NIGERIA MEMORIAL part 8*
NIGERIA MEMORIAL......... ==== THE PAUSE so far so good: The coup succeeded in Kaduna, the northern region capital, but failed in Lagos, the federal capital, and in Ibadan, the western regional capital, and barely took place in Benin the mid-western capital, and Enugu the eastern capital. The majority of those murdered were northerners, accompanied by some westerners and a few Midwesterner. Some BOOKS, TEACHINGS AND ARTICLES, will tell you that No easterner lost his or her life, during the failed coup, but that's not entirely true. Quartermaster-General of the Nigerian Army at Army Headquarters in Lagos, Lt-Col Arthur Unegbe, was Shot and killed by the mutineers who were of the same ethnic origin as he. so arguably, that dismisses the case of a total igbo coup! in totality, the coup failed! but that was not the end of it. what followed next is what some scholars will describe as a game of ethnic complicity and that singular mistake plunged Nigeria fully into a