ALHAJI HAREM WILL HANG HIM SELF ANY TIME SOON ,WATCH OUT IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN BET THAT WITH ME 'ALHAJI HAREM IS A CRUDE AGENT OF DEVIL . HE IS A SATANIC AGENT .

alj harem:

Fajuyi felt quite safe. However, on the 25th of July, a contingent of heavily armed troops, all of the Northerners, speeded from a nearby Barracks to The Governors Lodge Ibadan. The time was about 8pm. Fajuyi was entertaining his guest, General Agui-Ironsi. The troops easily got access to the sitting room. Without being announced, they forced themselves into the sitting room. They knew their victims. Without any ceremony, they ordered General Ironsi to stand up and be searched. With no struggle from Ironsi, he obeyed. One of them began to handcuff Ironsi. Fajuyi could not comprehend what was happening. "You can't do that” he bellowed.  "Why? You keep away “The most senior officer of the troops ordered Fajuyi.  “He is my guest, and you can't do that to him right in my house” "We've come to take him away” Responded one of the officers. "Take him away to where?” "That's none of your business; you keep away and sit down”, ordered the most senior of the rebel officers. But Fajuyi continued " I am a Yoruba; and we Yorubas do not allow gangsters to kidnap our guests from our home I can't let you hurt him “Fajuyi insisted. “Very well; Yoruba man; we'll teach you a lesson. We'll take both of you, “said the senior officer as he administered a hard blow on the face of Fajuyi. Then the troops pushed him and Ironsi into a waiting Land Rover.
(J)    Both men were then driven to a nearby bush and shot. The time was only nine o’clock.

http://www.ndrm.typepad.com/

. . . and the other side of the story

Dede1:

Francis Fajuiyi was not the first soldier to confront team of coup plotters nor uttered such words because there was no time or ear to listen to such nonsensical sermon from a soldier who has no command of a broom.

The soldiers who confronted the team of coup plotters in government house in Ibadan were Njoku and Nwankwo. Andy Nwankwo even drew a pistol on T Danjuman who had grenade with the pin pulled. I had been resourcefully informed that events which took place in government house was more of a military style action than sermon reading scene depicted by this excerpt from publication of 1967 western region of Nigeria’s gazette.       

Thank you Dede1

^^

How I wish that Nwankwo had fired that pistol. They'll all probably be dead, but at least they would die with their aggressors.

Onlytruth:

This is why I hereby advocate a joint SE/SS governors forum (or Eastern governors forum if you like), just like we have Northern governors forum. I lament that most of our governors are not so politically deft. They are the most equipped to plant and nuture such thinking.
For example, NOW (that the North is agitating for a review of revenue sharing formula) is the perfect time to form this governors forum.
The forum should put the politics of the two zones beyond the reach of the Edwin Clarks and other recidivistic characters in both zones. We need to move BOLDLY FORWARD JOINTLY in Nigerian politics. If we don't, our natural resources would be declared open sesame.

[b]I wish I have contacts with any Eastern owned media house, I would have urged them to constantly publish whatever happens between the SE and SS to enable us ordinary folks follow what is going on. [/b]We cannot be pu-s-sy footing around things in Nigeria leaving room for vocal, short sighted and semi-literate sectional goons to dictate things.
I would have even advocated a strong Southern governors forum, but Yorubas have not shown themselves to be trustworthy.

So, I stick to the SE/SS forum for now.  

Which reminds me, is there currently an SE "governors' forum"? and how exactly would/does this governors' forum work? I believe I may have asked a question such as this, a while ago, but I don't remember the answer I got.

As for the bolded, I agree. Such transparency would prove very vital at this point in time. It could go a long way toward facilitating necessary collaborative efforts.

Onlytruth:

^^

How I wish that Nwankwo had fired that pistol. They'll all probably be dead, but at least they would die with their aggressors.

In this age of rationality and the internet, some of us still tend to believe in Rambotic fantasies, oh well.

Anyway one thing for certain is people involved in the events we choose to have headaches over have spoken about them and spoken about them extensively ; heres Danjuma and Col William Walbe in different ways recalling what they did and why.

www.maxsiollun./2008/05/28/the-danjuma-interview/

www.dawodu.com/omoigui36.htm

SUNDAY GUARDIAN-17th
february,2008
You were quoted as saying that
your memoirs would be one
grenade of a book, why?
You know; there are so many
versions of some the critical
events that took place over the
years in which I was involved.
Some of the versions are
sanitized; some of them are
slightly inaccurate, which I will
endeavour to correct. And in
correcting them, there will be a
few explosions. You know what
a grenade is- it explodes.
Unfortunately, for me, each
time I pick up my notes and try
to write, I have to relive some
of those very tense periods and
I am so worked up. So, what I
have decided to do is oral
history- tell the story to a writer
who’ll record, transcribe and so
on and the book will bear his
name and mine.
Will you, in the book correct,
for example, the many
stories around the coup in
Ibadan in 1966 and your
alleged role in the killing of
Aguiyi-Ironsi and Adekunle
Fajuyi?
The interesting thing about the
Ibadan coup where Ironsi was
arrested is that the full story is
already in print. If you take the
book written on me by Lindsay
Barrett, the account given there
with General ( Yakubu )
Gowon’s biography written by
Professor Isawa Eliaugu – if you
read that part of the book, the
account there of what
happened – if you put them
together, a lot of the grey areas
will be clear.
Well, you still have to clear
some speculations here
concerning your role. It is
said that you broke Ironsi’s
famous swagger stick, which
was thought to be his magic
wand. Did you? Did your
people drag Ironsi on the
road? Did you take him to
Iwo road and shoot him?
No, it is not true. What
happened was that after we
arrested him, I lost control.
Remember that I was a
complete stranger. I came from
Lagos with Ironsi as a staff in
the Army Headquarters
attached to him. I stayed in the
barracks with the Adjutant ( the
Chief of Staff of the
Commanding Officer ). I stayed
with him in his single officer
quarters. And it was there, that
at one or two o’clock in the
morning – I was in bed – when
he came and knocked at my
door. He said, “sir, do you
know what has happened.” I
said, “no”. he said there was
some trouble in Abeokuta, who
was an Igbo officer holding
secret meeting with all the Igbo
officers in the officers’ mess
and our boys went and shot all
of them.
Who are the “our boys?”
Northern soldiers. Remember,
Igbos did the killings that took
place in January (1966 ).
They killed non-Igbo senior
Army officers. Only one Igbo
officer the killed but Igbo wiped
out almost all the senior non –
Igbo officers. We rounded up all
the people, who did the killings,
because we all help Ironsi to
abort the January coup. They
were rounded up and put in jail,
where they were being paid
their full salary.
They had television, they had
everything there despite being
detained and nobody was
talking about court marshalling
them. Instead, the newspapers
including the Daily Times, in fact
Peter Enahoro, who was named
Peter Pan; in his Sunday
newspaper(wrote a column) to
the effect that The boys being
detained were national heroes.
National heroes because they
killed corrupt politicians! He
didn’t say anything about Army
officers…
they killed corrupt politicians
and replaced them with lronsi
whom we would call Iron-side
Very insulting and in my own
opinion, very provocative
article! He was saying that those
boys should be freed. Tension
started building. Riots broke out
in the North and it was because
of the riots that broke out in the
North that Ironsi started going
round to talk to traditional
rulers and the Army leaders. I
was in his convoy.
We got to Ibadan. We had a
meeting with traditional rulers
and leaders of thought at the
end of which everybody was
asked to sing the National
Anthem. We all sang the
National Anthem. In the night,
we had dinner and we came
back. We dropped him (Ironsi)
at Government House, and then
went to the barracks to stay
with the AdjutantThen, at one
o’clock in the night (there was)
gbam, gbam, gbam on my
door. I said what happened. He
(Adjutant) said there was some
trouble in Abeokuta. I said what
was it? He said the man on duty
– duty officer – saw the
Commanding Officer holding
meetings in the officers’ mess …
all the officer that attended that
meeting were Igbos. They left
out non-Igbo officers. The duty
officer called one or two
soldiers; they cocked their guns,
went there and rounded up
every body. They thought it was
a joke. One of them had his
staff machine gun by his side
and he bent down and
attempted to pick it up; they
opened up on him and shot him
down.
They sprayed everybody, killed
everybody there and started
tele phoning.
They rang Ibadan. It was then
that this boy woke me up. This
was what happened. The press
had been calling for the release
of the January coup plotters.
Now, our boys had created an
excuse for the release. After
killing these people, it is a draw
– they killed Army officers in
Lagos and all overNigeria. Igbos
did it. Now,Igbos had been
killed in Abeokuta; that’d be the
end of it. I said no. I asked the
Adjutant, who was in a position
to know, if the Supreme
Commander – at that time
lronsi was known as Supreme
Commander – had been told?
He said, no; he didn’ think so. I
said okay; he
should get me some soldiers.
He brought soldiers. I didn’t
come to lbadan with combat
dress. I had to borrow the
combat dress of an officer
about my size. It was an
American combat dress. This
officer had just come back from
the US. You know, when you
travel with the Head of state
you have to dress decently,
wear service dress and so on.
So, I borrowed fatigue, wore it.
In fact, I wore it over my
pyjamas and left with the
Adjutant. I said, “take me to
Government House”. We got
there. We asked soldiers who
were on duty to ground arms.
They all grounded their arms. I
told the Adjutant what to do.
Soldiers grounded their arms;
we disarmed them and armed
the soldiers that we brought.
Meanwhile, the anti-tank gun
(lronsi convoy) was there, the
commander was there. The
commander was from the
garrison in Ibadan. We knew
him; we told him. He said we
should use the gun to blow
down the building. I said
no,There’s no need; the Head
of State was there; we had to
arrest him. We were there and
waited. Any time anybody came
out from the building, we
arrested him. They removed
their shoes and we asked them
to sit down.
Why were you doing this?
We didn’t want any violence. we
wanted to arrest him ( Ironsi )
alive and go and lock him up.we
wanted to interrogate him, to
find out the role he played in
the coup ( January 1966 ); his
stories didn’t add up about how
he escaped from flagstaff House
where he was staying at
No.1,Glover (Ikoyi), and ended
up in Ikeja.How it came about
Njoku,who was supposed to
have handed over the
command of the largest
garrison in lagos, which was
then the Ikeja Garison, did not
handover.Njoku was still in
commandand he (Ironsi) went
to join him. We were going to
interrogate him about all those,
or at least, that was what I
thought we were
going to do.
So, every I told the soldiers to
do or not to do,they obeyed
until eventually, first,
(Adekunle)Fajuyi (Millitary
Governor of Western Region)
came out of the building after
he Waited… every time they
sent somebody out of the
building, nobody went back. So,
Fajuyi Came down. As he came
down the steps, I saluted-him-
and said; “sir, you are under
arrest; hands up’ He looked at
me and called me, “Danjuma?”
I said, “Sir, you are under
arrest.”
He raised his hands, and came
down. He said, “What do you
want?” I said,
“we want to arrest you and we
want to arrest the Head of
State.”
He said,”and you are going out
with him?” I said, “yes , .”
And you were supposed to
be on the Supreme
Commander’s
entourage?
I was;I was there. I went to
Ibadan with him. What do you
mean by,”supposed to?”
Because you were now
arresting…
Yes, I was arresting. He (Fajuyi)
pleaded with me not to go up
with armed men;that he was
going to go up and call him
(Ironsi) provided I guaranteed
his safety. I gave him my
guarantee: I said, “I guarantee
your safety.”
He went there, and didn’t come
down. So, I decided to climb
up. As I climbed up the steps,
armed soldiers followed me. I
had a grenade in my hand. I
didn’t have any arm. As I came,
lronsi was sitted; Fajuyi was by
his side.
I said, “Sir, you are under
arrest.” And I gave him the
order to stand up.
Reluctantly, Ironsi stood up. He
used to carry a staff crocodile.
He had it in his hand. They both
came down. Fajuyi was still
asking me about guaranteeing
safety. I guaranteed his safety
absolutely. So, we came out of
the building down toward the
car.
One of the soldiers said we
shouldn’t allow him to carry his
crocodile, that there’s juju. I
said no; there’s nothing in it. He
said he’d disappear if we
allowed him to carry it. He
started to stop and I told him to
shut up. That was the time I
lost control. The soldier batoned
me and pushed me aside and
took charge. To my greatest
surprise, the Adjutant, who
was, you know, these were his
troops – I was a stranger,
they were obeying me because
everything I did they liked; they
liked what I was doing, but the
moment I told them not to do
some thing they didn’t like, they
rejected – I expected the
Adjutant, who was there, to
intervene. He probably incited
them. He said,”Yes, the soldier
is right. This thing here (Ironsi’s
crocodile) is his Zasa; it’s juju
that will make him disappear.”
So, they took the thing from
him, pushed me aside and
bundled him and Fajuyi in a
vehicle and drove away. It was
six O’clock in the morning.
The front of the Government
House was littered with people
without shoes; people who had
come to get ready to go. They
asked every one of them to sit
on the floor and they removed
their shoes. They all sat,
including the then Head of
Service (Chief P Odumosu). I
came down. They (soldiers)
drove away.
There was nobody to tell these
people to go; so they all sat
there. It was I who said,
what’re you people still doing
here. Quietly, they realized they
were free to go. They (soldiers)
had driven away Fajuyi and
Ironsi.
What of you?
I had to hitch a ride to go to the
barracks. They left; there was
no vehicle even for me to leave
that place; they Just drove
away, taking them away.So, I
had to make my way back to
the barracks. If you read
Gowon’s book, it’s there. They
named names , of the people
who actually took Ironsi away.
Now, there are a lot of lies. I
read some very funny lies told
by Ironsi’s ADC whose life I
saved. He was an Igbo officer
from Abakaliki area, tall, a
good-looking chap. After the
war he came back, I saw him,
we shook hands and I gave him
some money.
I read his account. You know
we captured a lot of literature
in Enugu. The Igbos named his
account, including what
happened in Ibadan, and what
happened in the North – as
pogrom. I read all the accounts
there. It was there that I saw
the evidence given by this man
in order to … he must have felt
guilty, when his boss was
arrested and taken away and he
went away and he went home
empty-handed, without
anything even though he was
his ADC and nothing happened
to him. He had to tell a lie to
justify how he came out with
his limbs intact. He gave a long
story of how he escaped, what
happened and so on.
That man told a lot of the lies
that gained currency. Ironsi had
two ADCs. One of them was
Col. Sani Bello and the other
was this man. I prevailed on the
soldiers not to do anything to
anybody. We arranged even for
him to escape, and go away. He
went home and started telling
lies. He told a lot of lies, which I
read in the account he gave in
Biafra. We had an inquiry.
People came to give account
and so on and so forth.
Unfortunately, I didn’t keep it,
but I remember that the stories
that gained currency were from
that man.
The Adjutant created the
problem?.
He didn’t create the prob1em.
The Igbos who killed our senior
officers all over the place
created the problem; they
created the problem. They
sowed the wind and reaped the
problem; it wasn’t him (the
Adjutant). They were
reacting;they were avenging
what happened in January. The
July coup was a revenge coup.
What’s the name of the
Adjutant?
Garba Paiko!
Was he a major?
Major! He was a Second
Lieutenant.
You were his senior?
Oh yes! But when it comes to
coup-making, there’s no rank.
Coup is abandwagon of
hierarchy. This was his unit. He
knew the boys; I didn’t know
them. But he knew me.He used
me…
You’re lucky they didn’t
mistake you for an Igbo.
Oh, easily! I was lighter in
complexion than I am no. Many
times, they took me for an
Igbo.
So, he (Adjutant) didn’t
create the problem?
I don’t think you people know
what happened. What would
you do when you went to bed
and woke up and found that all
the people from your area in
the Army, innocent people were
killed in their beds, some of
them even with their wives – all
done by Igbo officers? We
bottled up this for six months
from January to July. Then, the
opportunity came for revenge.
In the Army, you are taught
that when you are fired upon,
you take cover and return fire.
We didn’t return fire
immedi¬ately. We gave Ironsi a
chance to deal with the people
who killed our seniors. He did
not. Then foolish people like
(Peter Pan) Enahoro were
talking about national heroes
¬that people who did the
killings were national heroes.
We couldn’t understand! If
politicians were corrupt, why
didn’t you confine yourself to
killing politicians? If it was
necessary that the Army should
take over, why was it that this
same Army should eliminate the
cream of that Army and leave
us With absolutely useless
people, like Ironsi who was a
desk-clerk Head of State? We
couldn’t understand it. But we
bottled this up till July and when
the opportunity came, we
decided to revenge. This is what
happened…
People blame you for what
happened in Ibadan, but as
it is, the Adjutant more or
less, instigated the soldiers,
Yes, this is what I suspect. My
suspicion is borne out by the
fact that he did not do what I
would do if I were in his
position. He (Adjutant)
approved of what the boys did.

The other link is far more meaningful, insightful and adds real flesh to the bone about what lead to that infamous night

Dede1:

The soldiers who confronted the team of coup plotters in government house in Ibadan were Njoku and Nwankwo. Andy Nwankwo even drew a pistol on T Danjuman[b] who had grenade with the pin pulled. [/b]

LMFAO , is this not the same poster who claims to have fought in a war- does he understand how ridiculous this is coming from someone who is suppose to be familiar with the weaponry of that period or any in fact? So in a pressure situation, a well educated and rational (see his tale above) officer, in control of everything, with troops, decided a pinless grenade was the way to go, Nairaland's keypad warriors :shame:

samstradam:


No, it is not true.[b] What
happened was that after we
arrested him, I lost control.
Remember that I was a
complete stranger. [/b]I came from
Lagos with Ironsi as a staff in
the Army Headquarters
attached to him. I stayed in the
barracks with the Adjutant ( the
Chief of Staff of the
Commanding Officer ). I stayed
with him in his single officer
quarters. And it was there, that
at one or two o’clock in the
morning – I was in bed – when
he came and knocked at my
door. He said, “sir, do you
know what has happened.” I
said, “no”. he said there was
some trouble in Abeokuta, who
was an Igbo officer holding
secret meeting with all the Igbo
officers in the officers’ mess
and our boys went and shot all
of them.

So, I borrowed fatigue, wore it.
In fact, I wore it over my
pyjamas and left with the
Adjutant. I said, “take me to
Government House”. We got
there. We asked soldiers who
were on duty to ground arms.
They all grounded their arms. I
told the Adjutant what to do.
Soldiers grounded their arms;
we disarmed them and armed
the soldiers that we brought.
Meanwhile, the anti-tank gun
(lronsi convoy) was there, the
commander was there. The
commander was from the
garrison in Ibadan. We knew
him; we told him. He said we
should use the gun to blow
down the building. I said
no,There’s no need; the Head
of State was there; we had to
arrest him. We were there and
waited. Any time anybody came
out from the building, we
arrested him. They removed
their shoes and we asked them
to sit down.
Why were you doing this?
We didn’t want any violence. we
wanted to arrest him ( Ironsi )
alive and go and lock him up.we
wanted to interrogate him, to
find out the role he played in
the coup ( January 1966 ); his
stories didn’t add up about how
he escaped from flagstaff House
where he was staying at
No.1,Glover (Ikoyi), and ended
up in Ikeja.How it came about
Njoku,who was supposed to
have handed over the
command of the largest
garrison in lagos, which was
then the Ikeja Garison, did not
handover.Njoku was still in
commandand he (Ironsi) went
to join him. We were going to
interrogate him about all those,
or at least, that was what I
thought we were
going to do.
So, every I told the soldiers to
do or not to do,they obeyed
until eventually, first,
(Adekunle)Fajuyi (Millitary
Governor of Western Region)
came out of the building after
he Waited… every time they
sent somebody out of the
building, nobody went back. So,
Fajuyi Came down. As he came
down the steps, I saluted-him-
and said; “sir, you are under
arrest; hands up’ He looked at
me and called me, “Danjuma?”
I said, “Sir, you are under
arrest.”
He raised his hands, and came
down. He said, “What do you
want?” I said,
“we want to arrest you and we
want to arrest the Head of
State.”
He said,”and you are going out
with him?” I said, “yes ,  .”
And you were supposed to
be on the Supreme
Commander’s
entourage?
I was;I was there. I went to
Ibadan with him. What do you
mean by,”supposed to?”
Because you were now
arresting…
Yes, I was arresting. He (Fajuyi)
pleaded with me not to go up
with armed men;that he was
going to go up and call him
(Ironsi) provided I guaranteed
his safety. I gave him my
guarantee: I said, “I guarantee
your safety.”
He went there, and didn’t come
down. So, I decided to climb
up. As I climbed up the steps,
armed soldiers followed me. I
had a grenade in my hand. I
didn’t have any arm. As I came,
lronsi was sitted; Fajuyi was by
his side.
I said, “Sir, you are under
arrest.” And I gave him the
order to stand up.
Reluctantly, Ironsi stood up. He
used to carry a staff crocodile.
He had it in his hand. They both
came down. Fajuyi was still
asking me about guaranteeing
safety. I guaranteed his safety
absolutely. So, we came out of
the building down toward the
car.
One of the soldiers said we
shouldn’t allow him to carry his
crocodile, that there’s juju. I
said no; there’s nothing in it. He
said he’d disappear if we
allowed him to carry it. He
started to stop and I told him to
shut up. That was the time I
lost control. The soldier batoned
me and pushed me aside and
took charge. To my greatest
surprise, the Adjutant, who
was, you know, these were his
troops – I was a stranger,
they were obeying me because
everything I did they liked; they
liked what I was doing, but the
moment I told them not to do
some thing they didn’t like, they
rejected – I expected the
Adjutant, who was there, to
intervene. He probably incited
them. He said,”Yes, the soldier
is right. This thing here (Ironsi’s
crocodile) is his Zasa; it’s juju
that will make him disappear.”
So, they took the thing from
him, pushed me aside and
bundled him and Fajuyi in a
vehicle and drove away. It was
six O’clock in the morning.

dis danjuma guy can lie e! 
according to him, he was just a stranger to the plot, but how come he acted with so much venom?
even in the interview he called ironsi a useless desk clerk general
he is a real coward for not accepting his role. nobody cares these days anyway so if danjuma says the truth nbobdy is interested. nigerian army is full of cowards.

re@lchange:

dis danjuma guy can lie e! 
according to him, he was just a stranger to the plot, but how come he acted with so much venom?
even in the interview he called ironsi a useless desk clerk general
he is a real coward for not accepting his role. nobody cares these days anyway so if danjuma says the truth nbobdy is interested. nigerian army is full of cowards.

Let him believe any version of his choice. All I know is that Danjuma's story sounds incredible

buha

i am an owner of nigeria i find this agreement between south south and south east quite funny tho.


buhahahaa. biafra was over populated in the 60s , i wanna see where all the millions of igbos living all across nigeria will live in their erosion ravaged rubbish dump of a land . 40 million igbos all crammed in , shitting on each other.

buhahhaa.

and u ijaws , swamp dwellers, i hope you are all ready to move back to your poo dump creeks and drink your poo water.

buhaha

^^

you too fear igbo secession! 

you can't survive without igbo.

^^^^

Actually, it would be a joyous moment, so long as you do not invade. Fine

But how come your leaders are not calling for SNC ?

re@lchange:

^^

you too fear igbo secession! 

you can't survive without igbo.

yeah

i cant survive without second hand spare parts , okrika clothes, third hand electronics , fake drugs and armed robbers and kidnappers.

good riddance , dumbo.

^^

yes you can't survive without those fake products because you can't afford the real things anyway

re@lchange:

dis danjuma guy can lie e! 
according to him, he was just a stranger to the plot, but how come he acted with so much venom?
even in the interview he called ironsi a useless desk clerk general
he is a real coward for not accepting his role. nobody cares these days anyway so if danjuma says the truth nbobdy is interested. nigerian army is full of cowards.

TBF almost everything you bolded has largley been corroborated by the second more useful link that was written in 03, five years before Danjumas interview was given. What amazes me is how rich in detail their descrptions are of events that occured over 30 years ago- they are probably still being haunted by their actions, though Danjuma is the only one who seemingly still wants to justify it.
Anyway still far better than listening to people on here with fancifully laughable stories drawn up solely to soothe and suit their bigoted psyches.

"Time Is Ripe For The Niger Delta Region To Secede From Nigeria - Ann-Kio Briggs" on YouTube -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXAiI_fEpZ8