This story only shows dat yorubas are nt coward. But will fight back if pushed to the wall

Nawa o

These are the real heroes of democracy
Not the fat cows sitting in abuja!

leke12:
Yorubas are not cowards, they will only go extremely violence for a good cause not unlike others who can do anything for religion and our oil.

OUR OIL?

leke12:
Yorubas are not cowards, they will only go extremely violence for a good cause not unlike others who can do anything for religion and our oil.

hmmm!

This is not an act of bravery but stupidity, if they had tried this in a developed nation like America, they will have no life afterwards. Hell would've been a better place for them.

Now in Nigeria people pride themselves for committing crimes. Brave people of the West.

You can't blame them, the zoo is turning the people into animals gradually and one day, when the metamorphosis is complete, the animals will tear down the zoo.

These one has same blood with Fayoae... Not like the crying general

They were used and dumped by so called June 12 politicians ..

Brave men indeed!!!

Yellow-bar sadist

I have tears in my eyebrows cos guys like this did great for this Nigeria...but what is the gain?1993 was not just a year but one to b remembered if u were born before that period u will understand what am saying...God bless u guys

My uncle was among the airforce peeps Dat died.. I remember seeing my dad crying, when d news broke out, at concord newspaper.

Habiz:
THE HIJACK


Just as the bird was up in the sky, settling for the cruise phase, the pilot announced that passengers could unlatch their seatbelts. At that moment, the four young men gave signals to each other by blinking and in a flash, they took over the craft. They were armed with guns and knives. Ogunderu led the hijack team and he recalled: : ‘I walked into the cockpit and seized the process, and then the others followed me. Two of us stood in the plane to intimidate the passengers. We took over the plane and asked the pilot to head for another country.’

From the microphone, the leader of the strike team thundered:

‘Ladies and gentlemen, this plane has been taken over by the Movement for the Advancement of Democracy, remain calm, we will not harm you. You will be told where the plane will land you.’

According to Ogunderu, one of the four hijackers, the air hostesses were visibly frozen with fear and the terror in the faces was clearly palpable. O’boy, if na you too nko…lol! Ta lo ma ri iku to ma ping? LOL! They were threatened and told not to move if they do not want to be killed. One of the passengers who was inside the aircraft lavatory kuku decided to stay locked inside until Ogunderu went inside and pulled him out of the toilet….lmao!

LANDING IN NIGER REPUBLIC AND DEMANDS

Before landing in Niger, the aircraft made attempts to land in Ndjamena, the capital of Chad, and then head for Germany but were unsuccessful. Upon being diverted to Diori Hamani International Airport, Niamey, Niger Republic where they arrived in less than two hours later for refuelling. As they were landing in Niamey, Nigerien commandoes armed to the teeth were already on ground waiting for them and they could see them from the aircraft windows.

It is amazing to know that some of those released were the Vice President of China, Rong Yiren. Then the hijackers dropped the bombshell: they would burn down the aircraft within 72 hours should the Nigerian authorities refuse to accede to their demands. Una see sey e don tey wey FG don dey enter kasala. But what were their demand(s)?

-That the Interim National Government (which they termed ‘illegal’) of Chief Ernest Shonekan should be dissolved with the abrogation of the Decree 61 that formed it and Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola be declared the President of Nigeria. They called for the ‘the trial of all those who collaborated with the military regime‘ and the dissolution of the present government.”

-They also demanded that press freedom in Nigeria be guaranteed and that General Ibrahim Babangida be prosecuted on corruption charges.

-That ‘looters’ of the economy which “included 3,000 government officials who stashed away $33 billion in Swiss accounts” be fished out and all prosecuted.

In Niger Republic, the hostages then demanded that they be given enough fuel with which the aircraft be flown to Frankfurt, Germany. But why Germany? No one knows…lol! After their release, Ogunderu later revealed that they intended to also achieve the following goals with their action:

-The probe of the September 26, 1992 mysterious crash of the Nigerian Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane in Ejigbo, Lagos where an entire batch of some of Nigeria’s most intelligent military officers perished.

-Full probe into the death of Dele Giwa, Nigeria’s foremost journalist who was blown to smithereens in October 1986 in Nigeria’s first parcel bomb attack.

You know the most interesting thing? The questions remain unanswered even decades after the events.

how come i never heard about this incident.....Great piece, nice share @op

meezynetwork:
That's is something that should have been taught in schools as history being part of our struggle to democracy

Azzin am shocked! NOWHERE. In citizenship education or social studies was this mentioned.

Neither is it a part of history students courses during my time @ uniben else I would have heard about it.

Even the rumour I didn't hear.

Shows u why naija is where it is.

Eddygourdo:
They were misguided. They operated an independent structure without concrete back. Nigeria at the time wasn't a place where idealogical battles could be fought and an sympathy received. Tyrants ruled and most parts of africa then had tyrants rruling. Hijacking a plane which needed to land in africa before their onward journey was a big mistake.

Yes. They did what they "thought" was best at that time. Naija sef.

leke12:
Yorubas are not cowards, they will only go extremely violence for a good cause not unlike others who can do anything for religion and our oil.

"Lol yoruba's has nothing to fight for, MAD there leader was from kwara , they managed to fight for a person that even rejected them.. Yoruba's the most cowardice tribe in Nigeria. ...I Can't never go on a mission and any kind with a yoruba man ..cos when the going becomes tougher They are first to quit....they discourages for the tiny reasons

Sen. Akpabio was right after all. Just look at their names.
Ajibola Ogunderu,
Kabir Adenuga,
oluwadaisi Ososanya,
Rasaq Lawal,
They like acting as mercenaries

What a good read! I thoroughly enjoyed myself and the writer wrote so well that I could imagine myself there when it happened.
I am happy they weren't killed whilst in jail as I am afraid that might have been the issue were they jailed in Nigeria.

They were brave young men though misguided and idealistically foolish.

All I can say they were brave unlike the Avengers who are busy crippling the economy

So I shld waste my time reading dis sh!t? Somebody shld post a summary of it

There are so many stories from our past that we really need to compile a History of Nigeria and publish it, a version for children included. Our elites know that the more we are kept in the dark about what happened in the past, the more it looks like no-one has ever challenged them and the more powerful they seem. We must start compiling our stories (from pre-Independence to Civil War era to now). We must learn from the past to better the future and stop living for today

abdulmutallab just took over from his kith and kin in the plane hijacking terrorism buisness.

Ndjones:
Sen. Akpabio was right after all. Just look at their names.
Ajibola Ogunderu,
Kabir Adenuga,
oluwadaisi Ososanya,
Rasaq Lawal,
They like acting as mercenaries

Hahahahahaha

One abdulmuttalab also tried repeeating the same trick some years later after these ones tried but the result was always the same. Failure

meezynetwork:
That's is something that should have been taught in schools as history being part of our struggle to democracy

Seconded, Nice history honestly have never had of this story before. @op thanks 4 the this

Long read, so they high hacked a plane to show their displeasure of the then government.what shall i say, if i am to judge it with the present happenings and the way people comments, they are terrorist. But wait, 1993 so all these started from the SW? God is watching

Yorubbers and stupidity sef, abiola wey fulanis kill like rat?

Na mehn, the gist no be here oooo

loomer:
Na every year them dey put this news for nairaland?

It is history that every Nigerian need to read about. So I support its yearly publication on social media platforms.