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Because Their Is No Such Thing As Wholesale Villainy,We Shall Also Be Shedding Light On The Forces For Good During The 1966 Northern Pogroms
Well, let's get on with this one in tandem
During the July 1966 counter-coup and the pogroms which followed,wherever possible,officers,soldiers & even civilians did facilitate each>
other's escape from the jaws of certain death. The Head of State, Gen Ironsi had an army ADC, Lt Sani Bello and an airforce ADC,Lt Nwankwo
Sani Bello not only aided Nwankwo's scape from the scene of Ironsi's assassination at Ibadan,on arrival in Lagos Nwankwo again went to meet>
<Sani Bello, who smuggled him out to the outskirts of Lagos and thus to safety in the trunk of a car
Grp Capt Usman Jibrin(rtd),late elder brother to Senator Wlid Jibrin, used his Dornier utility plane to fly ethnic Igbo officers, who were>
<well-represented in Kaduna on account of their dominance of the teeth arms of the NA as of 1966, to Lokoja and thus,onwards to safety
On the night of the 28 July 1966 mutiny at Abeokuta Garrison, Lt Peter Okoli was one of the few Igbo officers who succesfully bolted from >
<from the killing fields. Having spent the night on the banks of the Ogun River, he was graciously provided with life-saving tips by a >
<certain colleague in the Corps of Artillery namely, Lt (later Maj Gen) Abdullahi Bagudu Mamman, a Sandhurst-trained officer of sound mind
In Sokoto, Sultan Abubakar Siddique III proved his nationalistic credentials by ensuring that the pogroms did not extend to Sokoto.
The late Sultan, in whom the Light of God abided, went so far as to hire lorries to ferry Easterners to Jebba frm Sokoto and thus, to safety
In Kano, Lt Colonel Mohammed Shuwa, CO of the 5th Battalion not only threw a protective cordon around Ibos in defiance of the orders of the>
<Military Governor of Northern Nigeria and to the utmost consternation of the vengeance-seeking northern masses pouring out from inside the>
<walled city of Kano but also deployed troops to Katsina to go and protect non-Northerners there.
May God grant him eternity. Those were the true Nigerians who lit torches for national unity. Enjoy your day..
