Just look at the list.
1. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
2. Sir Ahmadu Bello
3. Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola
4. Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh
5. Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun
6. Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari
7. Colonel Ralph Shodeinde
8..Colonel Kur Mohammed
9. Lt. Colonel Abogo Largema
10. Lt. Colonel James Pam
11. Lt. Colonel Arthur Unegbe
12. Ahmed Ben Musa
13. Mrs..Hafsatu Bello, Ahmadu Bello's wife.
14. Mrs Latifat Ademulegun, Brig. Ademulegun's wife.
Zarumi Sardauna
15. Mallam Ahmed Pategi, Ahmadu Bello's driver.
16. Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke
17. PC Yohana Garkawa
18. Lance-corporal Musa Nimzo
19. PC Akpan Anduka
20. PC Hagai Lai
21. Mr. Philip Lewande.
Those men and probably some others were murdered in cold blood right in their houses in a well-coordinared action of mutinous soldiers in the course of a single night.
May their souls continue to rest
Just ONE night, as they slept peacefully in their houses, some in bed with their wives and children.
The Moslems amongst them were in the month of Ramadan but the idiots couldnt be bothered.
And ALL the killings, EVERY ONE of them were executed by soldiers who were ALL IBO officers of the Nigerian Army.
And the excuse was that they were about to fight TRIBALISM AND CORRUPTION.
Imagine.
You were going to fight TRIBALISM then you selected NON-IBOS, the very cream of the Political and Military Leadership of their Ethnic groups for brutal assassination by ALL-IBO OFFCIERS while sparing your own people who were the chief tribalists.
You were going to fight CORRUPTION then you picked on a man like Tafawa Balewa who lived a very modest life, living on the brinks of poverty whereas you passed in front of the houses of Ozumba Mbadiwe, Nwafor Orizu etc, men who were notoriously corrupt, and you didn't branch to visit them.
You thought some of your superior Military Offciers were aiding the Politicians in corruption then you picked on a man like Gen. Ademulegun and Gen Maimalari, career Offciers minding their businesses but conveniently forgot that your GOC, HEAD OF ARMY, Gen. Aguiyi-Ironsi was the closest to the politicians and he hobnobbed with them.
And after the whole thing you installed Aguiyi-Ironsi as Head of State while the murderers were conveniently placed under protective custody and receiving their salaries and allowances.
And Aguiyi-Ironsi appointed an Five-man council of Advisers who were ALL IBOS.
And the same Aguiyi-Ironsi dissolved the regions, suspended regional constitution and put in place the iniquitous Decree 34 to harmonize the whole country and bring it under the control of Ibos.
And you just relaxed, so naive and expected no repercussions.
It is the kind of thinking that you still have till today, pouring your population into the lands of other people and scheming to displace them and overtake their social,political and economic lives from within.
And you don't expect the people to react.
When they react you call them tribalists.
When they stop you from dominating them on their ancestral lands you cry marginalisation.
When they point out these things to you you call them bigots.
Everybody is wrong except you.
The Ghanaians are wrong for repelling your plans to float a Kingdom under their noses. The South-African Zulus were wrong when they revolted against you for destroying the lives of their youths with drugs and prostitution. You expected the Kenyans, Benenise, Liberians, Zimbabweans and everybody else to look on as you ravage their society.
You want the Yoruba people to stay quiet as you silently alter our DEMOGRAPHICS and BLOODLINES through migration of your unruly population and marriage with your women. You want us to look away as you alter our social order and systemically run our people into poverty..../
@dawisu Good observation, the stakeholders of the region should act urgently to resolve the ongoing misunderstanding between the chairman and MD, to achieve the commission objectives.