₦airaland Forum

christistruth01:
How could Lt col Yakubu Pam have tipped off Gen Ironsi when it was Gen Ironsi himself that authorised the Changing of Gen Ademuleguns loyal guards in the middle of the night before he was murdered?

Gen Ironsi was unconstitutionally Forcefully taking over Power and refusing to Put the Coup Plotters on Trial

while he made sure Adaka Boro was sentenced to death almost immediately for the Niger Delta Rebellion

Gen Ironsi even promoted one of the Coup Plotters Which was in detention

Not to talk of Gen Ironsi’s abolishing of the Regional Autonomy Which had taken years to negotiate and establish before Independence

Lt Col Yakubu Pam who was a Northern Christian was Slaughtered by Anuforo despite all his Pleading

Yakubu Pam was the Army’s Quarter Master General he didn’t even have any fighting formations under him

Lt. Col. James Yakubu Pam was not the army’s Quarter Master General, this position belonged to Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe. Lt. Col. James Yakubu Pam was the Adjutant-General. However, Pam's sin started when he commanded the fifth battalion in Kano and was tasked to deal with Tiv riot of 1964. At the same time, C. C. Anuforo was the commander of first Recce, Kaduna. Be mindful that James was a Biron and his younger brother, police ASP was ADC to Aguiyi Ironsi.

Ofodirinwa:
Owerri is the finest city in the SE for sure, arguably the South minus parts of Lagos if you want to count that.

Sure, you could not be more correct. It has the beautiful women the creator sculpted too.

christistruth01:
How could Lt col Yakubu Pam have tipped off Gen Ironsi when it was Gen Ironsi himself that authorised the Changing of Gen Ademuleguns loyal guards in the middle of the night before he was murdered?

It was not Lt. Col. James Yakubu Pam that tipped Ironsi but the wife of Lt. Col. on her husband's arrest by team led Maj. C.C. Anuforo.

christistruth01:
Ademoyega wrote in his book that he had asked to be responsible for dealing with Gen Ironsi but he was not allowed

That was why Ifeajuna and Ademoyega had a first fight in Jail
Ademoyega said Ifeajuna Tribalised the Coup

Gen Ironsi was not support to have been spared

Check the list of those killed and who murdered them, the list speaks for itself


To add insult to injury Ironsi was seen in a meeting with Ifeajuna and others after both Gen Maimalari and the Prime minister had been killed

The bolded is another conjectural crap manufactured by the western Nigeria regional gazette of 1967. After the initial operations of January 15, 1966, the only officer who saw Ironsi was Maj. Don Okafor who traced Ironsi back to brigade of guards which he, Okafor, commanded. Unfortunately, Ironsi has taken over the command of Brigade of guards and ordered the soldiers to shoot any soldier on sight including the brigade of guard's commander. Don Okafor had to pitch a gun battle with the elements of brigade of guards in order to escape alive. When news broke Ironsi had regained the command of a military unit, Ifeajuna panicked and even ran to Ghana.

christistruth01:
Ademoyega wrote in his book that he had asked to be responsible for dealing with Gen Ironsi but he was not allowed

That was why Ifeajuba and Ademoyega had a first fight in Jail
Ademoyega said Ifeajuna Tribalised the Coup

Of course, in his book, Ademoyega was a typical Yoruba dude who claimed everything. In his book, Ademoyega was even group leader. The task to arrest Aguiyi fell on the laps of the team led Maj. Don Okafor. However, the commotion at Pam's residence tipped off Ironsi vis James Pam's wife.

YeeboMuslim: See this osu clown revising history .
Azikwe , Okpara , Osadebey and Ironsi ( yeebos ) [b]were supposed to die in the coup [/b]but they miraculously escaped grin grin
The good news is that your cowardly ancestors more than paid for their stupidity



You are not smart at all.

Please can someone tell this deluded Abobaku to shut his\her putrid mouth? How does this inconsequential dumbass know who is supposed to die in a coup? Nigeria is indeed a basket of fools.

christistruth01:
Major Anuforo Killed Unegbe And 4 others that night

Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa was Killed by Ifeajuna


It was Ironsi that Ademoyega asked to take care of but the coup leaders refused him permission

and sent him to the telephone exchange instead

Complete display of idiocy. Ademoyega was a mere coordinator of events and was not even in fatigue uniform.

membranus:
But your kinsman, Aguiyi, the big lord of the land then, protected his 7 tribesmen, the coupists, from facing the wrath of the law in Igbo solidarity.

Therefore the rest of the Igbos are by tribal association culpable of the same crime, because they did not wholly condemn this murderous act of these tribal coupists. The same way the whole Germans are counted culpable for Hitler's heinous crime, even though he is an Austrian, and that not all Germans supported him.

The ranting of housefly!!!!

Believeintruth:
Actually 3 yorubas were involved. Capt Ganiyu Adeleke, Major Adewale Ademoyega and Lt Fola Oyewole.

They were more than 3 officers of Yoruba origin in the coup.

Believeintruth:
Do you know that recent documents released by Nigerian on the activities of the SMC showed that Ironsi actually set up a tribunal to begin trial of the coup plotters by August 23rd 1966 but we know that it never happened again the panel that was to do preliminary investigations and set the stage for the trials was headed by then Lt Col Yakubu Gowon. You see the problems with Nigerians is that they don't read and most of their postulations like the one you just made now is based on Anchored Bias(which is making conclusions based on the first bit of information you have without probing further) and also Unconscious Bias(making information based on predetermined notions of someone or something) . Gowon till today has failed to explain to Nigerians where that panel document is, so that we can understand if the coup was really motivated by ethnicity or not. Two people's reports have actually given an honest unbiased report on this coup. First it was Max Siolun in his book Oil, Politics and Violence, the next is MD Yusuf's police special branch report on that coup. Which actually absolved Ironsi of any involvement. The mistake Ironsi made was he was not swift at all in dealing with the coup plotters and he wanted to unite an already fragmented country by fiat which was his blunder.

Every one of the members of fact-finding panel was a member of the July 29, 1966, coup. Capt. Baba Usman and CSP M.D. Yusuf participated in the coup of July 29, 1966.

seeyounow:


https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/16741489_217123nigeriamapprovinces0jpegd5fe5fc1_jpeg11fcefe30f9b63c9ec8dd9d9fa7afc2a

I guess the attached map shows the quality of education which only be obtained in Nigeria. You have Midwest and West Central on this map. It is like south-south.

christistruth01:
Why didn’t Gen Ironsi support Dipcherima whom the rump Cabinet has elected as Acting Prime Minister

on the advice of the attorney General ?

Why did Ironsi then insist on taking over unconstitutionally?

With nonsense like the bolded, I wonder if certain folks who navigate to nairaland had what it takes to contribute. The government was not that of NPC therefore talk of rump cabinet amounts to delusion. The government under Abubakar Balewa was a coalition type between NPC and NCNC. NPC produced the Prime Minister while NCNC produced the ranking minister. In the absence of the Prime Minister, the ranking minister runs the show. NPC was like APC of today where fools take sway. Besides, Zanna Bukar Dipcharima was even a junior minister.

T9ksy:
Professor of history, can you tell us which politician/military officer did Ademoyega murdered on that fateful morning?

Must a particular putschist kill someone in order to be honored as a member or even a ringleader of the group?

Zandena:
I can't just imagine and belief that Presidential candidate of labour party Peter Obi Pandora Ambassador would stoop so callously low by alleging that seven local governments areas in Niger state are under the control of Bandits.
This is not only lies but callous and repugnant of an unrepentant bigot who tries to score cheap political points!.
The hate-filled postulation is a filthy imagination of a corruption personified Obi is the height of political recklessness and mischief.
Obi that deliberately ignores his burning backyards in the south east and wants to quench the fire hundreds of kilometres away. Obi should tell the world how many LGAs are accessible to people in SE? Obi's speech was full of contradictions and policy fallacies that can't be found anywhere in the globe.
Today i get to really know that this Obi is an over hype individual mostly by his tribal fellows.
Peter Obi is dumbest!

Why are you twisted out of human form because Peter Obi was economical with the facts? I guess you would have been pain-free if Peter Obi had stated entire Niger State remains under siege by the bandits. Niger State not local government areas is occupied by the bandits.

codemaniacs:
unification decree abolished regions from keeping their income and revenue.. it ensured every income and revenue made by the regions go to the federal government..

Unification decree did no such thing. Ojukwu and eastern region were solely in charge of all the revenue accrued by eastern region. In furtherance of the autonomy granted to eastern region, Ojukwu refused to recognize Gowon as Head of State of Nigeria. If regional autonomy was vacated by the so-called Decree 34, would Ojukwu block Gowon as head of state and C-in-C of Nigeria? Most Nigerians seem to be brainless due to tribal pressure.

omonnakoda:
Federal civil service established by decree
Can you substantiate? Please

Yes, because the government of the day was led by the boys in Khaki uniform. Military does not legislate instead it governs though decree.

codemaniacs:
the legacy of today's Nigeria started with the Unification decree of Ironsi...

You are correct by moronic default. Unification decree centered on the uniform civil service in Nigeria which gave Nigeria grade of levels in today 's civil service. The Decree 34 has nothing to do with unitary system of government. The regional government ended in Nigeria when Gowon created the 12 states with administrators instead of governors.

christistruth01:
That is a lie


General Ironsi completely took away the autonomy of the Regions with Decree 34 of 1966

Before then the Western Region had its own busy UK embassy on great portland Street in London which had been established by Awolowo and which had to be closed down immediately after Ironsi's Decree 34 and the building was later taken over by the Federal Govt

https://guardian.ng/opinion/history-and-the-future-of-decree-34-of-1966

Idiotic nonsense capable only of Nigerians. The so-called Decree 34 was for civil service. Ironsi could have taken the autonomies of the regions yet appointed regional governors. Gowon and his follow putschists of July 29. 1966 coup ran into the headwind presented by such regional autonomy when the regional governor of eastern region refused to recognize him as the C-in-C of armed forces of Nigeria. Till this day, the federal civil service established by the so-called Decree 34 is being used. The autonomy of the regional government was dismissed by Decree which established the 12 states in Nigeria.

codemaniacs:
I'm not wrong on Akenzua...

Ojukwu was powerless and couldn't warn anybody.. Ojukwu only tried to do another coup that ended up been a civil war..

Ojukwu was not powerless hence July 29, 1966, coup was not successful. Gowon could not even venture out of Lagos to visit Benin City. If not for betrayal artists and backstabbers such as your forbearers, southern Nigeria would have been semi-paradise. The fools such as Ejoor, Adebayo and entire Yoruba and silly minorities from the southern Nigeria joined forces with Jihadists from northern region of Nigeria. I remembered deluded Akenzua attached to the ass of Gowon hoping Gowon will elevate a third-class permanent secretary to position of a minister. Akenzua supported Action Group when certain figures such as Osagie, Osadebe, Utomi, Ekwuasi and Okotie-Eboh fought for the creation of Midwestern region. The legacy of today's Nigeria is the blueprint of Gowon and the goons supported him period.

codemaniacs:
You're the one that's wrong.. Legacy of I[b]ronsi and Nzeogwu.[/b]

Ojukwu warned Gowon on the consequences of the usurpation of position of C-in-C of Nigeria when his superiors were still in uniform. At least, you were wrong on Akenzua.

omonnakoda:
Absolutely everything wrong
First it is unconstitutional and criminal;treason.
That coup is unique in many ways. It was the first and was quickly followed by another so we can theorize that if it didn't happen others wouldn't have.
The first coup is the wrongest
Second it was the bloodiest ,with a very large number of civilian deaths,these deaths were unnecessary.The deaths were Seen through an ethnic prism in the context of a brand new nation full of mistrust Ironsi fuelled the mistrust by appearing not to do justice with the coup plotters and there were reports of taunting triumphalist rhetoric from Ibo civilians in the North. Some of the allegations are similar to what It is alleged Obidients are saying or doing today It is important to enter the mood of the country at the time

What arrant nonsense!! Tell me what Nigerian government has ever done within the dictate of the constitution. Coups are criminal and treason when they did not succeed. Like anything on earth, failure does not have parents.

gidgiddy:
It does not matter if Delta State used to be part of China, what matters is if there are indigenous ethnic Igbos there

The Premier of the old Midwest Region, Dennis Nwanzu Osadebay, was once secretary general of the Igbo State Union, the group that later became known Ohanaeze. Osadebay was an Asaba man and Asaba people have never denied being Igbo just like the 95 year old King of Asaba, Obi Chike Edozien, professed to be a proud Igbo man below

At Aba now in Abia State where the Igbo State Union formed the root

codemaniacs:
Today's Nigeria is the legacy of Nzeogwu and Aguiyi Ironsi..

Akenzua didn't want the resources in his ethnic nation to be used by another ethnic nation that had majority power over his own nation....

You are totally wrong. It is safe to say today's Nigeria is the legacy of Gowon and his clique of goons. Akenzua supported Action Group when products from Edo were used support to Yoruba land under western region.

MyFlair:
Fatherless wretch get lost

It is safe to call you a glorified fool. I have learnt from my grandfather the person who tend to espouse certain vice seemed to be the operator. I can bet my last cent you are fatherless. By the way, you lacked human intellect.

BluntTheApostle:
How come there was not one single Igbo casualty?

The last time I checked though, Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe was Igbo from present day Anambra State.

Thanksful:
So today now there is no place called Niger Delta because Nzogu is from Niger Delta?

I want all those people from Niger Delta to come out and agree with you now.

There is no logical region called Niger Delta.

MyFlair:
I’m telling you as a person who have lived in agbor and you are talking about your neighbor who probably want to identify with one of the three major tribe. How old are you or you are just stupid

I could be older than your father who is stupid. There are migrants in Agbor, and I do not have issue if they claim not be Igbo.

MyFlair:
They all have their local names and want to be identified as that. An agbor is an agbor man. He’s not Igbo

I have a person from Agbor next door. His name is "Akwara" and he never told me he is not Igbo man till date. Even when his mother was still alive, she proclaimed to be Igbo. By the way, only Igbo person will understand the word, "Akwara". It is made from the palm tree.

adenigga:
Unknown gunmen suspected to be Eastern Security Network, ESN, militants have attacked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office in Imo State, killing one in the process.

DAILY POST gathered that the gunmen, who were about 20 in number, operated with two SUVs, one blue-coloured Lexus and an ash-coloured Highlander.

Dressed in ESN regalia, the shooters stormed the INEC office at Ahiazu Local Government Secretariat in search of staff distributing Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs.

The dead body of the slain guard has been deposited at the morgue.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/Gunmen-attack-Imo-INEC-office-kill-one-say-no-election-in-Biafra-land

The making of idiotic fake news. The so-called gunmen cannot be dressed up in ESN regalia yet remain unknown and suspected to be a detachment of Eastern Security Network, ESN. There are many foolish fools in Nigeria.

ElSudani:
Absolutely nothing, except that a young country was mercilessly whacked at birth and the repercussions are still being felt till today.

I agreed Nigeria was only six years old. However, when a kid acts like an adult he or she gets adult treatment. Coups are not ballroom dance.

MyFlair:
You are stupid one. Go to Asaba and called them Igbo. Practically illiterates that claim educated just because they can cram a textbook. Take your time and trace l around your country

Which Asaba?? Are they called Urhobo or Isoko? I rent a hut in Asaba.

gidgiddy:
His parents gave him the middle name 'Kaduna' because thats where he was born

"Kaduna" was not given by his parents. It is a nickname given by his contemporaries in the Nigerian Officers Cadre.