Inset:The Burial of Late Colonel Francis Fajuyi,Military Governor of Western Nigeria.
Lt William Walbe and Major Danjuma were moles for the July
28 1966 Counter Coup/Mutiny (led by Lt Colonel Murtala
Muhammed) inside the Supreme Commander's (General
Ironsi) security detail.
Instead of securing their principal, they compromised him and
Col Fajuyi in Ibadan essentially delivering both of them to
angry NCOs who murdered them.
July 28 1966 was a continuation of the lawlessness of Jan 15
1966 were many NCOs and officers committed murders that
went unpunished. I believe the impunity of those 2 ghastly
days cemented lawlessness in the nation's psyche. Many
people know who committed the acts of murders yet actors
were never brought to justice.
A young Lt Buka Suka Dimka was one of the key actors of the
mutiny. He tried to murder his commanding Major (Samuel
Ogbemudia). Ogbemudia was tipped off about Dimka's intent
by Col Hassan Katsina and Abba Kyari (see how complicated
things were?) and Ogbemudia fled in a vehicle provided by
Katsina and Kyari. Dimka pursued Ogbemudia from Kaduna to
Ondo. Ogbemudia slipped away into the bush from his
assassins yet Dimka was never punished by the army (to my
knowledge).
Same Dimka would go on to murder Murtala Muhammed (the
July coup leader) about 10 years later on February 13 1976.
Lesson: life is sacrosanct and murderers must be brought to
justice. When murders and crimes go unpunished society will
suffer for it.
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