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Rest on people. Comfort to the bereaved families. I was on top of that same bridge enroute the Island yesterday. Such a sad but recurrent and preventable incidents on Nigerian roads.

Imagine an articulated vehicle moving with a 40 foot metallic container dangling from its flat back unstrapped in an area full of human activities. The authority concerned kept on playing with the sanctity of human lives

They are fond of banding crazy figures because they know they are not honest with anything they do. They know nobody in his right thinking senses will love them except for the corrupt monies they share.

What an inspirational story. A struggling young man willingly helping others.

Meanwhile, the sophisticated tax master of Lagos thinks taking subsidy savings and then taxing people is economic prosperity.

Of course! You will never see any American, British or European tyrannical despots taken to the ICC. It is only Africans, Asians or any other people they deem powerless.

Hehehe! Ebinpawa! Yet they said this is the best thing after slice bread. Make una continue.

Does a rubber-stamped crooked and corrupt stooges have any conscience of their own before? Continue if borrowing is a good way of life. Nigeria will witness all your wicked decisions lead into.

Unfortunate catastrophe of this kind can be caused by any factor any where. So let it not be narrowed to the US only. Meanwhile the frequency of small civil and military plane crashes is no go kill person.

Seems the sophisticated agbero gangsterism baba soope brand of Lagos politics is too strong for them.

Hehehe! Same man that is romancing those who told him they have made the country's healthcare system fine but kept on going to cosy foreign hospitals for healthcare

Awolowo had a charade trial no doubt but the turning around to betray the eastern region during the brutal civil war didn't end well for him.

lionshare:
Do you prefer a decline in GDP?

Does the unfortunate fellas plaguing the hapless citizens of this nation appreciate what the GDP is today? Per person capital GDP is the best index of assessment not even the GDP of a nation.

A GDP growth in background of worsening hardship, increasing cost of living, worsening reducing power, increased govt borrowing, double-digit inflation, is not in tandem is nothing to write home about

See the lame response of a garrulous criminal to weighty allegations. Waiting for the Florida authority investigation of this corruption.

What happened to the highly famed IGR generated and being banded as development in that state? Ogun state has great potentials quiet alright, but plagued with bad leadership.

Meanwhile, it has all been mute, mum, deaf and dumb from the yahoo-boys macho-muscle wielding EFCC, NPF and even the DSS that claims one of its core mandate is to fight financial crime for which it broke into judges houses in Gestapo style in 2016. What a country led by hardened criminals

Meanwhile, nobody rarely talk about how northern soldiers of that preceding that era that went on rampage with in the rotating musical chair game of plotting coup after coup

Not even against people from other region as they did Aguiyi ironsi but their own brothers In Power, this shows how greedy they are for power. Almost all of them that served in the military wanted power by all means.

"Sometimes loyalty and integrity do turn itself into a two edged-sword that pierce the custodian, as your blunt disposition will be misunderstood by the people you always devoted your dedicated service into their wellbeing."

He knew about the 1st coup and reported it but he was severely punished. So how do you expect him to report the second? So much injustice in the warped Nigerian state from antiquity where the best brains are being wasted and pushed out of the system by the greedy and wicked caste.

Injustice and corruption has been Nigerians modus operandi. All Nigerian past military leaders are heartless and notorious with the way had achieved all they want. Rest on loyal soldier.

MAJOR DANIEL IDOWU BAMIDELE: THE LOYAL SOLDIER BETRAYED BY THE SYSTEM HE SERVED. UNKNOWN TO BAMIDELE AT THE TIME, BUHARI WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE PLANNING OF THE COUP HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO ALERT THE ARMY AGAINST.

On March 5, 1986, Major Daniel Idowu Bamidele, a brilliant and decorated officer of the Nigerian Army, was executed by firing squad alongside nine other military personnel. His alleged crime was conspiracy to commit treason linked to the popular "Vatsa Coup" against the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.

Yet, Bamidele’s story was not that of rebellion, but of a loyal officer punished for remaining silent. His silence was a consequence of an earlier betrayal that had shaken his faith in the very system he served.

Born in 1949, Bamidele joined the Nigerian Army in 1968 during the height of the Nigerian Civil War. He was initially recruited as a non-commissioned officer and was posted to the 12th Commando Brigade, where he fought under Colonel Benjamin Adekunle and later Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo.

His competence and leadership on the battlefield earned him a recommendation for officer training, and he was commissioned into the Nigerian Army on July 29, 1970 after completing training at the Nigerian Defence Academy.

In October 1983, during an official trip to Kaduna to print documents for the Chief of Army Staff Conference, Bamidele overheard rumours of a coup being planned to oust President Shehu Shagari.

On returning to Jos, he acted promptly and responsibly by reporting the intelligence to his General Officer Commanding, Major General Muhammadu Buhari. Unknown to Bamidele at the time, Buhari was deeply involved in the planning of the coup he was attempting to alert the army against.

Within days of his report, Bamidele was quietly summoned to Lagos and detained at Tego Barracks by officers of the Directorate of Military Intelligence. He was accused of plotting a coup, the very one he had tried to prevent.

Fake witnesses were presented, a mock interrogation was conducted, and false reports were submitted to the National Security Organisation, then under the leadership of Umaru Shinkafi, in an effort to mislead the Shagari government. While the real coup plotters carried on with their plans, Bamidele languished in detention. Eventually, on November 25, 1983, he was released without charge due to the complete absence of evidence against him.

He returned to Jos bewildered by the series of events that had just unfolded. The shocking truth came to light on January 1, 1984 when his former GOC, Major General Muhammadu Buhari whom he had reported the coup plot to announced himself as Nigeria’s new Head of State, having seized power in a military coup, validating everything Bamidele had feared and proving the betrayal he had suffered. After his experience, Bamidele wisely chose to remain silent about any subsequent coup plots.

In early 1984, Bamidele’s name appeared on a list of officers to be compulsorily retired. When the list was presented to Head of State Buhari for approval, he struck Bamidele’s name off the list, reason unclear, possibly acknowledging the injustice of his prior ordeal. Instead, Bamidele was posted to the Command and Staff College in Jaji as a Directing Staff, where he resumed his duties.

The events that led to his execution began in 1985, following General Babangida’s overthrow of Buhari. Not long after assuming office, Babangida’s intelligence network claimed it had uncovered a plot to remove him from power.

At the center of this alleged conspiracy was Major General Mamman Vatsa, Babangida’s childhood friend and then Minister of the Federal Capital Territory. Bamidele was implicated in the conspiracy based on his attendance at a meeting in a guest house in Makurdi.

That meeting included other senior officers such as Lieutenant Colonel Michael Iyorshe, Lieutenant Colonel Musa Bitiyong, Lieutenant Colonel Christian Oche, Wing Commander Ben Ekele, and Wing Commander Adamu Sakaba.

Although political discussions and criticisms of the Babangida regime took place during the gathering, there was no evidence of operational coup planning. However, Bamidele, still haunted by his 1983 ordeal, chose to remain silent. It was that silence that became the basis for the charge of conspiracy to commit treason.

He was arrested and tried by a Special Military Tribunal. The trial was conducted in secret, with no right of appeal, and little opportunity for fair defense. Despite the absence of clear evidence linking him to any actual plot, Bamidele was found guilty.

Before he was executed, he delivered a powerful, solemn statement, a statement that has since become one of the most quoted last words in Nigerian military history.He said:

“I heard of the 1983 coup planning, told my GOC General Buhari who detained me for two weeks in Lagos. Instead of a pat on the back, I received a stab. How then do you expect me to report this one?

This trial marks the eclipse of my brilliant and unblemished career of 19 years. I fought in the civil war with the ability it pleased God to give me. It is unfortunate that I'm being convicted for something which I have had to stop on two occasions.

This is not self-adulation but a sincere summary of the qualities inherent in me. It is an irony of fate that the president of the tribunal who in 1964 felt that I was good enough to take training in the UK is now saddled with the duty of showing me the exit from the force and the world.”

On March 5, 1986, Major Daniel Idowu Bamidele was executed by firing squad at Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison. Among those executed with him were Major General Mamman Vatsa, Lieutenant Colonel Musa Bitiyong, Lieutenant Colonel Christian Oche, Wing Commander A.A. Togun, Wing Commander Ben Ekele, and Wing Commander Adamu Sakaba.

Major Bamidele’s life and death remain a haunting reminder of the dangers faced by soldiers of conscience. His ordeal reflects the cost of honour in a system where truth was expendable and power was absolute. He was a soldier punished for doing the right thing once, and then punished again for refusing to be used.

Today, his name stands as a symbol of tragic integrity, a man who paid the ultimate price for trusting his superiors and remaining loyal to the oath he swore.

Rest in power, Major Daniel Idowu Bamidele. Nigerians will never forget you.

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Just imagine what a supposed productive youth is doing in a country with failed leadership and crunching national problems. See what they have reduced a serious national issue like governance into.

Oga you can go to hell for all it cares. Aba - Abia State is making and will continue to make progress with or without you.

The is one major negative of the social media world despite that it has revolutionalized social networking.

The criminal side of its kept on evolving despite measures to checkmate them. Only the greedy and gullible fellas often fell victims.

Humn! Soldiers running away from the same terrorists they have been doing operation safe corridors for?

Welcome baby 🐥 Imagine the agony of seemly endless waiting. I waited 6 years for my own. God be praised for you sir. Many hearty congratulations family

iwaeda:
How did we get here and we can't curtailed all these criminals.

This is when the likes of Buhari, Tinubu, Lai Mohammed, Femi Adeshina, and all APC member started rationalizing the atrocious and treasonable activities of these criminals.

Imagine Yakubu Baraje from the Kwara state in 2015 saying the APC brought in foreign Fulanis to help them win the presidential election that year and no security agency has picked him up.

Imagine! Kwara state that was unheard off as far as insecurity is concerned. Terrorists are now holding it to ransome in a sovereign country. This is true definition of a failed state and country.

I don't understand what all these Tinubu's supporters chop.

What nonsense! What is the members business coming or church braless.

Just imagine the audacity. This is the same army that has been recycling these killers as repentant, debilitating and deradicalised terrorists?

Seems their Waterloo always comes faster when their loots are taken or located abroad. Govt of criminals.