About LATE COL. IBRAHIM TAIWO

Colonel Ibrahim Taiwo (died 13 February 1976) was a Military Governor of Kwara State from July 1975 to February 1976 during the military regime of General Murtala Mohammed. He assisted in establishment of the University of Ilorin, which was founded by decree August, 1975.

Taiwo was born in Wushishi, Niger State to the family of Adeosun and Emily Taiwo. He was brought up in Kagara and was sometimes called Ibrahim Kagara while he was in school. Taiwo's father was of Ogbomosho ancestry. Ibrahim Taiwo was educated at Senior Primary School, Minna, Bida Middle School, and briefly attended the Provincial Secondary School, Okene for his Higher School Certificate.

Military career

Taiwo joined the military in 1961, he started military training at the Nigerian Military Training College, Kaduna and also attended Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot. While in the army, he served as a mechanical transport officer, Officer Commanding 2 Brigade Transport in Apapa, Staff Captain, Army Headquarters, Lagos, Officer in charge of 8 Brigade, Asaba and then Officer in charge of the Transport Company, Kaduna. During the Civil War, he was head of the transport and supplies division of the Nigerian Army.

Participation in the Nigerian Counter-Coup of July 1966

Taiwo, then a Captain with the Lagos Garrison in Yaba, was one of the many officers (including 2nd Lieutenant Sani Abacha, Lieutenant Muhammadu Buhari, Lieutenant Ibrahim Bako, Lt Colonel Murtala Muhammed, and Major Theophilus Danjuma among others), who staged what became known as the Nigerian Counter-Coup of 1966 because of grievances they felt towards the administration of General Aguiyi Ironsi's government which quelled the 15 January 1966 coup.

During the Nigerian Civil War, Taiwo was one of the key figures in the Asaba massacre. He was the principal actor who ordered thousands of defenceless indigenes be gunned down in an execution style. This is Nigeria's greatest recorded genocidal act during its civil war.

Participation in the Nigerian Military Coup of 1975
Taiwo played a central role in the coup that ousted Yakubu Gowon and brought Murtala Mohammed to power, under cover of his Supply and Transport duties in the army, working closely with Lt. Col. Muhammadu Buhari.

Casualty of the 1976 Military Coup

Colonel Ibrahim Taiwo was murdered on 13 February 1976 during a failed coup in which the then Head of State Gen. Murtala Mohammed was also killed. General Olusegun Obasanjo was later appointed as Head of State keeping the rest of Gen. Murtala Mohammed's Chain of command in place.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Taiwo





The ASABA MASSACRE

The Asaba Massacre occurred in early October 1967, during the Biafran War, fought over the secession of Biafra (the predominantly-Igbo, former Eastern Region of Nigeria). Asaba (Igbo: Àhàbà) has an interesting ancestral lineage(its origin is linked to Ugboma, Ezeanyanwu, and Nnebisi) though linguistically Igbo, it was never part of Biafra. The people of Asaba typically identify as Anioma.

In August 1967, three months into the Biafran War, Biafran troops invaded the Midwest Region, to the west of the River Niger. They spread west, taking Benin City and reaching as far as Ore, where they were pushed back by the Nigerian Second Division, under the command of Col. Murtala Muhammed.

The Federal troops gained the upper hand, and forced the Biafrans back to the Niger, where they crossed the bridge back into the Biafran city of Onitsha, which lies directly across from Asaba. The Biafrans blew up the eastern spans of the bridge, so that the Federal troops were unable to pursue them.

Massacre

The Federal troops entered Asaba around 5 October, and began ransacking houses and killing civilians, claiming they were Biafran sympathisers. Reports suggest that several hundred may have been killed individually and in groups at various locations in the town. Leaders summoned the townspeople to assemble on the morning of 7 October, hoping to end the violence through a show of support for "One Nigeria." Hundreds of men, women, and children, many wearing the ceremonial akwa ocha (white) attire paraded along the main street, singing, dancing, and chanting "One Nigeria." At a junction, men and teenage boys were separated from women and young children, and gathered in an open square at Ogbe-Osowa village. Federal troops revealed machine guns, and orders were given, reportedly by Second-in-Command, Maj. Ibrahim Taiwo, to open fire. It is estimated that more than 700 men and boys were killed, some as young as 12 years old, in addition to many more killed in the preceding days.

The bodies of some victims were retrieved by family members and buried at home. But most were buried in mass graves, without appropriate ceremony. Many extended families lost dozens of men and boys. Federal troops occupied Asaba for many months, during which time most of the town was destroyed, many women and girls were raped or forcibly "married," and large numbers of citizens fled, often not returning until the war ended in 1970. The total death toll during early October was in excess of 1,000, although the exact numbers will likely never be known.

Suspect
I.B.M. Haruna has sometimes been named as the officer who ordered the massacre, following a report of his testimony to the Nigerian Human Rights Violations Investigations Commission, known as the Oputa Panel.[1] This article quoted him as claiming responsibility (as the commanding officer) and having no apology for the atrocity. However, Haruna was not present in Asaba in 1967. He replaced Murtala Muhammed as C.O. of the Second Division in spring 1968.

In October 2017, the Asaba community marked the 50th anniversary of the massacres with a two-day commemoration, during which the new, comprehensive book on the massacre, its causes, consequences, and legacy, was launched: "The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War," by S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli (Cambridge University Press). This book, which draws on interviews with survivors and military and government figures, as well as archival sources, discusses how and why the massacres happened, and the impact of this community trauma, decades after the event.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asaba_massacre

Who is Brigadier General AI Taiwo?

He is the son of the late Col Ibrahim Taiwo and the officer of the Nigerian Army who testified before the Lagos Judicial Panel on the Lekki shootings.

Lalasticlala
Mynd44

Like Father like son.

Hmmmm


Where is the story going?

KevMitnick:
Like Father like son.

hmmm asaba massacre and lekki massacre. family of masscre

State sanctioned murder linking father and son!

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Hmmmmm,,, owo eje

things like this are better left in the past but reasons best known to human emotions keeps making it hard to forget....

The zombie legacy of a father undilutedly passed down to a rascal zombie son.

How true?

The apple does not fall far from the tree

Ok

No wonder the blood still runs in them.Like father like son.Familly of blood "shedders" and killers.They came in hail of bullets.They also go in hail of bullets.

Handsome evil.

The apple does not fall far from its tree. Family of massacre n mass murder.

Reelz:
The apple does not fall far from its tree. Family of massacre n mass murder.

at all cursed generation

They will also die the same way they kill others.


Now you all know the evil mans family and tribe, we can register it in our diaries for generations to read.

Did Uk Sanction Them After Such Evil?

Continue Deceiving yourself That White Men Will Save Nigeria

daewoorazer:
About LATE COL. IBRAHIM TAIWO



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Taiwo





The ASABA MASSACRE



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asaba_massacre

Who is Brigadier General AI Taiwo?

He is the son of the late Col Ibrahim Taiwo and the officer of the Nigerian Army who testified before the Lagos Judicial Panel on the Lekki shootings.

Lalasticlala
Mynd44

You forgot that your rag-tag biafran soldiers also murdered, maimed, raped and robbed in Benin and Asaba before the Nigeria Army came.

Or maybe you remember, but you just love to play the victim as usual?

dollarstays:
things like this are better left in the past but reasons best known to human emotions keeps making it hard to forget....

The massacre caused by the igdis before the Nigeria Army came is still fresh in the mind. Both sides are guilty at the same time

dollarstays:
things like this are better left in the past but reasons best known to human emotions keeps making it hard to forget....

How can they forget when the perpetrators haven't been judged or better still apologized for the crime committed. If it was you will you forget?

oguns222:


You forgot that your rag-tag biafran soldiers also murdered, maimed, raped and robbed in Benin and Asaba before the Nigeria Army came.

Or maybe you remember, but you just love to play the victim as usual?

According to yoruba media.. where is the evidence that igbos in killed their brothers in Delta.. yorubas are the only ones spreading such lies..

Village Biafran soldiers thinking they could take on the Yoruba nation, this is a fact " the Igbos lost that war when they decided to invade Yoruba land through ore, because they already conquered benin which is not part of Yoruba land. If they had kept there fight with the north, there is the probability of them winning.
The Asaba massacre was actually unnecessary, but people commit different attrocities during war e.g the Jew cleansing program, That is the Bad side of War.

cashkid18:

According to yoruba media.. where is the evidence that igbos in killed their brothers in Delta.. yorubas are the only ones spreading such lies..

You are just a senseless child with zero knowledge of history. Even ordinary Wikipedia reported it.

Go to this link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest_Invasion_of_1967

In case you are too mentally lazy to read, which I suspect you are, check the screenshot below.

oguns222:


You are just a senseless child with zero knowledge of history. Even ordinary Wikipedia reported it.

Go to this link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest_Invasion_of_1967

In case you are too mentally lazy to read, which I suspect you are, check the screenshot below.

How did okonkwo became governor? with that name i don't even think he is benin.

Efulefus should memorise this massacre and receive sense

so, in essence you're saying massacre runs in the family?

Ok

oguns222:


You are just a senseless child with zero knowledge of history. Even ordinary Wikipedia reported it.

Go to this link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest_Invasion_of_1967

In case you are too mentally lazy to read, which I suspect you are, check the screenshot below.

From wikipedia .. dude, Are you being serious here or you are trying to be funny

You may fall for their deceit if you reason like them

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They dominates this platform, they are agents of destruction.