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Dechymmytv:
The date is Wednesday, April 12 1972.


I stumbled upon this Footage of the execution by firing squad of a man convicted of armed robbery in Nigeria. The execution took place at Victoria Island's Bar Beach in Lagos.

Footage of this execution was used in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 film, "The Passenger", which starred Jack Nicholson as a television journalist traveling in Africa. The scene was fictionalised as the execution of a political leader.

Watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i3dIB2gcmQ

Source: Routers News Archives

Came4amod:
He said his words were used against him ..just because he was looking clean .. in those days .. if you have been tried in the court .. when they want to execute the take time to clean up the person .. and since they were filming they gave him the best of treatment

stagger:
You are such an incorrigible liar.

Mamman Vatsa, Ben Ekele and others who were executed in 1986 were executed behind closed doors. Lt-Gen. Domkat Bali only announced it to the nation after the executions had already been carried out.

There was no access to the public. No one knew the date it was scheduled for. So how could you have not eaten because you missed it? You never knew the date or time except you were in the AFRC.

You can only deceive the Indomie generation. We the older ones cannot be deceived.

Dechymmytv:
sorry makinde is not the only person who has access to routers news archive
. How could you even say that, was it makinde that made the videos..

patwilly:
The fact you can't even "Reuters" well says a lot. No be only you get access to Internet. Many people here no be only nairaland dem they come. We the know what's up ..

Dechymmytv:
come and kill me I'm in house ,bad belle ,smh

LabDNA:
What do you infer by 'just because he was looking clean'? Are you educated at all?

LabDNA:
Those guy's words pierced my soul, he may have been innocent and a victim of false witness by someone who wanted to get rid of him.

The case file of this guy should be reopened, I have a strong feeling the military junta killed an innocent man here.

franchasng:
I totally agree with you. Nigeria don't need to listen to the western world, we need to re-introduce death sentence with efficient law courts to make it faster to execute kidnappers, armed robbers, ritualists, and terrorists like Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen, that's the only way to reduce crime rate in Nigeria.

Imagine Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Lagos-Ore-Benin highway, Abuja-Kaduna highway, etc are now death traps all because of these criminal bastards!!

Imagine how kidnappers have chased successful people from going back to their various communities to invest and develop the communities all because if you dare, these useless criminals called kidnappers will kidnap you or your relative after you do....


Nigeria really need to bring back death sentence and make the judgment fast and quick but efficient in order to reduce crime by discouraging upcoming and potential criminals


God forgive me, I don't have pity for armed robbers, kidnappers, ritualistis and their likes.....I hate them with passion

Came4amod:
My instincts just said that no need to insult .. get ur attitude fixed man

stagger:
You are such an incorrigible liar.

Mamman Vatsa, Ben Ekele and others who were executed in 1986 were executed behind closed doors. Lt-Gen. Domkat Bali only announced it to the nation after the executions had already been carried out.

There was no access to the public. No one knew the date it was scheduled for. So how could you have not eaten because you missed it? You never knew the date or time except you were in the AFRC.

You can only deceive the Indomie generation. We the older ones cannot be deceived.

espionagesavvy:
In 1992 I was sentenced to be shot by firing squads for a crime I did not commit. I remember when the judge read the sentence I did not understand the gravity of the sentencing. My lawyer Barrister Imafidon God rest his soul looked quite worried, he promised me he was going to appeal the sentencing but I remember looking at his face, I knew all hope was lost. We were 3 men sentenced for same crime, I made a terrible choice, I paid dearly for it, but I didn't deserve to die for that.

Fast forward on the 3rd of April 1993, the faithful Saturday night, they warden sent in 2 priest to keep us company, that night seemed too surreal, sitting, shivering in my sweat. One of the priest was dozing, the other one was consoling the Danny boy the youngest in the gang who had been wailing throughout the night. Dedon glues the eldest of us all stood throughout the night staring out at the window, from that's window he was taken out and shot on the 4th of April.

I remember Danny boy ran mad that night, he bit off the fingers of the priest. It was a night of what ifs and regret for me. For the first time I appreciated the gift of peace of mind watching the second priest doze. I sat on the floor the whole night, I urinated on my self and didn't even notice. I remember vividly when around 4.am the burgled called and the soldiers began their morning parade, I had prayed that the night should not end, that the world should end, that this should be a dream. I maimed myself sleeping in a bed maybe with a wife. I thought of my family, my parents...

Immediately after the parade ended, I could hear the soldiers come upstairs and dragged Danny boy, the young chap cried like a baby, Dedon glues stood by the window like a statue, he didn't move. I heard them give orders and shot the poor boy, samething happened for dedon glues, they had to tie Danny boy, but dedon glues requested not to be tied to the pole.

Before all these, our lawyer had bribed the soldiers to aim for the heart or head, if you didn't pay bribe, they would suffer you by intentionally shooting at your limbs.

After dedon was shot around 4:50 am, I waited my turn, I had stood up, although I was not at peace with myself, I felt suicidal, I was ready to die. I made up my mind I would laugh while they shot, I suddenly did not care if I loved or died. After an hour the soldiers didn't show up, 2 hours no soldiers, 5 hours no soldiers, around 3 they finally came.

To cut story shot, instead of taking me to the parade ground, they took me to the brigadier office where a small crowd of prisoners were being interviewed, when it got to my turn, The brigadier asked me the crime I committed, funnily I beastly responded that he had my file and thus look it up himself, he calmly explained that if he should go with what is on my file which is the trumped up charges and verdict of the judge then he would ask his men to beat me to death. He told my story and asked him to tell his men to be quick if they were shooting me on that day. The man looked at me, and told me to leave his prison. While leaving I saw then loading the dead bodies of my friends that had been shot in a pickup wagon.

madgoat:
But he speaks and acts like a flatron. We can safely assume he is flatron.

Dechymmytv:
come and kill me I'm in house ,bad belle ,smh

Susu888:
Back when nigeria was working not now that the law enforcers are the armed robbers

Jakumo:
Footage showing the 1971 firing squad shooting of armed robbery kingpin "Dr." Ishola Oyenusi, is still bouncing around youtube.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3JvfEMwpF4

In the above footage, Dr. Oyenusi marches confidently to the execution stakes, despite his leg chains, at the 31 second mark. Dr. Oyenusi's calm and stoic demeanor stands in contrast to the obvious despair of his fellow travelers as they are tied up, causing one to lose his mind and babble maniacally until the last instant, while the rest appeared to slump into a state of semi-consciousness even before the final rites were offered by clergy, moments before the order to fire rang out.

Even at the 1 minute 50 second mark as the rifles boomed, Dr. Oyenusi shows few outward signs of feeling the impact tonnage applied by those red hot bullets, long after the others had sagged against their ropes. A career armed robber renowned for showing no mercy, Dr. Oyenusi showed no fear even at the moment when all others around him lost their sanity in the face of impending death.

And so it was that Dr. Oyenusi entered Nigerian folklore, as the quintessential arch-villain who lived and died by the gun.

Dechymmytv:
we've been banned multiple times ,4numbers already

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