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Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by Kissiemu(m): 5:03pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
LEXYLOV:You have said it all. In the first few months of his regime IBB was paranoid with betrayal n counter coup. Mamman Vatsa was set up. Just gossip n hear say. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by ASPIREX: 5:17pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
koning: Better remain silent and be assumed a fool than make utterances that take away all doubts about your stupidity. |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by Blackking98(m): 5:32pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
Eastlink:My mother is a Calabar woman so I'm as much a Calabar man. Mention the efiks that have Igbo name's let's hear. |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by JAMO84: 5:40pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
PlayerMeji:Was IBB not Buhari's friend before he planned a coup to usurp him? |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by ylaa(f): 5:59pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
Amen n Amen. He couldn't have a rethink n pardon him? Hmmmmmm soja people quote author=BlowYourMind post=92913253]The same IBB killed him, GOD deliver us from enemy like friend[/quote] |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by ylaa(f): 6:04pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
Ibb killed so many people even thief person wife come turn am to Muslim. |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by TheAviator: 6:13pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
LEXYLOV: Sir, you have also misinformed here. While Vatsa truly took some heroic steps after Dimka's speech, Vatsa didn't solely counter Dimka's coup as you implied. Vatsa was commander in Calabar, and only made a broadcast there to condemn the coup and dissociate his unit from the coup. It was IBB and then Major Igbokwe who went to the radio station to dislodge Dimka (on Lt. Gen. Danjuma's orders), thereby countering the coup. Igbokwe himself has said it that Babangida instructed him to mobilize the tanks that they used to counter the coup, and he complied without hesitation. IBB and Igbokwe's actions countered the coup. I am surprised that someone who is giving the impression of being above 40 years subscribed to the ridiculous conspiracy theory that IBB conspired with Dimka to escape. Very funny and petty theory. |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by Kubernetes: 6:41pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
Openbusiness: Murtala proclaimed the creation of Abuja in 1976 for variy reasons amongst which is Security.When Shagari came in 79, construction started. |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by sunnyp20(m): 7:09pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
God bless you for this. People are making out IBB to be the bad guy when it was his friend who betrayed him. I would have burnt his corpse if I were to be in his shoe. PlayerMeji: |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by Gee64: 7:10pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
International Bad Boy? |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by Kubernetes: 7:19pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
Vatsa was childhood friends with Ibrahim Babangida and both men were peers who attended the same educational institutions. Like Babangida, Vatsa attended the Government College Bida from 1957 to 1962 and started his career with the Nigerian Army by enrolling in the Nigerian Military Training College (NMTC) on 10 December 1962. Vatsa served as Commandant of the Nigerian Army School of Infantry (NASI) 1979 to 1983. He developed the Special Warfare Wing and established the doctrinal basis for the establishment of the 82nd Composite Division of the Nigerian Army in Enugu, he was instrumental in naming the Division "82nd Div" after the 82nd West African Division in Burma.During the latter part of President Shehu Shagari's government, Vatsa was appointed Quarter-Master General (QMG), the post he held until the coup of December 1983. He was on leave during the Buhari coup against Shagari and did not take part. In 1981, when Cameroon soldiers shot and killed five Nigerian soldiers in the disputed Bakassi area, then Brigadier Vatsa was named the Commander of the Joint Military Task Force during the massive border mobilization along the entire length of the Nigeria-Cameroon border. Vatsa developed the operational plan of attack through Garoua in northern Cameroon, which was approved in principle by the National Defence Council, pending the outcome of diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis. During the 27 August 1985 Babangida take-over, General Vatsa was in Mecca with Major General Tunde Idiagbon on pilgrimage. As of the time of his arrest in December 1985 on suspicion of conspiracy to commit treason, he was the Federal Minister for the Federal Capital Territory. He was a member of the AFRC, Federal Executive Council and occasionally, the National Council of States, the only military officer, other than the C-in-C, to be a member of all three ruling bodies. On 5 March 1986, he was executed by the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida (who was his childhood friend) following a military tribunal conviction for treason associated with an abortive coup |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by PlayerMeji: 7:23pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
Good question, that the reason one cannot make IBB more devious than Vasta his friend. Both wanted power but only one could wield it. If Vasta had succeeded, it would have been IBB's neck on the gallows. I am sure the story of Thomas Sankara comes to mind, he was one of Africa's revolutionary leaders that was on his path to turning Burkina Faso into a world power. He was warned several times of his childhood friend's ambition, Blaise Compoare that he was planning to kill him but he trusted him so much till Blaise organized the coup that killed him, in fact he was singled out and assassinated. That was 1987, Thomas Sankara is gone, Blaise Compoare is still alive till date. It's a kill or be killed world... JAMO84: 1 Like |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by Okudiover(m): 7:53pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
Wiseandtrue: Was it IBB that arrested MKO or was it Abacha? Indomine generation get your facts right. |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by Wiseandtrue(f): 8:06pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
Okudiover:Wetin dey do this one O ye Methuselah generation 1 Like |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by SirBunky85(m): 10:42pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
Artiiclebeast:silly submission |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by basybasy: 11:02pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
TheAviator:I don't know how Babangida will account before God for bad and worst things he did in life. Today, he has become useless but all innocent bloods he wasted will wait for him afterlife. What is life? this is all about temporary and vanity. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by padi94(m): 11:08pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
Coimat:Need size 45-46 |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by Dedetwo(m): 11:46pm On Aug 17, 2020 |
LEXYLOV: Who threatened who and for what reasons? Who mobilized his battalion from east? It did not take a battalion of soldiers to flush Dimka out of the radio station in Lagos. |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by ikingsleyogid: 1:05am On Aug 18, 2020 |
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Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by Liposure: 9:31am On Aug 18, 2020 |
dangermouse:but to be fair, IBB too committed treason. Only that he succeeded |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by dangermouse(m): 9:37am On Aug 18, 2020 |
Liposure:Had he failed in overthrowing the buhari led regime, he would surely have been executed. |
Re: Ibrahim Babangida Laughing At Mamman Vatsa's Wedding In The 60s (photo) by Ghokes(m): 1:58pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
IBB was left with no other option(s) but to do...otherwise there would be breakdown of law and order, he would also be seen as a weakling on uniform |
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