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OkCornel:
Where you come from, is a question an expression of opinion? 🤷

And for the proof that soldiers willingly followed Nzeogwu - did you read through the screenshot I uploaded from Max Siollun’s work in previous post? 🤷

Let me guess, you pretended not to see it.

142. When this force left the DAMISSA exercise area, it was led by Major Nzeogwu who was travelling in a landrover accompanied by a driver and two OR's. He was followed by another landrover containing Sgts. Adebiyi, Manga and Oyegoke who were armed with two 84mm Carl Gustav Anti-Tank Guns and 6 projectiles.



143. Following this were a number of other vehicles, landrovers and 3-Tonner containing 2/Lts. Waribor and Omeruah and troops from "C" Coy 3rd BN NA.



144. On arrival at the main gate to the compound, Major Nzeogwu found 4 PCs on guard in front of the gate. They were the following:


(1) No.8301 L/Cpl. Musa Nimzo


(2) No. 10674 PC. Akpan Anduka


(3) No. 18913 PC Hagai Lai


(4) No. 18920 PC Peter Attah

Major Nzeogwu, who was armed with a sterling SMG, ordered the constables to face the wall. Attah complied with this order but the three others refused. Without further ado, Major Nzeogwu immediately opened fire on them with his SMG killing all three on the spot.



146. Immediately after the killing of the policemen, Major Nzeogwu ordered the two men with the guns and the 3 NMTC Sergeants to follow him into the compound, bringing with them the Carl Gustav guns and the projectiles for these weapons.



147. Immediately inside the compound, Major Nzeogwu stationed the Carl Gustavs some 10 yards apart facing the lodge. The gunners were Sgts. Oyegeke and Manga, whilst Sgt. Adebiyi acted as ammunition number. As soon as both guns had been loaded, Major Nzeogwu ordered the NCOs to open fire at the Lodge. Both fired their projectiles bursting inside the ground floor rooms of the building. Sgt. Adebiyi stated that he then ran towards Sgt. Manga to help this NCO reload. Whilst he was with Manga he heard Major Nzeogwu shouting repeatedly "Fire you bastard, fire". Immediately after this both Manga and Adebiyi heard a burst of SMG fire. They turned round and observed Sgt. Oyegoke slumped on the ground bleeding from multiple wounds. It was clear to both that their colleague had been killed by Major Nzeogwu either for refusing to obey or because he attempted to run away.



143. After the killing of Oyegeke, Major Nzeogwu ordered Sgt. Adebiyi to take over Oyegeke's gun and to continue firing at the house. Both Adebiyi and Manga, frightened by Oyegoke's killing, continued to fire as ordered. They used a total of 5 projectiles. As a result the building caught fire.

OkCornel:
Blame Max Siollun once more…See screenshot

Again, show me where I stated the northerners were unhappy with the Balewa/Azikwe govt enough to want the sardauna dead.

I’m patiently waiting.

OkCornel:
So you can’t tell us anywhere I categorically stated the northerners were unhappy with the Balewa/Azikwe govt enough to want the sardauna dead?

And you mistook my questions for a conclusion? 🤷

OkCornel:
And if you were following that thread without selective memory/reasoning, you would notice I established my position by corroborating with different historians. Max Siollun (Inside story of Nigeria’s first coup), Wale Ademoyega (why we struck), Segun Johnson (In selected Nigerian problems).

If you can corroborate the bolded part I pointed out on the thread with other history reports/first hand accounts, then let’s have it.

For example, who saw Ifeajuna and the Eastern Premier together in Enugu after the coup in Lagos earlier that day? Was it the soldier that kept the eastern premier under house arrest? Did that soldier grant any interview you can provide us with? Basic logic and common sense approach before taking a position.

Well, unless you’re telling us you can hastily conclude by hearing just one part of the story 🤷

Besides it’s common sense.

By the way, how does this approach automatically translate to me discrediting the special branch report? 🤷

OkCornel:
Can you point out where exactly I concluded the northerners were unhappy with the Balewa/Azikwe govt enough to want the sardunna dead?

OkCornel:
Dumb assertion? 🤦‍♂️

You can’t tell the difference between questions or conclusions/assertions?

Were you blind to the question marks?

Can you show us where I 👉discredited👈 the special branch report? 🤷

OkCornel:
So the special branch report written by foremost military historian - Nowamagbe Omoigui is infantile revisionism?

Can you show me where exactly I said the bolded part of your quote? 🤷

OkCornel:
The past cannot be undone and that generation has made their mistakes.

Why does it trigger you though?

Christistruth02:
Because Ojukwu was one big 419

OkCornel:
So years after the event, did Ademoyega label it an “Igbo” coup? 🤷

KwaraRat:
Ojukwu never believed in Biafra .

You died for nothing .

Dat one, na double wahala for the deadi body o.........................and the owner of the deadi body

OkCornel:
Ok, thanks for letting us know July 1966 was an anti-Igbo coup in retaliation to the Nigerian coup of January 1966.

January 1966 was a Nigerian coup undertaken by patriots sick and tired of the corruption in the first republic.

Certified by Wale Ademoyega, Segun Johnson, Max Siollun, the special branch report etc.

OkCornel:
Ok, how kind of you to let us know that Wale Ademoyega never had a mind of his own.

If you can believe I’m Igbo without any shred of evidence, well… it already says a lot about your thought process.

By the way, are the researchers from the University of Southern Florida, United States also Igbos for concluding the January 1966 coup was not an “Igbo” coup? 🤷

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=178715

https://www.nairaland.com/482093/jan-66-coup-planned-revolutionaries

OkCornel:
Would you label the July 1966 coup a “Nigerian” coup in view of how lopsided the victims were? 🤷

OkCornel:
One of the coup plotters - Wale Ademoyega clearly debunked the “Igbo” coup narrative.

OkCornel:
As I mentioned earlier, Arthur Unegbe was the only casualty of Igbo origin in the coup.

I’ll post the screenshot of the casualties when Nairaland allows me upload screenshots again.

Either later tonight or tomorrow.

franchasofficia:
It was never an Igbo coup, there were more Igbos in top echelon of Nigeria's military after independence, so it was natural to have more Igbo officers participate than any other tribe.


When Nzeogwu and his men arrived Ahmadu Bello's official residence in Kaduna, Nzeogwu was not armed cos he was their instructor and commander but the rest of the soldiers drawn from different Nigerian tribes had guns loaded with bullets. When Nzeogwu announced their mission to arrest Ahmadu Bello dead or alive, the Northern soldiers among his team ought to have resisted if they weren't in support of his mission.


Obey the last order is not when it involves coup. You don't just drag someone to join a coup, all coupists always have a gentleman agreement because they know it's a deadly mission. Nobody gets forced to join coup, if it's against your will, you resist and can even shoot because you are not obeying the legitimate military order but an order against the military ethics.


They only formed ignorance after the coup failed and they discovered that the top Igbo politicians and military officers were not killed like those from their tribe. But saying they were forced to join the coup is pure lies, go and watch Major Nzeogwu's broadcast about this issue of saying he forced the none Igbos soldiers to join the coup.




The record must be set straight.


Did the young Igbo officers that carried out the coup did the right thing? NO, they messed things up.

But was the coup an Igbo coup? Hell NO it wasn't because they never consulted Igbo communities or community leaders or sociocultural groups to get Igbo people's approval to embark on a coup, so calling it an Igbo coup just to use the opportunity to incite every other Nigerian tribe against Igbos and set Igbos up for genocide was the highest form of man's inhumanity to fellow man and Nigeria will continue paying the price of that wickedness until you all repent and seek for full Igbo forgiveness by coming out clean to apologize and make some redress.



If not, that injustice will never let Nigeria progress beyond where it is as a nation no jokes

OkCornel:
Tell that to Gowon and the non-Igbo military officers.

wtf

OkCornel:
Well, Nzeogwu was an incorruptible idealist whose detractors never even questioned his motives behind the January 1966 coup.

He was highly respected by the non-Igbo military officers such that he was buried by Gowon and the Nigerian government with full military honours despite fighting for Biafra in the civil war.

Feel free to argue with Nzeogwu and Gowon.

Nzeogwu was no f*cking tribalist.

OkCornel:
Read up on Nzeogwu. Ironsi, Azikiwe, Okpara and Nwafor Orizu were marked for elimination.

Nzeogwu held up his part of the bargain up North, while the bumbling fools down south bungled the coup plan.

Of course, they were BUT somehow they all escaped the coupists bullets. You can tell that tales to the marines.

we don't have holes on the bridge of our nostrils

OkCornel:
This looks like Wikipedia?

https://web.archive.org/web/20141011085125/http://newtelegraphonline.com/ifeajuna-jumpers-january-jeremiad/

No, it looks like the usual sorry tale from a biafran wanna-be propagandist, named Emeka

OkCornel:
The Northerners had more numbers than Easterners and Westerners combined in government. Particularly the legislature.

OkCornel:
Lmao, the funniest thing I’ve read today was that Ifeajuna drove eastwards from Yaba to Lagos for 10 hours to meet with the Eastern Premier - Michael Okpara who was under house arrest by Lieutenant Oguchi.

The same Ifeajuna later fled westwards from Enugu to Dahomey (present day Benin republic) by road and later on to Ghana.

How senseless

OkCornel:
And you’re talking as though Wikipedia articles do not have references included? 🤷

OkCornel:
Ok… and Igbos made up 70% of the politicians in government abi?

OkCornel:
🥱

Three days after Aguiyi-Ironsi came to power, Banjo was summoned to the office of the Supreme Military Commander and was arrested while he was still waiting to see the head of state. Banjo, a Yoruba,[7] attempted to defend a Yoruba officer,[who?] but was arrested by Lieutenant Colonel G. T. Kurubo and Major P. A. Anwuna and imprisoned by General Aguiyi-Ironsi. He was accused of planning to kill the head of state. Banjo proclaimed his innocence, but was denied a trial. It is suspected[by whom?] that Banjo was detained because it was thought that he had a hand in the 1966 coup.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Banjo

OkCornel:
So Igbo politicians made up 70% of top politicians in Nigeria that ran a regional system of government?

Bravo! Excellent logic

OkCornel:
I don’t know where you got your version of this history from.

Ifeajuna fled to Ghana after the failure of the coup.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Ifeajuna

OkCornel:
Why was Banjo arrested?🤷
Whose side was he on during the civil war? 🤷

Perhaps he was wrongly imprisoned by his fellow officers?

OkCornel:
How is it an “Igbo” coup if the Igbos were almost 66% of the middle ranked officers in the army prior to the 1966 coup?

By default, most of the coup plotters would be of Igbo origin 🤷

Also, there were a lot of Northern officers who willingly followed Kaduna Nzeogwu’s lead in the Northern coup.

The “Igbo” coup myth can only be dispelled by the naked truth.

If the igbos, as you clearly opined above, constituted about 66% of the middle ranking officers in the army prior to the coup THEN, most of the coup plotters would be of igbo origins and so too would be the victims unless of course, the igbo coup plotters chose to protect their brethrens.

Also, the goverment that the coupists claimed was corrupt and undemocratic had igbo politicians making up about 70% of the number YET not a single one of them was deemed worthy of the coupist's bullets- they were placed under house arrest. Omo, una go explain, tire.

OkCornel:
Not my problem Banjo was arrested on suspicion of being a coup plotter.

Remind me whose side he fought on during the civil war.