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NWAFOR ORIZU: CROOK, CONVICT TURNED SENATE PRESIDENT

Dr. Abyssinia Akweke Nwafor Orizu (1920-1999) being a crook should never have held any political office had Nigeria been a proper country.

In 1946, Orizu presided over a new form of heartless fraud. Families and whole villages in the East sold their possessions to send a single student from their village to university because like Awolowo, they were passionate about the benefit of a good education.

Orizu, a PhD holder, formed an agency, American Council on African Education (ACAE) to process these village students' admission into American universities. He collected the maintenance funds from their parents and other sponsors and diverted them partly or totally to other personal and business schemes.

In 1947, two prominent African-Americans Alain Locke and George Schulyer resigned over Orizu’s conduct of affairs.

Horace Mann Bond, the African-American president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania who provided Orizu’s agency with many tuition-free scholarships complained regularly and bitterly about Orizu’s failure to financially support the students whom Orizu had placed in his school.

The 32-year-old Orizu was found out and on the 2nd of February 1953, he was arrested.

Nnamdi Azikiwe, Mbonu Ojike, and Kola Balogun went to bail him out. On 9th February, his brother Joseph Onyekusi Orizu was arrested in Gusau and taken to Port Harcourt.

On 12th February both brothers were charged in a statement that read:

“That you between May 1, 1946, and December 31, 1951, at Port Harcourt, in the Port Harcourt Magisterial District, conspired together with other persons unknown to defraud such person as might be induced to deposit money with you as officers and agents of a body known as the American Council on African Education Incorporated, and you thereby committed an offence punishable under the Criminal code.”

When their lawyer told the court that Orizu was an honourable man, a PhD holder, a royal Prince in Nnewi, a member of the regional legislature, and also Azikiwe’s nominee for Minister of Local Government, Magistrate Dickson retorted:

''This court is not a department under the Government and it is not subject to any political party.”

Orizu was later jailed for 7 years. On Tuesday 22nd September 1953, he arrived at the Lagos Prison by train under escort to serve his term.

At the House of Commons debate of April 29, 1953, James Johnson the MP for Kingston upon Hull West berated Oliver Lyttelton, the Secretary of Colonies for taking so long to arrest the Orizu brothers:

“Is not it somewhat disgraceful that it has taken so long to investigate this case of defrauding parents and students? Hence allowing him to cause untold hardship to his own people?''

The logic behind the rule was that the government was a sacred job; if crooks were allowed to determine the destiny of the people, the people would suffer indefinitely.

Mbonu Ojike, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Ozumba Mbadiwe started to entrench the false narrative that Orizu was convicted by the British colonial government not for embezzlement but as a revenge for his fiery anti-colonial speech given at the 1947 Enugu Coal riots rally.

Never mind that more important figures such as H.O. Davies also gave fiery speeches at the rally too but were not fraudsters hence not fated for conviction by the colonial government. But in the case of Orizu, colonialism became the excuse for a crook to be turned into a national hero.

Azikiwe made Orizu whole by nominating him unopposed to represent Nnewi in the Federal elections of 1959 that ushered in self-rule.

The existence of colonialism provided Nigeria’s moral system the perfect excuse to develop and strengthen the disdain for the objective perception of value on which any civilised society must rest. When colonialism expired in 1960, the disdain remained alive and thriving through the force of habit.

In 1961 for instance, Dr. Okejukwu Ikejiani the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was caught lying about a certificate he never had.

A visiting scholar from the University of Toronto who happened to be from the same department which allegedly awarded Ikejiani’s certificate was the first to point out that Ikejiani never had that esteemed Doctor of Science degree.

Ibadan erupted and there were calls for Ikejiani to resign and be prosecuted. To Azikiwe who was the Head of State, the visitor to the university and in charge of such appointments, Ikejiani was being “persecuted” because he, Azikiwe, had dared to appoint another Igbo after Francis Ibiam as the Pro-chancellor and head of the governing council of a flagship Federal University in a non-Igbo region in particular when the Vice-Chancellor was already an Igbo.

Before departing Toronto University where he rightly earned his undergraduate medical degree, Ikejiani seduced and frequently unhooked the lovely secretary at the Vice-Chancellor’s office until she embossed a Doctor of Science certificate in his name complete with authentic signatures but with no education behind it.

After the Toronto University investigation into the matter, the secretary realised her wrongdoing and quietly accepted her dismissal. But that was Canada.

In Nigeria, one of the criteria of eligibility for being considered a national hero was to be a bonafide crook.

When Ikejiani was forced to finally resign, being a medical doctor, Azikiwe made him whole like Orizu by appointing him to the State House as one of his personal physicians. He was not done: Azikiwe then reappointed him again to his former unfilled post less than two years later. He still was not done: In 1964, Azikiwe decorated him with the national honour – Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) – pun unintended – ‘for his service to the nation.’

If anyone is interested in why Nigeria ended up being a pit latrine of implacable corruption where intelligence cannot assert itself in the conduct of public affairs, the Orizu and Ikejiani Affair is where to begin.

Azikiwe put into disorder all considerations based on value. And the absence of the objective perception of value produced the will to tribalism which eliminated the prospect of any meaningful progress for the nation.

And the story continues.......... #HistoryVille

Source: The News Magazine, June 19, 2016.[center]NWAFOR ORIZU: CROOK, CONVICT TURNED SENATE PRESIDENT

Dr. Abyssinia Akweke Nwafor Orizu (1920-1999) being a crook should never have held any political office had Nigeria been a proper country.

In 1946, Orizu presided over a new form of heartless fraud. Families and whole villages in the East sold their possessions to send a single student from their village to university because like Awolowo, they were passionate about the benefit of a good education.

Orizu, a PhD holder, formed an agency, American Council on African Education (ACAE) to process these village students' admission into American universities. He collected the maintenance funds from their parents and other sponsors and diverted them partly or totally to other personal and business schemes.

In 1947, two prominent African-Americans Alain Locke and George Schulyer resigned over Orizu’s conduct of affairs.

Horace Mann Bond, the African-American president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania who provided Orizu’s agency with many tuition-free scholarships complained regularly and bitterly about Orizu’s failure to financially support the students whom Orizu had placed in his school.

The 32-year-old Orizu was found out and on the 2nd of February 1953, he was arrested.

Nnamdi Azikiwe, Mbonu Ojike, and Kola Balogun went to bail him out. On 9th February, his brother Joseph Onyekusi Orizu was arrested in Gusau and taken to Port Harcourt.

On 12th February both brothers were charged in a statement that read:

“That you between May 1, 1946, and December 31, 1951, at Port Harcourt, in the Port Harcourt Magisterial District, conspired together with other persons unknown to defraud such person as might be induced to deposit money with you as officers and agents of a body known as the American Council on African Education Incorporated, and you thereby committed an offence punishable under the Criminal code.”

When their lawyer told the court that Orizu was an honourable man, a PhD holder, a royal Prince in Nnewi, a member of the regional legislature, and also Azikiwe’s nominee for Minister of Local Government, Magistrate Dickson retorted:

''This court is not a department under the Government and it is not subject to any political party.”

Orizu was later jailed for 7 years. On Tuesday 22nd September 1953, he arrived at the Lagos Prison by train under escort to serve his term.

At the House of Commons debate of April 29, 1953, James Johnson the MP for Kingston upon Hull West berated Oliver Lyttelton, the Secretary of Colonies for taking so long to arrest the Orizu brothers:

“Is not it somewhat disgraceful that it has taken so long to investigate this case of defrauding parents and students? Hence allowing him to cause untold hardship to his own people?''

The logic behind the rule was that the government was a sacred job; if crooks were allowed to determine the destiny of the people, the people would suffer indefinitely.

Mbonu Ojike, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Ozumba Mbadiwe started to entrench the false narrative that Orizu was convicted by the British colonial government not for embezzlement but as a revenge for his fiery anti-colonial speech given at the 1947 Enugu Coal riots rally.

Never mind that more important figures such as H.O. Davies also gave fiery speeches at the rally too but were not fraudsters hence not fated for conviction by the colonial government. But in the case of Orizu, colonialism became the excuse for a crook to be turned into a national hero.

Azikiwe made Orizu whole by nominating him unopposed to represent Nnewi in the Federal elections of 1959 that ushered in self-rule.

The existence of colonialism provided Nigeria’s moral system the perfect excuse to develop and strengthen the disdain for the objective perception of value on which any civilised society must rest. When colonialism expired in 1960, the disdain remained alive and thriving through the force of habit.

In 1961 for instance, Dr. Okejukwu Ikejiani the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was caught lying about a certificate he never had.

A visiting scholar from the University of Toronto who happened to be from the same department which allegedly awarded Ikejiani’s certificate was the first to point out that Ikejiani never had that esteemed Doctor of Science degree.

Ibadan erupted and there were calls for Ikejiani to resign and be prosecuted. To Azikiwe who was the Head of State, the visitor to the university and in charge of such appointments, Ikejiani was being “persecuted” because he, Azikiwe, had dared to appoint another Igbo after Francis Ibiam as the Pro-chancellor and head of the governing council of a flagship Federal University in a non-Igbo region in particular when the Vice-Chancellor was already an Igbo.

Before departing Toronto University where he rightly earned his undergraduate medical degree, Ikejiani seduced and frequently unhooked the lovely secretary at the Vice-Chancellor’s office until she embossed a Doctor of Science certificate in his name complete with authentic signatures but with no education behind it.

After the Toronto University investigation into the matter, the secretary realised her wrongdoing and quietly accepted her dismissal. But that was Canada.

In Nigeria, one of the criteria of eligibility for being considered a national hero was to be a bonafide crook.

When Ikejiani was forced to finally resign, being a medical doctor, Azikiwe made him whole like Orizu by appointing him to the State House as one of his personal physicians. He was not done: Azikiwe then reappointed him again to his former unfilled post less than two years later. He still was not done: In 1964, Azikiwe decorated him with the national honour – Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) – pun unintended – ‘for his service to the nation.’

If anyone is interested in why Nigeria ended up being a pit latrine of implacable corruption where intelligence cannot assert itself in the conduct of public affairs, the Orizu and Ikejiani Affair is where to begin.

Azikiwe put into disorder all considerations based on value. And the absence of the objective perception of value produced the will to tribalism which eliminated the prospect of any meaningful progress for the nation.

And the story continues.......... #HistoryVille

Source: The News Magazine, June 19, 2016.[/center]NWAFOR ORIZU: CROOK, CONVICT TURNED SENATE PRESIDENT

Dr. Abyssinia Akweke Nwafor Orizu (1920-1999) being a crook should never have held any political office had Nigeria been a proper country.

In 1946, Orizu presided over a new form of heartless fraud. Families and whole villages in the East sold their possessions to send a single student from their village to university because like Awolowo, they were passionate about the benefit of a good education.

Orizu, a PhD holder, formed an agency, American Council on African Education (ACAE) to process these village students' admission into American universities. He collected the maintenance funds from their parents and other sponsors and diverted them partly or totally to other personal and business schemes.

In 1947, two prominent African-Americans Alain Locke and George Schulyer resigned over Orizu’s conduct of affairs.

Horace Mann Bond, the African-American president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania who provided Orizu’s agency with many tuition-free scholarships complained regularly and bitterly about Orizu’s failure to financially support the students whom Orizu had placed in his school.

The 32-year-old Orizu was found out and on the 2nd of February 1953, he was arrested.

Nnamdi Azikiwe, Mbonu Ojike, and Kola Balogun went to bail him out. On 9th February, his brother Joseph Onyekusi Orizu was arrested in Gusau and taken to Port Harcourt.

On 12th February both brothers were charged in a statement that read:

“That you between May 1, 1946, and December 31, 1951, at Port Harcourt, in the Port Harcourt Magisterial District, conspired together with other persons unknown to defraud such person as might be induced to deposit money with you as officers and agents of a body known as the American Council on African Education Incorporated, and you thereby committed an offence punishable under the Criminal code.”

When their lawyer told the court that Orizu was an honourable man, a PhD holder, a royal Prince in Nnewi, a member of the regional legislature, and also Azikiwe’s nominee for Minister of Local Government, Magistrate Dickson retorted:

''This court is not a department under the Government and it is not subject to any political party.”

Orizu was later jailed for 7 years. On Tuesday 22nd September 1953, he arrived at the Lagos Prison by train under escort to serve his term.

At the House of Commons debate of April 29, 1953, James Johnson the MP for Kingston upon Hull West berated Oliver Lyttelton, the Secretary of Colonies for taking so long to arrest the Orizu brothers:

“Is not it somewhat disgraceful that it has taken so long to investigate this case of defrauding parents and students? Hence allowing him to cause untold hardship to his own people?''

The logic behind the rule was that the government was a sacred job; if crooks were allowed to determine the destiny of the people, the people would suffer indefinitely.

Mbonu Ojike, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Ozumba Mbadiwe started to entrench the false narrative that Orizu was convicted by the British colonial government not for embezzlement but as a revenge for his fiery anti-colonial speech given at the 1947 Enugu Coal riots rally.

Never mind that more important figures such as H.O. Davies also gave fiery speeches at the rally too but were not fraudsters hence not fated for conviction by the colonial government. But in the case of Orizu, colonialism became the excuse for a crook to be turned into a national hero.

Azikiwe made Orizu whole by nominating him unopposed to represent Nnewi in the Federal elections of 1959 that ushered in self-rule.

The existence of colonialism provided Nigeria’s moral system the perfect excuse to develop and strengthen the disdain for the objective perception of value on which any civilised society must rest. When colonialism expired in 1960, the disdain remained alive and thriving through the force of habit.

In 1961 for instance, Dr. Okejukwu Ikejiani the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was caught lying about a certificate he never had.

A visiting scholar from the University of Toronto who happened to be from the same department which allegedly awarded Ikejiani’s certificate was the first to point out that Ikejiani never had that esteemed Doctor of Science degree.

Ibadan erupted and there were calls for Ikejiani to resign and be prosecuted. To Azikiwe who was the Head of State, the visitor to the university and in charge of such appointments, Ikejiani was being “persecuted” because he, Azikiwe, had dared to appoint another Igbo after Francis Ibiam as the Pro-chancellor and head of the governing council of a flagship Federal University in a non-Igbo region in particular when the Vice-Chancellor was already an Igbo.

Before departing Toronto University where he rightly earned his undergraduate medical degree, Ikejiani seduced and frequently unhooked the lovely secretary at the Vice-Chancellor’s office until she embossed a Doctor of Science certificate in his name complete with authentic signatures but with no education behind it.

After the Toronto University investigation into the matter, the secretary realised her wrongdoing and quietly accepted her dismissal. But that was Canada.

In Nigeria, one of the criteria of eligibility for being considered a national hero was to be a bonafide crook.

When Ikejiani was forced to finally resign, being a medical doctor, Azikiwe made him whole like Orizu by appointing him to the State House as one of his personal physicians. He was not done: Azikiwe then reappointed him again to his former unfilled post less than two years later. He still was not done: In 1964, Azikiwe decorated him with the national honour – Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) – pun unintended – ‘for his service to the nation.’

If anyone is interested in why Nigeria ended up being a pit latrine of implacable corruption where intelligence cannot assert itself in the conduct of public affairs, the Orizu and Ikejiani Affair is where to begin.

Azikiwe put into disorder all considerations based on value. And the absence of the objective perception of value produced the will to tribalism which eliminated the prospect of any meaningful progress for the nation.

And the story continues.......... #HistoryVille

Source: The News Magazine, June 19, 2016.

Awolowo was still a motor park tout when Nwafor Orizu had already graduated from Ivey league school in USA. You failed to state that H.O. Davies did not attempt to change Nigerian educational system based on the British format to American format as Nwafor Orizu did. Was Ikejiani not a qualified medical doctor? Did he need the Doctor of Science degree in order to append "Dr." to his name?

LibertyRep:
What if the vendor has gone to fetch water from the Board?

If the board has been bumping water, the vendor would have no business going to the board to fetch water.

MrMaestro:
It’s become quite clear that there is nothing that will bring the south together as the igbos have made it their mission to attack Tinubu as they have done with Awolowo, MKO Abiola, and every other political juggernaut in the region to prevent the strongest political candidate from reaching power.

Meanwhile the Northerners continue to support Yorubas. Continue to partner with Yorubas such as the Norther Dangote building the most massive refinery in Africa in Lagos state instead of his own Kano state. Femi Otedola and Dangote seem to be close friends and work together. The NW focus on Agriculture and farming production, while SW focuses on Tech, law, and financial services. It’s honestly a great combination as the strengths match perfectly.

Whether it be business, politics, and anything else, there’s a natural harmonious collaboration between the two regions whenever it happens. Meanwhile whenever igbos get any sort of interaction with Yorubas they either curse the natives and say they own Lagos. Or they curse their politicians and say they are evil and corrupt.

So my question stands:

WHAT BENEFIT HAS A SOUTHERN UNITY BEEN FOR YORUBAS AND HOW IS IT BETTER THAN A WESTERN UNITY WITH THE NW IN THE CONTEXT OF NIGERIA?

SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY.

Honestly, I do not want to do anything with Yoruba. I had rather joined Biafra or even Republic of Igbo land than have treacherous loudmouths as compatriots. One of the reasons I want Nigeria to be disintegrated is have correct people in a nation state where unity and prosperity will flourish.

ViperAda:
What do you expect from an ibo man, same ol same deflection.
7 ibo majors were the architects of the coup , Ademoyega was deceived to tag along, he had no role or command of any subordinates.

-Viper

I guess other ranks involved in the coup plot were not human beings since they were not Igbo too.

Echile:
Chief Mbazulike Amechi, popularly known as ‘The boy is good’ was a first republic parliamentarian and first post Independence Minister of Aviation. He was a strong member of the defunct Zikist Movement and since the first bloody military coup on January 1966, which sacked the politicians, Amechi has been living in his community, Ukpor in Nnewi South local government area. He spoke on his experience:


ON the coup: On January 15, 1966, themy struck and turned the weapons which we issued to them to defend the country, on the government and the leaders that issued the weapons to them. In the process, they killed the Prime minister of the country; they killed the premier of the West; they killed the premier of the North. They were about to kill the premier of the East but what saved Dr Michael Okpara was that Archbishop Macarious, the president of Cyprus, was his guest that night and probably they wouldn’t want war between Cyprus and Nigeria.

On the other hand they could not kill Chief Dennis Osadebey because there was no Army in Benin at the time of the coup and so Osadebey managed to escape. They also killed Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, the Federal Minister of Finance. They also killed some members of their own group. For example, Brigadier Maimalari was innocently killed. My close friend, Colonel Arthur Unegbe was also killed. He was in charge of the Armoury and because he was reluctant to release the Armoury to them, they shot and killed him in his house. Since then, Nigeria has never been the same and Nigeria has never attained anything near the dreams of the founding fathers and nationalists and fought for independence of the nation.

Many people had the impression that the coup was tribal in nature in view of the way casualties were recorded.

I don’t know about that but I have told you the reason why Okpara could not be killed. I was going home myself. The first time the military entered the Midwest, I met them at Abudu because my wife had a baby at Charles Borromeo Hospital at Onitsha and that day they were to be discharged from hospital. So after the parliamentary session on 14th January, 1966, I drove from Lagos through Benin. I slept in Benin so that I could get to Onitsha in good time to be able to pick my wife and the baby. They were moving to Benin from Enugu or so. By then I didn’t know that something happened in the night because it was already morning. My car was carrying the NCNC and the Nigeria flag and at Abudu, one Army jeep swerved off the road and ran into our lane. My driver swerved into the field and the jeep came into the field also. An Army captain came out of the jeep and ordered his driver to move on.

I didn’t know a coup had taken place. I just took it that the soldiers could be drunk and could do anything. It was only when I got to Onitsha that my mother in-law told me that the Army had taken over government and killed the prime minister and others. She said the radio had been announcing it and that was how I knew that there was a coup. There and then, I told my driver to remove the flags on the car.

By then, the coup plotters had announced that Dr Nwafor Orizu, the acting president had been removed because the president, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, was abroad on medical trip. They said they were handing over the government to General Aguiyi Ironsi and were expecting a broadcast. So I rang my confidential secretary, one Mrs. Marinho to go to my house in Ikoyi to ask one Joe Obi to pack all my things, separating government property from my own and put my things in a lorry and send home. That was how I ended my ministerial appointment. By the third day of the coup, everything I had was at home here and I said thank God.

Well, the Army took over and they continued to blunder. They continued to do what they were trained to do; that is to destroy; to kill and to loot. Then the quarrel between two Lieutenant Colonels – Ojukwu and Yakubu Gowon – eventually led the country to a civil war. Ojukwu said he was senior to Gowon and that Gowon cannot be the head of state when he (Ojukwu) was a governor.

Killing of Igbo soldiers

Gowon said if you want to be head of state, come to Lagos so that soldiers could take order from you. The argument continued until it led to the killing of Igbos in the north and killing of Igbo soldiers all over the country, with one of them buried alive in Ibadan. The young man had insisted on not doing what they wanted and they threatened to kill him. He said he was prepared to die; after all it was only one bullet that could kill him. So they told him they were not going to waste a bullet on him and buried him alive after forcing him to dig his grave. He was a major in the Army. A lot of atrocities were committed then.

What do you think could be the reason for the coup?

I wouldn’t say I knew the intention of the boys who took over government because Ademulegun and other Yoruba officers never admitted that it was an Igbo coup. It only happened that there were more Igbo officers involved in the coup because there were so many Igbo officers in the army at that time.

At the bolded, anybody who conjectured those crap is fundamentally deranged. This is one of the reasons Nigeria is termed a basket of fools.

Oghene1st:
In that 1.8m barrel daily, 1.4m is from the South South. That is 1.4m multiply by $90 which equals $126m, over N60b is the revenue generated by Nigeria from South south oil daily. Then one idiot Yoruba boy abi Yorubas will come to say South West is the economic backbone of Nigeria.

South South is the one feeding all you hungry zones.

THE price of Nigeria’s Bonny Light, yesterday, surged further to $91.38 per barrel, from $90.31, recorded the previous day, indicating an excess of $29.38 against the $62 per barrel benchmark of the nation’s 2022 budget.

The leap in price was attributed to a combination of factors, including the declining oil inventory, due mainly to rising demand driven by the reopening of businesses after many months of Coronavirus lockdown.

Consequently, Nigeria, which budgeted to produce 1.8 million barrels daily and between 300,000 – 400,000 barrels of Condensate, which also attracts high premium like Bonny Light, expects to generate much revenue into its Excess Crude Account, ECA, a special account established to hold oil revenues in excess of the budgeted benchmark.

Meanwhile, there were fears that the rising crude price could push petrol subsidy to about $16 billion per day.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/01/rising-crude-price-pushes-petrol-subsidy-to-n16bn-per-day-2/

@ the bolded, the so-called south-south is not economic backbone of Nigeria. How could south-south remotely claim economic backbone of anything when the region looks poor and dilapidated. The region is a treacherous backwater and shell remain so for a very long time.

Some peeps in the shithole called Nigeria are not only treacherous, greedy but loudmouthed.

johnmartus:
They always chest beating that is where the problem start from.

It is display of idiocy to pronounce Ndigbo indulge in chest beating. Any group of people which has insisted on self-determination cannot be regarded as chest beaters. There is a need to prove something to the loudmouths.

Racoon:
Thank you for schooling that ethnic jingonist. Always trying to distort histroy. I read:
-"OIL, POLITICS AND VIOLENCE: Nigerian Military Coup Culture(1966-1976) by Max Siollun.
-"NIGERIAN FIVE MAJORS" By Col.Ben Gbulie(Rtd)

Bros it delights me to bring truth to issues which involves dilapidated shithole called Nigeria. Ben Gbulie and Max Siollun were two authors who gave close to perfect accounts of what happened in pre-war Nigeria. Even when I had issue with certain facts written by Max Siollun, we have come to agreeable deduction. You had to be mindful Yoruba peeps are colorful storytellers. They can really paint a story.

I cannot believe that Enyinnaya Nwafor is talking about Ukwa la Ngwa people yet insist to replace Ikpeazu as the governor. If Enyinnaya Nwafor is not a deceitful stiff, he would have touted a character from Ukwa instead of Ngwa as rightful replacement of Okezie Ikpeazu as governor of Abia State.

The dude, Tinubu, is a walking dead.

johnmartus:
Are you okay at all.

No, I am not okay. However, I would been perfectly okay if I had written Igbo would not rule Nigeria, especially in 2023. What a dunce.

Ebubu:
Published 28 January 2022

Mr Kunle Ademulegun is one of the children of the late Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun, who was killed in the first military coup in 1966. In this interview with PETER DADA, the 65-year-old speaks about the life after the death of his father

When Brigadier Ademulegun died, where were you?

He died in the first military coup of January 15, 1966 in Kaduna. I was in the barracks in Lagos where his children resided.

What do you do for a living?

I was once a freelance journalist and currently, I am into livestock farming.

What was your last encounter with your late father?

When he died, I was just 10 years old then and if I should recall what happened then, there was a military coup, because he was very friendly with the then Prime Minister, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa and Sir Ahmadu Bello, so the junior officers thought he was fraternising with the civilian rulers. There was a misunderstanding in the system on the basis that my father was number three in the army then. The late Aguyi Ironsi, Brigadier Bassey [/b]and Brigadier Zakariyah Maimalari were also senior officers then.[b] My father was to succeed the expatriate GOC ( General Officer in Command) in Kaduna 1 Division. So after Aguyi Ironsi came back from Congo, he was promoted to Major General, my father was made to head the Division. As I learnt, when the coup was hatched, my father was penciled in among those to be executed and unfortunately for him, he was in the bedroom with one of his wives. The woman worked in one of the military hospitals. She had a pistol, I think she shot one of the soldiers. So that was how they killed her and my father at the same time.

So how would you describe him?

Bridagier Ademulegun was a detribalised military officer, which Chief Olusegun Obasanjo himself confirmed to me. He was a disciplined soldier when he was alive. He did not care whether you were a Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo or any tribe. If you merited anything, he would do it for you but the unfortunate thing for him was how they killed him.

You said you were 10 years old when your father died, how did you know all the stories about how he was killed?

Before he died, there was this Colonel Olaseinde (retd), he was a Yoruba man. He was the one who sat me down and briefed me on everything that happened. In fact, I wanted to join the Army too, but my mother insisted that I should not go because she knew that I was going there to avenge the death of my father and that time truly that was what I wanted to go into the army for. But my people convinced me to leave everything for God.

How has it been with the family after his death?

After his death, we children were being sponsored by the Nigerian Army all through our education and we are united, we meet and we discuss.

As the nation holds Army Remembrance Day on January 15 of every year to remember the fallen heroes, do you hold such a programme in the family to remember your father?

No, but we speak to one another on the phone and if any one of us is celebrating we will all move there as one Ademulegun’s family. The only thing about us in our family is that we were not trained in Yoruba ways of life. We don’t care about our members but we are all Ademuleguns.

You said your father was killed with one of his wives. How many wives did your father have while alive?

I don’t want to disclose that. I only know he was a polygamist. My mum is the third wife.

Aside your education which was sponsored by the army, is there anything spectacular that the government has done to honour Late Brig. Ademulegun?


That is what baffles me most that as a military officer, who died in active service, there should be entitlements for my late father which should have been given to the family. But then my people were afraid of the army, nobody wanted to face them to ask questions. I took it upon myself that we should know where my father was buried, so I was taken to Kaduna military cemetery where they buried senior military officers and I saw my father’s tomb, but I was not happy, that after serving the country for that long, what happened to his entitlements? So I went to Abuja to enquire, I went to the then GOC in Abuja, but the man directed me to the army pay and record department. So later I just discovered that there was no seriousness put into the matter. So I decided to put the demands in writing to be more explicit. But I was more worried that my father hailed from Ondo town and he didn’t have a single house of his own.The money they got from his account, they decided to put up a house there so that his children; that whenever they come back home, there will be something to show them. So I came back home to pursue it.


Who initiated the building of the house then?

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It was the Ondo State Government. I think the whole thing started around 1981. They called the family then, and they told us that they discovered some money in our father’s account and that it would not speak well if he did not have a single house in his home town, Ondo, and that they were going to remove certain amount to put up a 4-bedroom flat in Ondo town which they started since 1981 and up till now, nothing has been done to complete it and the contractor handling the project happened to be an Ondo man and after series of disappointments for the completion of the house and when I came back home, I got to the place, it was bushy. We can’t even say that the place is for Brigadier Ademulegun and I now called the other children to inform them about what is happening to the place and because most of us have got our own personal houses, nobody cares and I said I will not wait until the house collapsed.

Has the family made efforts to call the attention of the state government to the matter?

Yes! When I came back to Ondo, I went to the government and it seems they did not want to listen.

Since 1981, why haven’t you made move on the property until present time ?

I did. I went to the then Ministry of Justice in the old Ondo State around 1986 and I met one Mr Jayeola and this man told me that they would do what they could on it. I think he was the Attorney General of the state then. Thereafter, none of us came back to Ondo because as I said earlier, I stayed in Lagos. Later the man, Jayeola called me and said they could afford to pay the part of the money to build the house while we children would complete it. I was so furious about his statement, and this time around I have made up my mind that something must be done on the abandoned project.

So, what other steps have you now taken on the matter?

We have written several letters to the governor through one human rights group on the issue and they told me that Governor Akeredolu promised to look into it and that was in July 2021 but unfortunately, till now, nothing has happened from the governor.

What other means have you employed to see the governor?

I have not because I don’t know any other channel I could go through. I wanted to meet the SSG ( Secretary to the State Government) and they told me in her office that they were working on it since then. I don’t believe they are doing anything at all.

Before this present government came in, an Ondo man was the state governor. Do you take any step during his administration?

I did not because I was not in Ondo but lately, I had a telephone discussion through one of my friends with the former Governor Mimiko. He was even very annoyed, saying that he was in the government for eight years and “you people did not come.” He said there was nothing he could do that he could not approach the present governor about the issue.

As one of the fallen heroes, did the Federal Government specifically do anything in his honour?

Aside from naming a street after him in Abuja, Area 10, nothing again. I later went to Abuja around 2006 and I met the Chief of Army Staff then, he said many things but no action was taken on the issue.

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The above junk is lettered with falsehoods which are usually conjured by Yoruba. There was no Brigadier Bassey in 1966 and certainly there were no military formation known as Division and Colonel Olaseinde. It is very laughable to tout detribalized military officer when he appointed a Yoruba officer as 2IC, Brigade Major was Yoruba, his ADC was a Yoruba, his orderly was a Yoruba, and his driver was a Yoruba. Ademulogun was not mere friends with Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa, he really fraternized with them which dripped into military decision-making. The case in point involved Major C. Anuforo who commanded the 1st Recce in Kaduna in 1964 during the political uprise in northern region known as TIV riot.

johnmartus:
Igbo will not get both APC and PDP presidential ticket in 2023 because they don't have the number or a personality that widely acceptable between the two leading political parties in Nigeria.

South east believe so much in south south and the majority of political heavyweight from south south hate igbo.

Lists of people that will never support a igbo man to become Nigeria president.

Ezenwo Nyesom wike River state governor this man hate anything about igbo he categorically said nobody should refer to him as igbo that he have igbo name doesn't justify that he is igbo man...As a matter of fact he have vice president ambition.

In Akwa ibom the governor will surely go the way wike because they are friends and also consider the absent of Godswill akpabio in pdp as well.

Ijaw people bayelsa state to be sincerely this people are really wonderful and without mincing words ijaw are the most dynamic people in Nigeria. Despite that a northerner unseat their son this people still voted for APC we are all know that APC won bayelsa with landslide.

And also the present governor is a friend of wike of river state so igbo shouldn't expect much from him.

Cross river state is control by APC the seating governor will do everything within his capacity to make sure his party win the election with the federal power. Also the people of the state don't have any grudges against Yoruba people .Also the state always voting Yoruba candidate in a general election since Baba Awolowo day.

Obaseki Edo state more so no Matter who is governor
In Edo state my people from Edo will never vote against Yoruba people because it has been like that since amalgamation...And finally we are brothers.

In Delta state although the state is being control by pdp but this is a multi ethnic state APC would gather enough vote they need from the state with the help of vice senate president and itsekiri will never vote against their brothers also Urhobo can't vote against Yoruba Awolowo always win there.

So igbo how do you want to become Nigeria president
Are you hoping on hausa fulani votes?

The writer of the above crap is a typical idiotic Nigerian who will play the ethnic card and still insist the Nigeria is one blind unity. I have stated and will reiterate unequivocally, disintegration of the shithole called Nigeria is the best way out of the country. Nigeria is bottomless pit of deceits.

Who constitutes the "They"?

babasolution:
Southerners need to wake up,their evil leaders have sold them out for generations, if the oil and gas was found in the north,southerners will never ever,I repeat never ever benefit from it,they only will maybe if they agree to be converted to Islam. This is the truth,the northerners will hold on tightly to their oil.The south are the most stupid people in all generations on earth,their descedants will marvel how stupid their parents were.The satanic cheating that are being done to the south,is one of the greatest deception and evil on earth,all the south gets is soot,gas flaring environmental degradation. The south are the most FOOLISH people on earth

I shall never forgive any southerners who joined forces with northern region of Nigeria to fight Ndigbo and Biafrans.

Africans are very wicked!!!!

Danjikanbauchi:
I don't know why God creat Afonjas, i suspect this hypocritical lies and deception was what make their ancestor Oduduwa was cast out of heaven.

This are the real photos of Buhari visit.

Oduduwa was never from the heaven. He was a chronical womanizer and was almost caught with another man's wife, he jumped through the window.

Osagyefo98:
In that sense case closed.

The doors has been shut against them. Let them lobby for speakership.

Meanwhile Manager can still return to the Senate anyway. It has always been his birthright in that part of the country.

A stream of thought which has periled country called Nigeria. If the dude called Manager is interested in the gubernatorial seat, somebody else must take up his position in the Senate. If Manager fails in his bid to secure the gubernatorial seat, he cannot be guaranteed his senate seat.

With all these accolades, a person wonders how this dude is a member of the government which saw the worst human right abuse in the history of shithole called Nigeria. The pride of education is the good use in preservation of mankind.

Asari Dokubo is a foolish loudmouth.

Karemarealty288:
All Ned stories na toto stories..

Is there any story better than toto stories?

Peterobiisathie:
Tribal bigots

For the intellectual midgets, the word, bigot, is a terrible thing.

ViperAda:
SS are way too politically mature and advanced than SE.

Ekweremadu was contesting the vice Senate seat against Omo agege but APC came big for him.
Ibos are only using the imaginary tag to rob them off their sense of belonging, however, SS are much wiser in this dispensation, cutting off the unproductive apron string. SS don dey bam with the big boys.


-Viper

What a crass statement. Both senete president and its vice come from the majority party. I cannot recall Ekweremadu as APC member.

Simply put, southeast wants out of the shithole called Nigeria. There is absolutely nothing good about Nigeria.

pinkPUSSY:
: Yorubas and fulanis are one ..

Yes, with respect to history of their migration to northern region of Nigeria. Fulani picked up Yoruba from Burkina Faso.

olasaad:
You mean 5%

Yes, the 5% which is mightier than 95%!!! Nigeria sucks to deep hell.

CUMIN:
Then you guys should relocate back there to decongest Lagos. We're tired of you.

What a foolish vomit from a stiff.

Golan007:
Asari don hold dem for blockos.

Asari touched the wrong blockos!!

The caption of this thread is idiotic rant.

Otunbakolawole0:
Last I checked, Utomi is delta. Is he Igbo now?

Only a dunce does not know that Delta is not an ethnicity as Igbo. The silly question could be the same as "Is Kolawole a Yoruba now".