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Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by tete7000(m): 7:19pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
Quite touching! A very emotional story. Short of words. |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by saintdennis(m): 7:19pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
Orikinla: Lols guy go and read history well... they DID NOT ABORT THE COUP.. they took over. The coup. Nzeogwu was a junior officer, a junior officer cannot take the reins of head of state in a coup unless he ASSASINATES all high ranking officers. Truth is nzeogwu was 'double-crossed" cos I still ask u #WHY he was NEVER COURT MARTIALLED talkless of executed? #WHY he wasn't outrightly executed for treason? #WHY he was transferred to ENUGU prison?? Guy read-up on naija history... 3 Likes |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by sunnyeinstein(m): 7:20pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
logicab: What happened then, is what the ibos are trying to do now. They always require a fool to achieve their selfish motives and they've always seen Yorubas as the gullible ones as the hausas already know them too well. If Ademoyega in his book thinks the three officers (him, ifeajuna and nzeogu) conceived the idea of the coup he's missing something. The ibo clan via their elites decided they deserve the power due to their high level of literacy and business acumen (they had more literate pple and the highest placed back then in the country), and since the british trusts the hausas more they needed the yoruba soldiers to support their view gullibly and seize the country. If that had happened we could have witnessed the genocide of congo back in the 60s! Instead, their plan backfired and the hausas waited and throughly treated their fuckup via gowon! (forget aburi, aburi accord was just a show for the western world, ojukwu's mind was made up already) 3 Likes |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by Izy41(m): 7:21pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
logicab:it's @ d detriment of d person cos e or she devotes al d time & energy to work no time 4rest...it's a way of trying to move on & forgetting d past anyway..it's about choice |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by logicab: 7:27pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
sunnyeinstein:Yorubas were much better educated than the Igbos at that time; though some of them would rather want you to believe the reverse. There is a reason even the Bible was translated to Igbo by Ajayi Crowther. sunnyeinstein:Gowon was a gentleman. Left to some Northerners (and even Murtala Mohammed who was originally from Auchi), the entire Igbo ethnic group would've been wiped out. 2 Likes |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by An0nimus: 7:31pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
logicab: Thing is, a good number of internet warriors don't know this. They just keep on harping about 'True Federalism'. Nigeria had some form of Federalism at some point, then some group of people thought they should consolidate power at the centre. Power is intoxicating, so when others got into that 'strong centre' we started hearing of marginalization lol. Now nobody wants to devolve power again 4 Likes |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by sunnyeinstein(m): 7:41pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
meforyou1: Nope, they simply struck while the house was empty- while they were away- simply put as a "palace coup", no need to kill anybody because nobody dey house! (although idiagbon had to pay because they saw him as the real motivation behind buhari) In the nigerian case no bloodshed but turkey's own failed that's why people died left right n centre. Also, Balewa was the real president, Zik was just figure-head. |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by Nobody: 7:42pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
Kai, did nt read it all. Bt d little i read made me fil like crying. Its so painfull. Looking @ her mum losing blood, strugling to talk. Kai. God help me not to witnes such tin. |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by MeAboki(m): 7:43pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
logica: The bastards were simply driven by tribal hatred, they couldn't stand anyone but themselves at the helm of affairs; so they engineered the coup and tried to justify it by labelling the government corrupt; yet by the time of their deaths, neither Balewa nor the Sardauna had more than one house and a small farm each with hardly any money in their bank accounts. The Sardauna's wife was also the first female victim shot in cold blood by the merciless traitors. I was once privy to a rare picture of Nzeogwu's body after he was killed in battle, noting that he probably might have suffered excruciating pain at the point of death because half of his body was charred and mutilated with burns. Hope he and his cohorts rot in hell for derailing our nascent democracy on the flimsiest of excuses that this and many generations still unborn would continue to have to pay for. 3 Likes |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by EZEBEL: 7:43pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
rhymaster: A lazy bone Yoruba goat on sight. the last time I checked Ibos wanted biafra more than anything but for the fear fear tribe who cannot survive one week after Nigeria breakup. 1 Like |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by petitejolie(f): 7:48pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
there is nothing heroic about d Nigerian army coup plotters nd power hijackers. there reign did not even bring d desired change but further plunged d nation into deep shit. even the ones that came back as president and appointees didn't do extra ordinary. they are the genesis of Nigeria's problem. selfish people 1 Like |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by sunnyeinstein(m): 7:49pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
logicab: Yes, murtala is ruthless but he wouldnt have allowed Ojukwu to go to war for the issue to be resolved. He'd rather have ojukwu and other top ibo soldiers executed for nothing than kill an entire race, that was how commanding he could be (according to history oo, i no dey dia ooo). Gowon smiled and laughed with ojukwu but systematically pushed him to war, knowing ojukwu's mind was almost made up and the time for full-scale hausa retaliation beckoned! |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by meforyou1(m): 8:13pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
sunnyeinstein:was asking the guy that claimed that Zik was aware of the coup that's why he went on vacation. |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by Newmanluckyman(m): 8:15pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
No matter how unpopular and autocratic the govt of the day was, the use of military coup to change the govt is simply crude and unacceptable. Having said that, a military coup is a military coup. There is nothing like an 'igbo man coup', 'yoruba man coup', or an hausa man coup. Though the incidence of January 1966 was very unfortunate but what was more tragic was when that coup was tribalised which finally snowballed into a fiery burning forest. Till date, tribalism still remains the bane of our society. Similar coup have taken place in the country after the 1966 saga and nobody or group has ever tribalised it to be a coup from a certain tribe of the country. So why 1966 coup? |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by johntolu: 8:17pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
Oceemo:[color=#000099][/color] Point of correction, Gen. Gowon did not in any way, abuse, or commit any act of genocide, against the Biafrans, before or during the Nigerian civil war. That accusations should be pointed at Late Gen. Muritala Mohammed, who openly threatened Igbo officers, of the plans by Northern Nigerian officers, to carry out a counter coup 'in day time', as opposed to the January, 1966 coup that was carried out in the dead of night. He was actually the master mind of the July,1966 counter coup and was alleged to have committed war crimes against civilian population during the Civil war. |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by luluosas(m): 8:19pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
Thank God you have forgiven the perpetrators of that wicked act and moved on already. Take heart |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by blackprowler: 8:43pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
logicab: You're very emotional, opinionated on this issue. That's the problem with Nigeria: people don't approach a discussion to improve themselves or find a solution, but to win. What do you think a soldier's job is? To make tea? I've been reading about this issue since 1985 and I've read all sides and I've always had a scientific quality of an open mind. Do you know how many people Benjamin Adekunle "killed" in same manner as Nzeogwu? You need to check your civilian sensibilities at the gate when discussing military matters as it's a parallel world. To harden your heart and cope, I suggest you watch old movies of WWII and the Holocaust. As I said previously, those women were in the way and were accordingly shot. They were absolutely of no material objective to the attempted coupists. Abi I neva blame Ibo reach? |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by johntolu: 8:46pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
Orikinla:[color=#000099][/color] I agree with you that Yoruba officers participated in the January, 1966 coup d'etat, but I doubt if they would have participated if they have an insight that, Chief S.L. Akintola, Gen. Ademulegun, Col. Sodeinde and other Yoruba military officers would be murdered by their fellow Igbo co-conspirators, who went ahead to spare all military and political leaders from the Eastern Region of the country then. 1 Like |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by Dajugba: 8:49pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
midasbliss: really, sorry about that. Doe it really emotional, even while I read through. It also showed we had just military men who went extra length in pain to secure her nation. |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by aalangel(f): 8:56pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
Nairaland promoting tribal war by pushing this to front page. No nose for News. |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by blackprowler: 8:59pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
Newmanluckyman: It is because you don't know that you talk like this. First coup was Igbo coup, every other coup has been by Northerners; only Igbo and North have ever carried out a coup in Nigeria. Igbo is the one that gave "Hausa man" the power he wielded for a generation until Obasanjo balanced it a bit. It is Igbo that makes me and you to be suffering in Nigeria today by allowing military force to enter politics. It is Igbo and I don't care if you are one. If you think ever last Igbo went for the meeting to conspire to make a coup, then YOU have to have your head examined. That doesn't stop it from being an Igbo coup. Afterall, all those Igbo market people mocking Northerners IN THE NORTH for the death of Sardauna didn't attend any coup meetings either but enjoyed the "glory" of their brothers. Till today the Igbos are still clannish, sectional and hate their fellow Igbos who elect to be Nigerian than Ibo (eg Ezekwesili, Utomi etc) 5 Likes |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by tunjilana: 8:59pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
Hagm0nd: How I wish I can do a million likes for this. Yorubas are not impulsive or overtly emotional...More rational, calculative and always trying to be on the right side of history politically in Nigeria, putting values before materialism 5 Likes |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by johntolu: 9:00pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
[color=#000099][/color] blackprowler: You could not have said it better, my brother. The January, 1966 coup was a big blunder on the part of the master minds and the beneficiaries, which was Gen. Ironsi and the Igbo nation. 3 Likes |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by tantan: 9:04pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
IGBO people are the cause of hatred and disunity in Nigerians and still are the most unfriendly to date. please let's give them Biafra so that Nija will prosper. 6 Likes |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by babsnuel(m): 9:11pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
rhymaster:dude calm down..I am Yoruba but one of the major coup plotters was Adekunle Fajuyi..a Yoruba man and d minister of finance den was also an Igbo man |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by logicab: 9:16pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
blackprowler:Ogbeni, I doubt that you've watched enough Holocaust, WW2 etc movie or know enough about these subjects as I do. And no, I am not emotional. Now, you tell us how many Benjamin Adekunle killed in like manner since you were keeping count. Not that I'm bothered for an answer, really. 2 Likes |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by Kaysalas(m): 9:19pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
Hmnnnn! Touching!! |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by johntolu: 9:20pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
[color=#000099][/color] Orikinla: Orikinla, I think it is you that should stop being childish on this issue. Don't tell me you believe the 'cock and bull' story about the coup being planned to release Chief Awolowo from prison. The Awolowo bait, if it was ever real, was used by the Igbo officers to lure the unsuspecting Yoruba officers into their evil plans. 3 Likes |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by logicab: 9:23pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
Newmanluckyman:Wrong. 1976 Dimka coup was widely recognized as a "Middle Belt" coup. There was a reason why Danjuma refused to become Head of State when he was offered; it was a poisoned chalice. He had the wisdom of hindsight having witnessed what happened to Ironsi at close quarters. 3 Likes |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by logicab: 9:24pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
babsnuel:Which Minister of Finance? Okotie Eboh was Igbo? 3 Likes |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by Newmanluckyman(m): 9:32pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
logicab:... This is the dysfunction I am talking about. Is 'middle belt' the name of a tribe?. Is totally wrong to tribalise sensitive issues. A coup is a coup it doesn't have to be viewed with a tribal lenses. |
Re: I’m Happy I Witnessed The Killing Of My Parents-– Ademulegun's Daughter by Newmanluckyman(m): 9:34pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
logicab:... This is the dysfunction I am talking about. Is 'middle belt' the name of a tribe?. Is totally wrong to tribalise sensitive issues. A coup is a coup it doesn't have to be viewed with a tribal lens. 1 Like |
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