A troubled federation and its endless internal strife, by Mohammed Kashim

Date: 18-06-2016 9:09 am (7 years ago) | Author: Olabola Tobi
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Writing this piece, one cannot but remember Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, the 29 year-old, who championed the nation's first military coup d'tat in 1966, along with his colleagues, Majors in the Nigerian Army: Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Timothy Onwuatuegwu, Chris Anuforo, Don Okafor, Adewale Ademoyega and Humphrey Chukwuka.

Why? According to an account recorded by Ademoyega in his book: "Why we struck," a 194-paged 1981 narrative (I read it in 1988 or so), the young men were embittered by corruption and anarchy resulting from the mismanagement of the nation's commonwealth by a few.

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