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slurryeye:
Read history for what? That he partook in Biafra war massacre? Then if Karma really knows what it is doing, Yakubu Gowon that was head of the government shouldn't be alive by now. Safe me that Karma bullshiit abeg

Murtala was a killer and a ruthless one at that. Read your history young fella.

Ahmeduana:
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED THAT DAY IS THAT I CAME INTO THIS WORLD!

hbd sir!

tifany89:
I feel pity for the Wya family

Just reading about Wya family spoilt my day. I came imagine what that woman went through.

UncleSnr:
History is no longer being taught in schools.

Hausa/Fulani do not want History to be thought in schools because progressively, Hausa/Fulani recreate the type of New Nigeria they want through bombs and bullets.

Southern groups either quarrel one another or do siddon de look.

Jason

logica:
Really?

Yes... if the ploters succeed, they kill all those loyal to the disposed leader to avoid regrouping and fight back. If they fail in their coup attempt, they all die. They and anyone loyal to them to avoid any future regrouping and re attempt. Both sides, winners and losers would draw blood. The victims would depend on whose side they are in the coup.

DIKEnaWAR:
Murtala was a killer and a ruthless one at that. Read your history young fella.

He also entered through a coup. He left the way he came in.

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delishpot:
Yes... if the ploters succeed, they kill all those loyal to the disposed leader to avoid regrouping and fight back. If they fail in their coup attempt, they all die. They and anyone loyal to them to avoid any future regrouping and re attempt. Both sides, winners and losers would draw blood. The victims would depend on whose side they are in the coup.

How many were killed when Murtala came to power in 1975?

no victory no vangushed this is unforgettable history in Nigeria

But the massacre of innocent unarmed human beings at Asana by Col. Murtala Mohammed and Major Taiwo (as they then were) was uncalled for and one too much. Ironically both died on same day, same spot from same incident. Unfortunately they took many other 'wartime heroes' after the Asaba 'wartime innocents'. RIP to all departed.

logica:
How many were killed when Murtala came to power in 1975?

He was not a part of the coup directly. He only agreedbto save their necks (cos he knows the price one pays for failed coup attempt) if they failed . But he entered office through a coup and left office through a coup.
One person was killed.
Ask any Army General what would happen if a coup attempt goes wrong ESP if the leader removed has very loyal officers behind him.
Coup are ussualy bloody. Even Murtala had blood in his hands. He it was if I am not mistaken was a strong influence in Northern soldiers killing igbo soldiers before the biafra war.

Good riddance .....When ever I visit the museum I always smile at the sight of that benz.....the bastard ought to die...his soul will forever be in hell...If he hadn't died in that coup I would have personally emptied a full magazine into his skull..........die a million death..

allrightsir:
Before Ojukwu declared Independence from Nigeria, he stockpiled weapons...which means he knew there would be war. A man lead his people to war that his own Biafran Generals told him he couldn't win (you read your history) and in the process millions died and his aims were not acheived and it is Muhammed that was a killer? Excuse me if somebody threatens your territirial borders won't you fight to defend it as a trained Army officer?


Again I say read facts not propaganda. Nigeria was actually sending food to the east during the war...this is well documented but like your leaders and elites of today, they were cornering the food supplies for themselves. Please tell me one IGBo elite/soldier that went hungry during the war. Achebe was flying in and out freely. This is why Awo and Gowon decided to halt the food supplies. Nobody gives food to his enemies during a war...but Nigeria did until they realised the food wasn't getting to the intended.



The biggest problem with Igbos are your leaders and your elite, always has been unfortunately for the masses and the rest of Nigeria, their propaganda machinery is second to None.

Instead of blaming Gowon, Murrtala and Awo for doing what you would do if you were in their positions look to the man who took his people to war. Even Chiamanda in her book said it that Ojukwu murdered his people!

War is never pretty so before you declare war, make sure you have a good chance of winning because people WILL die. Ojukwus own men said he couldn't win the war yet he went ahead!!!!

There is a man repeating the same thing, people are dying for his "cause", his wife and family are safe enjoying in Britain. Tommorow you will blame police and DSS


This is the letter if resignation of Biafras own PR representative

"

One of the many aides of the late Biafran leader, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, resigned angrily in August 1968 after accusing him of frustrating international efforts to get food aid across to civilians caught on the wrong side of the civil war.

Robert S. Goldstein, an American and Public Relations Representative of Biafra in the USA, accused the late Ojukwu of using ‘ starving hordes as hostages to negotiate a victory in the war.

His letter of resignation, which was first published by the defunct Morning Post on August 17, 1968, resurfaced in the wake of Prof. Chinua Achebe’s damning condemnation of the role of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo during the war, especially the blockage of food to the rebels.

Goldstein, in the letter, recalled various efforts he made to swing public opinion in Europe and the USA in favour of the defunct Biafra and the subsequent recognition of such countries like Gabon,Tanzania, Zambia, Ivory Coast and Haiti until Ojukwu began to undermine those achievements by “hoping to use these unfortunates with world sympathy on their side as a tool to further your ambition to achieve war concessions at the upcoming peace talks in Addis Ababa.”

(See full letter on page 60)

He said: “Urgent telex messages were received from ‘Biafra’ telling of tens of thousands of people starving in the refugee camps, the villages, the bush country – stating if something weren’t done in the next few months over a million women, children and aged would be starved to death. I immediately contacted the Press, urgently petitioned the State Department for action on their part.

“ Food, medicine and milk were sent to the only available ports open for immediate shipment to ‘Biafra’ via land routes through Federal and Biafra territory, under the auspices of world organisations such as the International Red Cross among others.

“Then came the incredible answer from ‘Biafra’ that land corridors could not be acceptable until there was a complete ceasefire, and that an airlift was the only solution to feed the starving.

“You then appeared before the various Heads of State and representatives of the OAU at Niamey in Niger. I fully expected you to at least accept the world help that was offered your starving throngs. However, you delayed, hoping to use these unfortunates with world sympathy on their side as a tool to further your ambition to achieve war concessions at the upcoming peace talks in Addis Ababa. Thus, innocent victims continue to perish needlessly of starvation, the most agonising death that can befall any living creature.

“I cannot in all conscience serve you any longer. Nor can I be a party to suppressing the fact that your starving thousands have the food, medicine and milk available to them…..it can and is ready to be delivered through international organisations to you. Only your constant refusal has stopped its delivery.”
"

Gowon did not honour the Aburi Accord. No thanks to Awo (ohh he drank rat poison) Ojukwu was left with no choice the massacre in the north was horrible...All biafrans who paid the supreme price will someday be remembered....There are still a million deaths awaiting murtala...

https://newtelegraphonline.com/politics/mum-didnt-commit-suicide-col-wyas-son/


Her kids are all still alive biko!

thank God for today I make a profit of #120,000 .what a great day

allrightsir:
Before Ojukwu declared Independence from Nigeria, he stockpiled weapons...which means he knew there would be war. A man lead his people to war that his own Biafran Generals told him he couldn't win (you read your history) and in the process millions died and his aims were not acheived and it is Muhammed that was a killer? Excuse me if somebody threatens your territirial borders won't you fight to defend it as a trained Army officer?


Again I say read facts not propaganda. Nigeria was actually sending food to the east during the war...this is well documented but like your leaders and elites of today, they were cornering the food supplies for themselves. Please tell me one IGBo elite/soldier that went hungry during the war. Achebe was flying in and out freely. This is why Awo and Gowon decided to halt the food supplies. Nobody gives food to his enemies during a war...but Nigeria did until they realised the food wasn't getting to the intended.



The biggest problem with Igbos are your leaders and your elite, always has been unfortunately for the masses and the rest of Nigeria, their propaganda machinery is second to None.

Instead of blaming Gowon, Murrtala and Awo for doing what you would do if you were in their positions look to the man who took his people to war. Even Chiamanda in her book said it that Ojukwu murdered his people!

War is never pretty so before you declare war, make sure you have a good chance of winning because people WILL die. Ojukwus own men said he couldn't win the war yet he went ahead!!!!

There is a man repeating the same thing, people are dying for his "cause", his wife and family are safe enjoying in Britain. Tommorow you will blame police and DSS


This is the letter if resignation of Biafras own PR representative

"

One of the many aides of the late Biafran leader, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, resigned angrily in August 1968 after accusing him of frustrating international efforts to get food aid across to civilians caught on the wrong side of the civil war.

Robert S. Goldstein, an American and Public Relations Representative of Biafra in the USA, accused the late Ojukwu of using ‘ starving hordes as hostages to negotiate a victory in the war.

His letter of resignation, which was first published by the defunct Morning Post on August 17, 1968, resurfaced in the wake of Prof. Chinua Achebe’s damning condemnation of the role of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo during the war, especially the blockage of food to the rebels.

Goldstein, in the letter, recalled various efforts he made to swing public opinion in Europe and the USA in favour of the defunct Biafra and the subsequent recognition of such countries like Gabon,Tanzania, Zambia, Ivory Coast and Haiti until Ojukwu began to undermine those achievements by “hoping to use these unfortunates with world sympathy on their side as a tool to further your ambition to achieve war concessions at the upcoming peace talks in Addis Ababa.”

(See full letter on page 60)

He said: “Urgent telex messages were received from ‘Biafra’ telling of tens of thousands of people starving in the refugee camps, the villages, the bush country – stating if something weren’t done in the next few months over a million women, children and aged would be starved to death. I immediately contacted the Press, urgently petitioned the State Department for action on their part.

“ Food, medicine and milk were sent to the only available ports open for immediate shipment to ‘Biafra’ via land routes through Federal and Biafra territory, under the auspices of world organisations such as the International Red Cross among others.

“Then came the incredible answer from ‘Biafra’ that land corridors could not be acceptable until there was a complete ceasefire, and that an airlift was the only solution to feed the starving.

“You then appeared before the various Heads of State and representatives of the OAU at Niamey in Niger. I fully expected you to at least accept the world help that was offered your starving throngs. However, you delayed, hoping to use these unfortunates with world sympathy on their side as a tool to further your ambition to achieve war concessions at the upcoming peace talks in Addis Ababa. Thus, innocent victims continue to perish needlessly of starvation, the most agonising death that can befall any living creature.

“I cannot in all conscience serve you any longer. Nor can I be a party to suppressing the fact that your starving thousands have the food, medicine and milk available to them…..it can and is ready to be delivered through international organisations to you. Only your constant refusal has stopped its delivery.”
"

White man created your territorial borders.

Crude oil in the Niger delta makes you fight to preserve the territorial borders, borders that even you would have loved to be recreated because Nigeria is dysfunctional.
Millions of people, including your Murtala Mohammed, have so far been killed in attempts to reject what a white man created to serve as his country's ATM.

Continue with your crude oil patriotism in disguise for love for one failed country, Nigeria.

slurryeye:
Read history for what? That he partook in Biafra war massacre? Then if Karma really knows what it is doing, Yakubu Gowon that was head of the government shouldn't be alive by now. Safe me that Karma bullshiit abeg

Gowon was the nicest of all Nigerian soliders. Gowon was ready to sign Aburi and prevent the war but Awo(thank heavens he took the otapiapia) corrupted his mind. Gowon has a large heart. Did you Murtala and Gowon are enemies? Till the death of the monster

CuteMorriz:
Gowon was the nicest of all Nigerian soliders. Gowon was ready to sign Aburi and prevent the war but Awo(thank heavens he took the otapiapia) corrupted his mind. Gowon has a large heart. Did you Murtala and Gowon are enemies? Till the death of the monster

Thank you for twisting history so terribly. Do you know Awolowo was in prison in Calabar when the Aburi accord was agreed on? But guess what, your tribal bigotry wont allow you to reason well. And why won't Gowon be enemy with Murtala when it was Murtala that overthrown his government. And for christ sake stop making the silly point that awo committed suicide. If a man that died at the ripe age of 78 commits suicide, then I guess Ojukwu and Azikiwe committed suicide too
And did you say Gowon was the nicest Nigeria soldier? I'm sure you're not aware that Dimka that assasinated Murtala did so with Gowon acknowledgement

We should give a fvck, why?

DIKEnaWAR:
Murtala was a killer and a ruthless one at that. Read your history young fella.

Show me any soldier that's not a killer. You keep saying read your history. What's there to read, that Murtala committed war crime in Asaba? Which commander at both side didn't commit war crime? Do you forget that Ojukwu and Biafran soldiers committed same atrocity when they invaded mid west? And don't let us forget extra judicial killing of Banjo and Ifeajuna by Ojukwu. So cut me that crap that Murtala got served for what he did because the last time I checked Aguiyi-ironsi didn't partake in the 1st 1966 coup and he was brutally murdered in the 2nd coup. If your Karma is sensible enough, someone like IBB and Gowon shouldn't be alive today.

delishpot:
He also entered through a coup. He left the way he came in.

If I remember correctly, it was a bloodless coup. So what are you saying?

freecocoa:
We should give a fvck, why?

Because is your history smh

slurryeye:
Thank you for twisting history so terribly. Do you know Awolowo was in prison in Calabar when the Aburi accord was agreed on? But guess what your tribal bigotry want allow you to reason well. And why won't Gowon be enemy with Murtala when it was Murtala that overthrown his government. And for christ sake stop making the silly point that awo committed suicide. If a man that died at the ripe age of 78 commits suicide, then I guess Ojukwu and Azikiwe committed suicide too
And did you say Gowon was the nicest Nigeria soldier? I'm sure you're not aware that Dimka that assasinated Murtala did so with Gowon acknowledgement

I agree with you on the bolded

majamajic:
Unescorted Mercedes benz , unlike now.

Yea unlike now with sirens blazing

Thank God for avenging the deaths of Innocent women, children and old men of Asaba. Murtala Mohammed will rot in he'll fire!
Dimka remains a hero, until Nigeria appreciate that nothing good is coming here except zeros like Buhari.

... Vengeance belongs to God. However, karma is real and it usually serves her food very coldly. The innocent women, children and adults massacred in Asaba in a cold blood shall never be forgotten.

austino3050:
Do Know What Happened On Feb 13th 1976?

Friday the 13th, particularly when it occurs in February, is deemed a very unlucky day in Western superstition. For certain, a lot of people in the Europe and America have come to believe the day holds a lot of ill luck. Hollywood has even produced horror film franchises based on the theme. The superstition like many others, have been strengthened by individual claims of some ill event like a sack, divorce or accident happening to them either on a February 13th or a Friday the 13th. The word, friggatriskaidekaphobia, meaning, the fear of Friday the 13th derived its origins in Norse mythology.

Despite insufficient proof to support the ill-fated day, Friday, 13 February 1976 sticks out in Nigeria’s history as a day that brought a string of bad fortune to many in Nigeria. Nigeria’s Head of State was brutally assassinated on his way to his office on that fateful day. His unescorted Mercedes Benz car was riddled with bullets killing all four passengers including General Murtala Mohammed.

Luck also ran out on the perpetrators of the coup as it was botched by troops loyal to Mohammed’s regime. Buka Dimka, his sponsors and accomplices were summarily rounded up and shot in a firing squad weeks after the coup.

The most tragic tale from this Friday the 13th saga was the erroneous arrest and execution of one Col. A.D.S Wya for complicity in the coup. At the time of his arrest, Colonel Wya had been the Commander of the Corps of the Artillery and an accomplished wartime hero. His story is most unfortunate because his British wife had sought even the assistance of her home government to prove her husband’s innocence to no avail. In the end, Wya was executed. Col. Wya among a host of other officers and men were later exonerated from plotting and participating in the Dimka coup. But it was now too late. Having lost all hope and sensibility, Mrs. Wya drove into a train in Kaduna killing herself and her four children. Col. Way’s disconsolate younger brother equally committed suicide at the demise of his brother.

Indeed Friday, February 13th 1976 should never be forgotten in Nigeria

Col Wya was well served! He was such a tribalist and an ingrate. Rtd General Alexander Madiebo gave him his place in a high profile Artillery course in England just before the coup that overthrew Ironsi. Madiebo also secured accelerated promotion for him so he could cater for his British wife but he still organised an assassination squad for his loving and caring commander who had a miraculous escape. During the July 29th, 1966 coup his devilish exploits together with Major Abba Kyari where they massacred their fellow officers are well documented. So you see, he got paid back by the very evil North he served and worshipped!

Case closed!

allrightsir:
Before Ojukwu declared Independence from Nigeria, he stockpiled weapons...which means he knew there would be war. A man lead his people to war that his own Biafran Generals told him he couldn't win (you read your history) and in the process millions died and his aims were not acheived and it is Muhammed that was a killer? Excuse me if somebody threatens your territirial borders won't you fight to defend it as a trained Army officer?


Again I say read facts not propaganda. Nigeria was actually sending food to the east during the war...this is well documented but like your leaders and elites of today, they were cornering the food supplies for themselves. Please tell me one IGBo elite/soldier that went hungry during the war. Achebe was flying in and out freely. This is why Awo and Gowon decided to halt the food supplies. Nobody gives food to his enemies during a war...but Nigeria did until they realised the food wasn't getting to the intended.



The biggest problem with Igbos are your leaders and your elite, always has been unfortunately for the masses and the rest of Nigeria, their propaganda machinery is second to None.

Instead of blaming Gowon, Murrtala and Awo for doing what you would do if you were in their positions look to the man who took his people to war. Even Chiamanda in her book said it that Ojukwu murdered his people!

War is never pretty so before you declare war, make sure you have a good chance of winning because people WILL die. Ojukwus own men said he couldn't win the war yet he went ahead!!!!

There is a man repeating the same thing, people are dying for his "cause", his wife and family are safe enjoying in Britain. Tommorow you will blame police and DSS


This is the letter if resignation of Biafras own PR representative

"

One of the many aides of the late Biafran leader, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, resigned angrily in August 1968 after accusing him of frustrating international efforts to get food aid across to civilians caught on the wrong side of the civil war.

Robert S. Goldstein, an American and Public Relations Representative of Biafra in the USA, accused the late Ojukwu of using ‘ starving hordes as hostages to negotiate a victory in the war.

His letter of resignation, which was first published by the defunct Morning Post on August 17, 1968, resurfaced in the wake of Prof. Chinua Achebe’s damning condemnation of the role of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo during the war, especially the blockage of food to the rebels.

Goldstein, in the letter, recalled various efforts he made to swing public opinion in Europe and the USA in favour of the defunct Biafra and the subsequent recognition of such countries like Gabon,Tanzania, Zambia, Ivory Coast and Haiti until Ojukwu began to undermine those achievements by “hoping to use these unfortunates with world sympathy on their side as a tool to further your ambition to achieve war concessions at the upcoming peace talks in Addis Ababa.”

(See full letter on page 60)

He said: “Urgent telex messages were received from ‘Biafra’ telling of tens of thousands of people starving in the refugee camps, the villages, the bush country – stating if something weren’t done in the next few months over a million women, children and aged would be starved to death. I immediately contacted the Press, urgently petitioned the State Department for action on their part.

“ Food, medicine and milk were sent to the only available ports open for immediate shipment to ‘Biafra’ via land routes through Federal and Biafra territory, under the auspices of world organisations such as the International Red Cross among others.

“Then came the incredible answer from ‘Biafra’ that land corridors could not be acceptable until there was a complete ceasefire, and that an airlift was the only solution to feed the starving.

“You then appeared before the various Heads of State and representatives of the OAU at Niamey in Niger. I fully expected you to at least accept the world help that was offered your starving throngs. However, you delayed, hoping to use these unfortunates with world sympathy on their side as a tool to further your ambition to achieve war concessions at the upcoming peace talks in Addis Ababa. Thus, innocent victims continue to perish needlessly of starvation, the most agonising death that can befall any living creature.

“I cannot in all conscience serve you any longer. Nor can I be a party to suppressing the fact that your starving thousands have the food, medicine and milk available to them…..it can and is ready to be delivered through international organisations to you. Only your constant refusal has stopped its delivery.”
"

For the love of God, Murtala Mohandas killed unarmed people who came to welcome him at the airport. They didn't charge at Murtala with guns, they came with drums and musical instruments for Christ sake and that blood thirsty man ordered their deaths.

This history is well documented. The survivors are still alive. Someone on twitter twitted how his Father saved by his senior brother who died there. Bishop Chukwuma told the story of how his Senior brother was killed in Oputa panel. Now these people were mainly teenagers, kids when Murtala committed this genocide.

However, to God be the glory.

slurryeye:
Because is your history smh

Who nigerian history help? Abeg go sleep.

Oh it was on this day he died , ah me no know o , eeyah RIP sir , but Nigeria don dabaru oo

freecocoa:
Who nigerian history help? Abeg go sleep.

It's actually 4.30pm where I am. Is people like you that will be shouting recession upandan but not knowing that with little knowledge of history, you would have positioned yourself well before the calamity