Katsumoto:




Correction, there was one non-Igbo plotter, Ademoyega.

henry101:

Dnt be a liar.

Who were these men and why were they detained?
Lt. Fola Oyewole
Capt. Ganiyu Adeleke.
Lt. Olahimefun.

Also, why do you react so fast to discredit Ademoyega when He said It's not an Igbo coup. Are you more Yoruba than him or were you involved in putting off the coup?

Negro_Ntns:

I know katz,

But what does it matter if the numbers were even Yoruba/Igbo and latter diverted the plan meant to be broad into spot-assasination?

Its the principle, not the number. But I'm with you on the ratio.

Reminder to Igbos who offer Ademoyega as a buffer for their culpability, I want to share with you that the reprisal was for the end result and not for the plan.

Katsumoto:

I apologise in advance but it appears that you have issues with comprehension. They participated in the coup in so far as they were following orders. They were not involved in the planning of the coup. If you bother to read any of the articles or books on the coup, then you will ascertain that[b] many[/b] of those involved in the execution were unaware they were partaking in a coup until the final hour. Are some of you so bent on including others that you ignore the obvious? I have already given an example of a Yoruba soldier that was killed by Nzeogwu for not following orders. If I am wrong, then I challenge you to produce any literature that lists the three soldiers above as coup planners.

You were expecting Ademoyega to say anything different?

Relax101:

Do you please have a list of the "many"?

ndu_chucks:

^^^+100

It is abundantly clear to us that these known NL revisionists would go out of their way to obfuscate their culpability in the issue at hand with unimportant information, such as the number of Igbo participants in the coup. Its a dumb attempt on their part, to shift the focus from the end result, to the plan itself. We are not fooled once again.

They want to bury their heads in the sand again. duk dan tselewa, Rakumin daji. lol, mo ti wound won pelu ebu!

alj harem:

relax 101 are you alj harem

Relax101:

No still henry101.
henry101 cant sign in now.

alj harem:

henry101 is alj harem, fact

Relax101:

Do you please have a list of the "many"?

Relax101:

No still henry101.
henry101 cant sign in now.

seanet02:

God bless Katsumoto!

Relax101:

Where do you put John Atom Kpera from Benue who was from the former north province?

seanet02:

God bless Katsumoto!

Katsumoto:

Operation Damissa (NMTC Training exercise) finished at approximately 1.30 AM on the morning of the coup. After the completion of the coup, Nzeogwu (training officer) called a meeting in the bush with the officers involved except for those in field battery NAA. Those that attended believed they were going to discuss the training exercise. Nzeogwu then informed them about the situation in the country and that they were about to be engaged in a coup. He then proceeded to tell these officers their tasks that morning of the coup. 2nd Leuitenants that were present were

Kpera
Ileabachi
Ogoegbunam Ibik
Okafor
Ezedima 
Eghagha
Waribor
Omeruah

Not everyone that participated in the coup was arrested. I believe that the Army decided to either arrest or release based on involvement. I believe that those who could prove that they were following orders or were used for mundane tasks such as setting roadbloacks, manning radio stations, etc. weren't arrested. This is why their names are included in the official special branch report but missing from the list of plotters.

Amen

houvest:

@ katsumoto. I do agree with you about the benefit of new info and that it gives clearer picture of those events but the issue is which info and from what source? New info can be helpful but can also be doctored to support the views of the provider. If you believe that max accounts are credible? It still beats me that you refuse to accept his evidence that the jan coup had no ethnic agenda. It beats me further why you keep presenting ademoyega as a pawn when the man who just died recently and at 74 and with the benefit of all the new info never ever changed his story as one of the 3 ring leaders of jan 66 and even went ahead to document his stand in a trilogy for posterity. Please help us with links to support your assertions over ademoyega's books.

henry101:


Now you have stated what you feel is right and correct to suit you. There are different accounts to what you just wrote but I wont be "quoting" and "unquoting" this time. Anyways nice try.

Katsumoto:

Bear in mind that there is a distinction between those involved in the planning and those involved by circumstance.

Majors
Ifeajuna
Nzeogwu
Okafor
Anuforo
Chukwuka
Aghaya
Onwuatuegwu
Ademoyega
Chude-Sokei
Obienu

Captains
Gbulie
Nwobosi
Oji
Udeaja
Ude

Lieutenants
Oyewole
Adeleke
Ezeigbo

Second Lieutenants
Azubuogor
Nwokocha
Ojukwu
Onyefuru
Igweze
Egbibor
Olafimihan
Ngwuluka
Nweke
Ikejiofor

NB. Major Aghaya was also arrested but his involvement remains indeterminate. He wasn't involved in the execution but he was aware of the coup

If you had the list of the plotters, what was the point in asking for it?

EzeUche:

All problems could be traced to the crisis in the West. The North's use of Akintola to frustrate Awolowo created a crisis that struck the First Republic in a way that crippled the nation. That is not a lie. As much as you wish to deny that fact, the crisis in the West  began to spread to other regions. There is a reason why the term Wild Wild West came to be known for the former Western region.

lagcity:

thanks a lot ezeuche, i threw you a bait and you caught it. this was necessary because i knew you wouldn't be upfront if i brought up the meddling in western politics at first. the North didn't use Akintola, bello's NPC and Zik's NCNC used akintola as fifth column. Bello and Zik were very scared of AG and its radical members. thus they decided to throw a wrench in the AG. so Zik and bello's meddling in the politics of the west caused the wild wild west. if they had just minded their business, there wouldn't be wild wild west. scholars have already concluded on this issue that NCNC and NPC were very strange bed fellows: they weren't really seeing eye to eye and it was a marriage of convenience. these two parties joined together all because of fear of the AG. npc saw ncnc as the lesser evil and vice versa. please ezeuche, don't take my word for it. be intellectually honest enough to ask ppl who actually know this stuff. when i get the time, i'll give you a list of professors from the mid-west and eastern region who told it like it is. no sentiments please. i still have my question for you; was coup and unnecessary bloodshed the perfect solution to the wild wild west?

Chyz*:

This guy, you are a funny dude. You know that? Lol. If Aghaya was one of the Majors and was "aware" or the coup, that means he was involved in it. He's no less guilty then the others. Another thing @ the bolded in red, where exactly were those people from? Or which region were they from?

Katsumoto:

You are yet to make the point you were trying to make initially now you are jumping onto another issue. The fact is that you can not convict someone without evidence. Aghaya's name is only there because he was suspected. Without evidence, he was released. The same with other junior officers. You keep focusing on silly and irrelevant points. Do you have any evidence to suggest that Aghaya was part of the plot. At least, there was evidence linking Obienu and Chude-Sokei to the coup. I am going to start ignoring you because you bring nothing to a debate other than constant idiocy. You are asking me where Ademoyega and Ifeajuna are from; Ifeajuna is from Kano and Ademoyega is from Cameroon. I hope my sarcasm is not lost on you.