₦airaland Forum

TheGoodJoe:
This does not make the actions of few to account for millions of people. Leave innocent people out of the actions of few.

lhordspy:
According to the creator of this thread, he said:
"But what is most interesting is that all of these people are tagging the infamous 1966 coup as an Igbo coup as they have always done; erroneously so."

A Coup that was masterminded, orchestrated and executed by key heartless people like ; Chukuwama Nzeogwu, Anuforo,Onwuatuegwu, Emmanuel Efeajuna, Humphrey Chukwuma, Don Okafor from one tribe and One ethnic group only is what?


Is it a Fulani coup? Our problem in this country is when the truth is against our interest or affiliations, we always tend to see it as campaign of calumnies against us.

Truth should always be truth, irrespective of whether it favour us or not.
And the plain truth is that what happened that day jan. 15th 1966, was more of an organised Ethnic cleans!ng, a tr!bal war not just a coup.

Because after all this, Umunnakwe Aguyi-Irons! (the head of state then) from same tribe, did nothing in bringing this people to justice.

Roger3D:
It was an Ibo coup. Simple and plain. Nobody should attempt to rewrite history

imam07:
U are an idiot. Only one yoruba man was involved

lhordspy:
Peter is a good man. But you can have a bad wife, but never a bad inlaw.

Peter's tribemen are the worst set of people to ever grace this planet. And this election just proved the popular assertion right. Do you see the insult, curses and hate flying around, emanating from them. They are hateful to the bone.

BluntTheApostle:
Well, if one finger brought oil it soiled the others

AdaojoTheUrchin:
Other coup plotters were Maj. Ademoyega (He wrote a book about the coup on how he actively participated), Capt. Ganiyu Adeleke, Lt. Fola Oyewole. We yoruba Muslims should stop trying to distort history. It can't work in this era of internet.

AdaojoTheUrchin:
Ademoyega told us he participated in the coup in Lagos and killed Col. Unegbe, Tafawa Balewa etc.

oyebanji:
The attempt at revisionism will not work sir. You shld have just stayed with your last paragraph. It may probably have not started as an ethnic coup but at the end of the day when it was time to review the accounts,. Westerners and Northerners took 99.9% of the losses. And someone still want to explain it away?

Roger3D:
It was an Ibo coup. Simple and plain. Nobody should attempt to rewrite history

Sandazblack:
So how about the unprovoked massacre of the Igbos in 1945 and 1953 or isn’t that part of history?

TheGoodJoe:
Nothing concerns millions of innocent Igbo. Has the whole North condemned the appointment of a terror sympathizer as Minister? Did the North condemn Buhari for appointing Pantami as Minister? Does that mean all Northerners are terror sympathizers?

This talk does not make any sense. Leave innocent people out of the crimes of few. Let people answer for their crimes.

Kennyfancy:
we have never been anti igbo, we can only lie to ourselves but deep down the truth we are more Igbos than any other tribe, if I travel to the north, I will find more peace close to an Igbo man than an huasa or Yoruba man

Believeintruth:
Try and read and have sense. The person said Col Arthur Unegbe was killed by Ifeajuna and Ademoyega and Co who were the actors in 1966.

Believeintruth:
You see why I said you don't have sense. Ironsi after the party at Maimalari's house went to Apapa for another party that was why he was not in his residence when the coup plotters came visiting. At the time he got home, he got a call from Col Yakubu Pam who alerted him to troop movements round his house before the coup plotters got to him. That was how Ironsi was tipped off and he went to Ikeja cantonment and rallied troops to quash the coup.

Pityoobi:
I laugh when you all tried to deny the igboness of Patrick Chukwuma Nzeogwu. So what you are all trying to say now is that Anioma people are not Igbo, people that speak variant of Igbos and are referred to as sub group of Igbos...keep on denying your people because of the lies you intend to tell.

Kaduna's greedy actions directly and indirectly led to the civil war. The killing of the northern Oligarch by the Igboitic movement of Nzeogwu gave rise to the killings of the Igbos in the North.

Initially there have been history of serious acrimony between the Igbos and the Northerners over Igbo trying to dominate trade and government...like they are trying to do in Lagos right now, only the Yorubas are more superior in putting them in proper check.

Even though the unrest started during the time of Aguyi Ironsi, a counter coup that led to the murder of Aguyi Ironsi and other Igbo officers aggravated everything. This was the key ingredients needed by Ojokwu to begin his own personal agenda as the North boiled over with their perceived control of government after the coup with enough impetus to attack the Igbos.

The federal government led by the north was complacent because they actually wanted to give their people a breather from the choking effects the Igbos have had on them over the years. Remember the government of Tafewa Balewa was formed by aligning with Nnamdi Azikwe against the Yorubas and the Igbos finally betrayed them by killing their leaders and sparing theirs.

Igbos have the nack to annoy their host by unnecessary show of dominance. Like telling the Yorubas that Lagos is no mans land, I just this will not spill over some day. We are witnessing mass deportation of Igbos from Dubai, India and SA for reasons similar to this. Strange enough, Igbos do not experience this problem at home.

Nzeogwu was a friend of Ojukwu and fought on the side of the Biafrans, in fact he was killed in action during the civil war. It was Ojukwu that released from prison after Aguyi Ironsi sentenced him to a kind of protected custody in Aba prison.

When the Igbos want to start their own narrations, they will begin by claiming the killings was the major reason for starting Biafra, but won't say anything about the actions and activities that provoked the killings. Declaring Biafra was not the major reason to stop the carnage but working on tasking the Federal government to stop the killing decisively. Instead Ojukwu was looking for the control of the region?

lhordspy:
It does. It was orchestrated and executed by over 7 igbos as leadmen. And the highest rank officer from Southwest and North were eliminated at the first two shot.

It takes a little pinch of logic to put the pieces together.

hartson:
wow,great my man.which yonder you chuk head bro?

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.

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

BluntTheApostle:
In a coup spearheaded by an Igbo man, the Prime Minister (a Northerner) was killed, but the President (an Igbo man) escapes death.


The premiers of Northern and Western regions are murdered, but by some stroke of luck, the premier of Eastern Nigeria escapes.


Ademulegun (a Yoruba man) is killed, but JTU Aguiyi Ironsi (an Igbo man), the most senior officer of the NA is spared, and rewarded with Head of State.


Haba, even if the coup plotters had no tribal intentions, you can't blame people for thinking that they had.


The Muritala coup was a reprisal coup targeted at Igbos.


Dimka's coup did not have any close resemblance to Nzeogwu's coup because it didn't seem to target tribes.


Buhari's coup did not target any specific tribe. In fact, it toppled a fellow Fulani man.


IBB's coup too did not target any tribe or spared any tribe.

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.

Patriotsleague:
His ancestry is Igbo, from the name, looks and accent you know. That man is an Igbo man, they are Igbo descendants who lived in that part of Delta.

chosengocap:
Now take a look at the list of
the '66 coup plotters and render
your own judgement; 1. Major Chukwuma Kaduna
Nzeogwu(Delta Igbo)
2. Major Adewale Ademoyega
(Yoruba) author of "Why we
struck"
3. Capt. G. Adeleke(Yoruba) 4. Maj. Ifeajuna(Igbo)
5. Lt. Fola Oyewole(Yoruba)
author of "The reluctant rebel"
6. Lt. R. Egbiko(Esean)
7. Lt. Tijani Katsina(Hausa/
Fulani) 8. Lt. O. Olafemiyan(Yoruba)
9. Capt. Gibson Jalo(Bali)
10. Capt. Swanton(Middle Belt)
11. Lt. Hope Harris Eghagha
(Urhobo)
12. Lt. Dag Warribor(Ijaw) 13. 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo(Hausa)
14. 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera
(Tiv). So, to an unbiased observer,
what evidence can one provide
to show that Igbos actually
carried out the coup in order to
exterminate other tribes and
take over the country? It is very easy to sell falshood, but it is
very difficult to provide facts to
buttress your claims. It is now clear even to a
suckling, that the imperialist
genocidists crammed up this
murderous lies against the
Igbos to find reasons to
perpetually keep them under hate.
One even wonders why the
nigerian state and perpetrators
of the gruesome genocide have
been preventing the proper
documentation of that episode for the benefits of her posterity.
Terrible!!

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

Princedapace:
I look at Nigerians I laugh. One sense, most don't have.
This post is saying that why is it that we quickly remind Nigerians that Delta igbos are not igbos but the man who led the coup then is from Delta igbo and we call him igbo?

If u all believe that the man who led the coup is igbo, then, stop denying that his people across Delta state, river state, etc are also igbo.
That is the key point of this thread. But normally, blacks no dey like read.

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.

Idiko1:
Complete display of idiocy. Ademoyega was a mere coordinator of events and was not even in fatigue uniform.

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

grandstar:
You certainly aren't Yoruba.