ways and Islamic extremism traits.

zimoni:


Yet, Nnamdi Azikwe insisted on ONE NIGERIA

Right?

jayloms:
Oh wow! Fp already.

Well, this coup partly fueled the tribal hate we see in our society today.

I mean, how do you claim to be cleansing the society and execute leaders from a certain part of the society. Even though the intentions were good, it appeared different when it was eventually carried out.

Ugomba:
If Nzeogwu is still alive, He would have been politically under South South as a Delta Igbo.
- He led the coup yet The South East Igbos did not deny him, He ran to them for help. It was part of what triggered the war.
- Had it been that the S.E Igbos denied Nzeogwu as being Igbo, it would have been Hausa/Fulani vs Anioma.
- Thats What You Call A Brother Standing Firmly by a Brother.
.. PROUDLY ANIOMA and DELTA IGBO.

Freemanan:




My dear countrymen, no citizen should have anything to fear, so long as that citizen is law abiding and if that citizen has religiously obeyed the native laws of the country and those set down in every heart and conscience since 1st October, 1960.

Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10 per cent; those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as ministers or VIPs at least, the tribalists, the nepotists, those that make the country look big for nothing before international circles, those that have corrupted our society and put the Nigerian political calendar back by their words and deeds.

Like good soldiers we are not promising anything miraculous or spectacular. But what we do promise every law abiding citizen is freedom from fear and all forms of oppression, freedom from general inefficiency and freedom to live and strive in every field of human endeavour, both nationally and internationally. We promise that you will know more be ashamed to say that you are a Nigerian


www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/50-yrs-after-january-15-1966-coup-excerpts-of-major-nzeogwus-coup-speech/


Cc Lalasticlala Mynd44

jayloms:
Oh wow! Fp already.

Well, this coup partly fueled the tribal hate we see in our society today.

I mean, how do you claim to be cleansing the society and execute leaders from a certain part of the society. Even though the intentions were good, it appeared different when it was eventually carried out.

jayloms:
Oh wow! Fp already.

Well, this coup partly fueled the tribal hate we see in our society today.

I mean, how do you claim to be cleansing the society and execute leaders from a certain part of the society. Even though the intentions were good, it appeared different when it was eventually carried out.

Ugomba:
If Nzeogwu is still alive, He would have been politically under South South as a Delta Igbo.
- He led the coup yet The South East Igbos did not deny him, He ran to them for help. It was part of what triggered the war.
- Had it been that the S.E Igbos denied Nzeogwu as being Igbo, it would have been Hausa/Fulani vs Anioma.
- Thats What You Call A Brother Standing Firmly by a Brother.
.. PROUDLY ANIOMA and DELTA IGBO.

Tycoflu:
Delta Igbo commit, South East Igbo dey suffer for am till now. Just wish SE never took him as theirs and treated him the way his people are treating and seeing us as frauds as they label us "Across the Niger person".

RightBoo:


Also in the same hand,

Awolowo doesn't have the interest of the Yoruba's at heart. That's why he left you guys visionless and committed suicide, was it twenty naira poison?

rigarmortis:



brother, read history well, the major factor that caused the war was when thousands of people were killed in the north for reasons they don't know anything about, they didn't demand for their own country until they felt they were unsafe in the old one.

picture this, someone, a military officer, from kogi whose name is bayo, kills a prince whose names is abu, now this led to a mass roit which was deliberately left unchecked where thousands of people who don't even know bayo gets killed with impunity, just because their name doesn't sound like abu.

they go home and demand they want to be on their own, that's the simplest cause of the war.

even murtala demanded that the north secede, if not for gowon who told him to calm down, after the first wave of killings, ojukwu called for the takeover of power by the most senior officer, I think his name was bamidele, the guy refused, another senior offcer from the west couldn't control soldiers from the north beneath him, who took orders from a captain of northern origin.

the next most senior was a naval guy from the west too, but murtala and co insisted that they must have the power otherwise they would secede, eventually the two most senior officers from the west relinquished their power and gowon became president , ojukwu however refused to recognise his power, plus as military governor of the east, his people, smarting from the brutal and senseless killings insisted that they wanted their own country.

the rest is history

consider the above before you apportion blames