LONDON, Nov. 17— More than 40 soldiers have been executed in Lagos after a plot to assassinate Nigeria's military leaders was uncovered, a London newspaper said in its Sunday issue.

The paper, The Observer, said 42 officers and enlisted men were involved, including two lieutenant colonels and four majors. The plan had been to gun down the Nigerian leader, Gen. Mohammed Buhari, and his ministers while they were watching the independence day parade in Lagos on Oct. 1, the paper said.

But the plot was revealed, and the plotters were rounded up and shot in an underground firing range at Ikeja, outside Lagos, it said. General Buhari toppled the civilian Government of President Shehu Shagari in a coup on Dec. 31, 1983.

sCun:
Buharists cry to high heavens when soldiers are sentenced to death for aiding boko haram but their master wasted the lives of 40 soldiers without trial for allegedly plotting a coup. Worse still, he was still kicked out by a coup a year later after wasting those innocent lives.
What can be more clueless than that?

homerac7:
@OP

Oga, abeg na which coup plot be that? Mention the major actors of the coup. I'm a Nigerian and find it uncomfortable that a foreign newspaper is telling me a bout a major coup plot in recent time that I never read about in recent history of the country. So Can you please educate us more on this phantom coup that occurred under GMB reign...I want to learn please. By the way, what date was GMB overthrown from power again?

bokohalal:
Only the New York Times and Observer of London have this news, abi?
Would be glad if Buhari wins and executes corrupt public officials.

The institute, whose members include nearly 2,000 editors and publishers in 60 countries, said one of the most striking turnabouts in press freedom this year happened in Nigeria after the military coup
Dec. 31, 1983. The rise to power of the new Nigerian leader, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Buhari, ''severely restricted what was once the freest press in black Africa,' the report said. Many journalists in Nigeria have been jailed under the Government's Decree 4, which calls for prison terms of up to two years for those found guilty of ''false publication.'' ''As such, any story that embarrasses the Government is considered an offense and its authors liable to imprisonment,'' the report said.
Hostile Literature Governments have imprisoned journalists they feel have broken tough press-restriction laws such as
one on carrying ''literature hostile to the state'' in the Sudan, or for criticizing the authorities in
Cameroon, Liberia and Haiti, the report said.

PassingShot:
What is the punishment for failed coup plot?

















It is death anywhere in the world.

Fash20:
Coup de tat is a do or die affair. When you succeed good for you when you are caught the penalty is always death.

NairalandOP:
And the punishment for a successful coup plot? A pat on the back?

SMH for your double standards.

sCun:

Buhari apologists always tell us that Buhari wasn't involved in the 1983 coup, that lie has since been busted.
They tell us that Buhari wasn't desperate to hang on to power that was why IBB overthrew him easily, but this killing of 40 soldiers for plotting a coup proves that he was indeed desperate to retain power. His cluelessness was what made IBB overthrow him easily.