GenBuhari: Gen. Diya was crossed examined at the Human Rights Violation Commission (HRVIC) on the coup plan 1997 to overthrow Gen. Sanni Abacha, He bluntly denied the fact that he was part of the plan but he admitted he knew about the plan. He further explained that he was afraid of being killed by the Coup Master Planner if he revealed the plan.

He denied pleading with Gen. Sanni Abacha but was shocked to see the video where he truly knelt down before Gen. Sanni Abacha as tendered by the Lawyer.

Gen. Diya Oladipo then was appointed as Chief of Defense Staff. He was appointed Chief of General Staff in 1993 and Vice Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1994. In 1997 Diya and dissident soldiers in the military allegedly planned to overthrow the regime of Sani Abacha. The alleged coup was uncovered by forces loyal to Abacha, and Diya and his cohorts were jailed. Diya was tried in a military tribunal, and was given the death penalty.

Dudu_Negro:

1. did diya know a taping was running?
if he did not, then it cannot be called "a private meeting"; there are other persons in attendance and out of sight...... it goes back to my view that abacha had a grand plot. he had a motive and was justvwaiting for an opportunity to drop. diya was the opportunity.

2. all military regimes in nigeria, since their enthronement on us since 1966,, suffer the the burden of coup plots and coups. abacha himself has been involved in many coups and counter coups. why would he expect anything different when he sits on the throne? abacha had a motive and he was afraid ......all the members of his coup-plotting gang days had left and no one to cover loyally for him. he was paranoid and scared of the yoruba officers. he was involved in two overthrow of yoruba leadership - idiagbon and sonekan. he feared a reprisal. coup plots are trademarks of military rulers in africa and diya's plot is not an aberration and neither is it a sin or on a scale that the participation of a human rights group was needed.

the whole thing is a joke.....a circus! someone said diya should have simply got up and walked out and i agree.

birdman: ^^I know. It was irritating to see how scared Diya was in the court room when the lawyer threatened that Abacha might show up. How does a chicken like this become a general.

inufele2: Some people just like to spew rubbish over the internet because they find it convenient to do as they can hide under the anonymity it provides, in real life they are very timid. until you face a real life and death situation you cannot say this is what you'll do. All humans by their instinct will beg for their lives if they feel this could save them from an imminent death. How many the so called strong men have not cowed in the face of death? we have seen gadaffi, we've seen Samuel doe and even Saddam trying desperately to save their lives. We even know of one warlord who wouldn't even wait to face his enemies but bolted away in the middle of the night disguise as a woman just to escape from these enemies who are at least several tens of kilometres away yet his people don't see this as cowardice.

When it comes to standing for what you believe and holding forth even in the face of death, I'll give it all to Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d'ivore, that guy was ready to face death face to face not like one warlord who ironically was known to have bolted to the same city where Gbagbo took the last stand.

GenBuhari: Diya shouldn't have attended if he was not prepared to tell the truth

Ile-Ife:
Ohhhhhh damn. It took me this long to figure this user Genbuhari is Ibo. All the Obasanjo hating threads etc. damn, how did i miss this all this while.

Ile-Ife:
Ohhhhhh damn. It took me this long to figure this user Genbuhari is Ibo. All the Obasanjo hating threads etc. damn, how did i miss this all this while.