Nothing I have written seeks to justify the January coup. I wish it never took place. I wish the hotheaded young ‘revolutionaries’ had reflected on their line of action or consulted saner heads. The deaths of our leaders that day need not have happened. I wish the British did not bequeath a skewered Nigeria to us upon independence, and the ineptitude of our politicians only worsened things.
Military experts have since floored the argument because his position did not make him a custodian of the armoury. Interestingly, extracts of the Police Special Branch report on the investigation of the coup excluded Unegbe’s name from the casualty list. As for Igbo politicians the fact that President Azikiwe was outside Nigeria when the coup occurred is suspicious. Major Ifeajuna is from Onitsha, Azikiwe’s hometown.
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