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Mon Mar 08 2021
The President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government has been urged to grant state pardon to the late General Mamman Jiya Vatsa who was executed for coup plotting in 1986.
Gen Vatsa who served as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and member of the Supreme Military Council was also an accomplished poet.
He was executed by the military regime of Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida on March 5, 1986, following a military tribunal conviction for treason.
The family made the appeal at the weekend in Minna, Niger State, home state of both Gen Vatsa and Gen Babangida, as they marked the 35th anniversary of his death.