Look at how well spoken army officers were back in the day. Not these aboki charlatans we have today in khaki uniforms . Infact, our past heroes should be resurrected to take over what rightfully belongs to them. Enough said :-)
To hell with this insubordinate bas@rd and his ilk. To those labelling him a hero; I'm pretty certain a number of you live in the west (US, UK mainly)- I wonder what those countries would look like if their soldiers kept leaving the barracks to overthrow democratic governments (treason btw). You think they'd be as stable and prosperous? This dunce was employed to serve his country in the army, not to abuse the opportunity by using weapons given to him in that role to usurp authority.
@tlig Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello, insighters of Genrocide against the Igbo which first occured in Jos (1945) and Kano (1953), rigged elections and saw to the falsification of census figures thereby subverting the democratic rights of the people, ordered mass-murder of 3,000 Tivs and caused violence in the West while with nepotism violating military recruitment and promotion order. Judge the real causes of the coup and pocket your tribal tantrums. What were the causes and motives of the coup?
the only reason Chukwu is a bad man is cos his plans failed. J.rawlings revolution swept away Nkrumah even though he was a visionary. Today ghana is heads and shoulders above ur nigeria. good soldiers make sacrifices, u never knew if wanted to hand over to a northerner or westerner. ironsi as president was never part of the plan. in fact it was a fatal blow to d wind of revoution. if u want get into nzeogwu head, read obj's book "nzeogwu". nigerians don't read they listen to lores and legends
General Kotoka overthrown Nkrumah. J. Rawlings' revolution did not sweep Nkrumah away. It swept Afrifa, Acheampong and Akufo.
On the coup itself, I believed Nzeogwu meant well. But he was disappointed and used by selfish officers from his tribe. Bello got killed in Kaduna, Akintola got killed in Ibadan but they left Osadebey in Benin and Okpara in Enugu untouched. Damn!
He spoke fluent Hausa because he was born and raised in the North like Azikiwe, Akintola and Ojukwu.
Obj was his best friend, they shared the same room, he called him "Ezigbo Oba" . obj called him "Chukwu". In Wale Ademoyega book "why we struck", he recalled Nzeogwu as one of the most disciplined officers in the Nigerian army who commanded the Military College. Young soldiers regardless of tribe endeared themselves to him. He didn't care about his own safety. he was too nationalistic and he applied the only method he knew in solving nigeria's problems. read book guys read.
The only crime Nzeogwu committed was his comrades' (Wale, Ifeajuna et al.) failure in lagos. after his success in kaduna he read his speech, and waited eagerly for Wale Ademoyega to make the coup speech from lagos. They failed him..they allowed ironsi (the GOC) to slip thru their fingers in lagos. According to OBJ's book "Nzeogwu" he was a sandhurst-trained fine soldier, and was a devout catholic, he was not violent by nature and understood hausa more than igbo,his native dialect.
Ifeajuna messed up the whole plan. Ifeajuna not Ademoyega led the Lagos operations. Unfortunately, it was the same Ifeajuna who tipped off Azikwe and he ran away before the coup. He also tipped off Ironsi.
Balewa and Azikiwe were the heads of that government, so, if they kill Balewa, they should have killed Azikiwe too.
Nzeogwu was a BRAVE warrior, but he was sold out by his fellow Igbo officers. The Igbo officers sent to Benin and Enugu failed to arrest Osadebey and Okpara.
nzeogwu, in my naivety i blamed you for the biafran war, but after reading obj's (ur bossom friend) book titled "Nzeogwu" and listening to that gworo-eating aboki tribalist called sardauna on you tube, i wished i was opportune to be one of ur lieutenants. You r a true nationalist who at the age of 27 wanted to rid Nigeria off ethnic bigots like Ahmadu bello. ur only crime- ifeajuna failed in lagos while u were successful in the North. I'll name my fist child after you. Rest in the Lord
A great patriotic soldier who was disgusted with the excesses of the civilian politicians and tried to stop them plunging his country to the ruins that they have today.Pity he failed.
The Igbo and all those oppressed in this incorrigible Country must think differently now since this incompatible Lord Lugard's cage has consumed more than 4 million lives in its polity deeply divided along ethnic and religious lines. Nzeogwu's thought may seem okay then, but in hind sight, was in disharmony with many nigerians who want nigeria simply for its resources in the south-east and south-south and not its people.
Nigerians who like to brand Nzeogwu's coup "ethnic" motivated fail to see that Ironsi (Igbo) and Ojukwu (Igbo) ensured the abortion of that coup. Unegbe (Igbo), Udoh (Annang) were casualties. Nzeogwu caught and spared Kassim Ibrahim, Northern Region Governor whom he (Nzeogwu) told to his face: "You are a good man. Its not against people like you that we are staging this coup. Its because of all those corrupt politicians who, for the past five years have been holding this country to ransome..."
Wonderful video. Nzeogwu was a revolutionary that loved nigeria butthe coup he led became distorted by other nigerians as an "Igbo Coup" which was a terrible lie. Nzeogwu could not see that while he and his colleagues were worried about nigeria's progress, nigerians were worried about his being Igbo. He should have killed Zik and Okpara not because they were corrupt (they were n't), to balance the casualties by ethnic origin. What thought! Thats why nigeria can never be one.
@blengike I completely understand your point about the "need" to kill Zik and the Okpara in order to balance the ethnic casualties but these are human beings we are talking about here. This is the issue I have with people like him- they show very little value for human life. The coup could have been executed without any killings and doing so in cold blood (as he did) is sick and unacceptable in my book. Those calling him a hero are naive; his motives may have been noble but his method wasn't.
@tlig So what crimes did Zik and Okpara commit to deserve death? For your informtion rigging elections and manipulating census results while distorting the hierarchy of military command and stiring up jihad are worse than a military coup. Ahmadu Bello, Akintola and cohorts were indeed terribly guilty of these acts. These and more were the reasons these revolutionary officers struck. Nigerians are seriously incompatible and it has costs more than 4 million lives and still counting.
@blengike Hi, I was responding to the point you made when you stated he "should have killed Zik and Okpara .... to balance the casualties by ethnic origin". I DON'T believe anyone should have been killed; there are better- democratic- ways of addressing the issues you rightly accuse Bello et al of being responsible for. Killing, sadly, only ever leads to more killing. It's never the solution and as we have seen military incursions into government have set us back continuously.
@tlig When you talk of killing, you ensure you include those killed by Sardauna and Tafawa Balewa's subversion of democracry in the country. You also include the inciteful statements Balewa made in the northern house in 1947 that is typical of the jihadists which had led to the massacre of Igbo in their midst in 1945 in Jos (Hausa-fulani Jos settlers) and 1953 in Kano. Killing, for your type, seems to be qualified as such when it involves the rich and powerful not the masses as victims.
Defenceless civilians hey?? good to hear that! look today we have people like him around us, Nzeribe and co. Abiola was payed with his own coin. these greed fat people re our problem. yet you call them defenceless civilians. Jerry Rwaling did a good Job in Ghana!!
He is not and was nt a murderer. look he tried to rid Nigeria of fat greedy politicians that crippled and re still crippling our economy till today. If he was there and get Abiola , Nzeribe and the likes, shoot them, will you call him a murderer??? He is a hero. A brave young man. this is how a millitary man should be. dauntless, fearless and intelligent., moreover having the angeda of the dear country in hearth. may you soul rest in peace
This guy was a cold blooded murderer! he was so calm while recounting how the carried out killing of a defenceless civillian! May he rot in hell where he belongs....
it is disturbing that this has incendiary video was released at the height of ethnic-religious tension. This guy cannot be a hero to anyone, especially Igbos. He usurped both civilian and military authority to murder defenseless people. That is both arrogant and cowardly. His group directly catalyzed the death of thousands of people and the bastardization of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
The people who condemn Major Nzeogwu are the same people who consider Jerry Rawlings a hero. If Nzeogwu had succeeded and Nigeria turned around for the better, there would have been a statue of him in Abuja!
@DrChuckyXL You are wrong; I don't consider Jerry Rawlings a hero. He however is an aberration- and exception to the rule. Why do you take it for granted that Nzeogwu would have turned Nigeria around; what makes you think his intentions were anything but self-centred? Because he said so? And as far as monuments for murderers go (in Nigeria anyway), our number one international airport is named after a war criminal. It's no big deal him getting a statue, it wouldn't change the fact he's a killer.
No he is not! you have no idea how things would had been otherwise, no one does, all we know is that at that time Nigeria was hotbed of corruption and unrest. What i am sure of is that he went in to this with the right intentions, did they carry it out in the bast manner? No but they did what they thought was right and for that I applaud them. It is what happened after that that is to blame, Ironsi should never have set up a military government. It went downhill from there.
HOW MANY OF OUR SO CALL LEADERS CAN SPEAK LIKE THIS??WITHOUT NOT LOOKING AT PAPER??THEY WILL STILL LOOK AND STILL BLOW GRAMMAR!!!!!TRUE HERO@WORK....
wapa4u 2 days ago
Look at how well spoken army officers were back in the day. Not these aboki charlatans we have today in khaki uniforms . Infact, our past heroes should be resurrected to take over what rightfully belongs to them. Enough said :-)
mcobinad 4 days ago
To hell with this insubordinate bas@rd and his ilk. To those labelling him a hero; I'm pretty certain a number of you live in the west (US, UK mainly)- I wonder what those countries would look like if their soldiers kept leaving the barracks to overthrow democratic governments (treason btw). You think they'd be as stable and prosperous? This dunce was employed to serve his country in the army, not to abuse the opportunity by using weapons given to him in that role to usurp authority.
tlig 1 week ago in playlist Liked videos
@tlig Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello, insighters of Genrocide against the Igbo which first occured in Jos (1945) and Kano (1953), rigged elections and saw to the falsification of census figures thereby subverting the democratic rights of the people, ordered mass-murder of 3,000 Tivs and caused violence in the West while with nepotism violating military recruitment and promotion order. Judge the real causes of the coup and pocket your tribal tantrums. What were the causes and motives of the coup?
blengike 1 week ago
ok
theigbotruth 2 weeks ago
the only reason Chukwu is a bad man is cos his plans failed. J.rawlings revolution swept away Nkrumah even though he was a visionary. Today ghana is heads and shoulders above ur nigeria. good soldiers make sacrifices, u never knew if wanted to hand over to a northerner or westerner. ironsi as president was never part of the plan. in fact it was a fatal blow to d wind of revoution. if u want get into nzeogwu head, read obj's book "nzeogwu". nigerians don't read they listen to lores and legends
theigbotruth 2 weeks ago
@theigbotruth:
General Kotoka overthrown Nkrumah. J. Rawlings' revolution did not sweep Nkrumah away. It swept Afrifa, Acheampong and Akufo.
On the coup itself, I believed Nzeogwu meant well. But he was disappointed and used by selfish officers from his tribe. Bello got killed in Kaduna, Akintola got killed in Ibadan but they left Osadebey in Benin and Okpara in Enugu untouched. Damn!
He spoke fluent Hausa because he was born and raised in the North like Azikiwe, Akintola and Ojukwu.
Fontabele 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
Obj was his best friend, they shared the same room, he called him "Ezigbo Oba" . obj called him "Chukwu". In Wale Ademoyega book "why we struck", he recalled Nzeogwu as one of the most disciplined officers in the Nigerian army who commanded the Military College. Young soldiers regardless of tribe endeared themselves to him. He didn't care about his own safety. he was too nationalistic and he applied the only method he knew in solving nigeria's problems. read book guys read.
theigbotruth 2 weeks ago
The only crime Nzeogwu committed was his comrades' (Wale, Ifeajuna et al.) failure in lagos. after his success in kaduna he read his speech, and waited eagerly for Wale Ademoyega to make the coup speech from lagos. They failed him..they allowed ironsi (the GOC) to slip thru their fingers in lagos. According to OBJ's book "Nzeogwu" he was a sandhurst-trained fine soldier, and was a devout catholic, he was not violent by nature and understood hausa more than igbo,his native dialect.
theigbotruth 2 weeks ago
@theigbotruth So coup plotting and murder, regardless of victim, are no crimes abi?
tlig 2 weeks ago in playlist Liked videos
@theigbotruth:
Ifeajuna messed up the whole plan. Ifeajuna not Ademoyega led the Lagos operations. Unfortunately, it was the same Ifeajuna who tipped off Azikwe and he ran away before the coup. He also tipped off Ironsi.
Balewa and Azikiwe were the heads of that government, so, if they kill Balewa, they should have killed Azikiwe too.
Nzeogwu was a BRAVE warrior, but he was sold out by his fellow Igbo officers. The Igbo officers sent to Benin and Enugu failed to arrest Osadebey and Okpara.
Fontabele 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
nzeogwu, in my naivety i blamed you for the biafran war, but after reading obj's (ur bossom friend) book titled "Nzeogwu" and listening to that gworo-eating aboki tribalist called sardauna on you tube, i wished i was opportune to be one of ur lieutenants. You r a true nationalist who at the age of 27 wanted to rid Nigeria off ethnic bigots like Ahmadu bello. ur only crime- ifeajuna failed in lagos while u were successful in the North. I'll name my fist child after you. Rest in the Lord
theigbotruth 3 weeks ago
Wow!!! Major Kaduna Nzeogwu destroyed the first Republic and changed history. He will not be forgiven.
Umuahian 3 weeks ago
This is real soldier perfect military man, he is real revolutionary man this is the type of man nigerians need now.
jolami202 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
A great patriotic soldier who was disgusted with the excesses of the civilian politicians and tried to stop them plunging his country to the ruins that they have today.Pity he failed.
cpwallz 3 weeks ago
The Igbo and all those oppressed in this incorrigible Country must think differently now since this incompatible Lord Lugard's cage has consumed more than 4 million lives in its polity deeply divided along ethnic and religious lines. Nzeogwu's thought may seem okay then, but in hind sight, was in disharmony with many nigerians who want nigeria simply for its resources in the south-east and south-south and not its people.
blengike 3 weeks ago
Nigerians who like to brand Nzeogwu's coup "ethnic" motivated fail to see that Ironsi (Igbo) and Ojukwu (Igbo) ensured the abortion of that coup. Unegbe (Igbo), Udoh (Annang) were casualties. Nzeogwu caught and spared Kassim Ibrahim, Northern Region Governor whom he (Nzeogwu) told to his face: "You are a good man. Its not against people like you that we are staging this coup. Its because of all those corrupt politicians who, for the past five years have been holding this country to ransome..."
blengike 3 weeks ago
Wonderful video. Nzeogwu was a revolutionary that loved nigeria butthe coup he led became distorted by other nigerians as an "Igbo Coup" which was a terrible lie. Nzeogwu could not see that while he and his colleagues were worried about nigeria's progress, nigerians were worried about his being Igbo. He should have killed Zik and Okpara not because they were corrupt (they were n't), to balance the casualties by ethnic origin. What thought! Thats why nigeria can never be one.
blengike 3 weeks ago
@blengike I completely understand your point about the "need" to kill Zik and the Okpara in order to balance the ethnic casualties but these are human beings we are talking about here. This is the issue I have with people like him- they show very little value for human life. The coup could have been executed without any killings and doing so in cold blood (as he did) is sick and unacceptable in my book. Those calling him a hero are naive; his motives may have been noble but his method wasn't.
tlig 3 weeks ago
@tlig So what crimes did Zik and Okpara commit to deserve death? For your informtion rigging elections and manipulating census results while distorting the hierarchy of military command and stiring up jihad are worse than a military coup. Ahmadu Bello, Akintola and cohorts were indeed terribly guilty of these acts. These and more were the reasons these revolutionary officers struck. Nigerians are seriously incompatible and it has costs more than 4 million lives and still counting.
blengike 3 weeks ago
@blengike Hi, I was responding to the point you made when you stated he "should have killed Zik and Okpara .... to balance the casualties by ethnic origin". I DON'T believe anyone should have been killed; there are better- democratic- ways of addressing the issues you rightly accuse Bello et al of being responsible for. Killing, sadly, only ever leads to more killing. It's never the solution and as we have seen military incursions into government have set us back continuously.
tlig 3 weeks ago
@tlig When you talk of killing, you ensure you include those killed by Sardauna and Tafawa Balewa's subversion of democracry in the country. You also include the inciteful statements Balewa made in the northern house in 1947 that is typical of the jihadists which had led to the massacre of Igbo in their midst in 1945 in Jos (Hausa-fulani Jos settlers) and 1953 in Kano. Killing, for your type, seems to be qualified as such when it involves the rich and powerful not the masses as victims.
blengike 2 weeks ago
@blengike You are talking rubbish. I wouldn't be discussing this further with you.
tlig 2 weeks ago
@tlig Your reaction is no surprise.
blengike 2 weeks ago
How in the world did you get this video? Amazing! Were you part of the coup?
phbamaiyi 4 weeks ago
Major Nzeogwu was a HERO ..!! Intelligent and Fearless man. The kind of military man Nigeria is desperatley in need of today. RIP.
jbernec 1 month ago
This video is amazing. How did anyone find this video. WOW..!!!
jbernec 1 month ago
Hero..!!
jbernec 1 month ago
Defenceless civilians hey?? good to hear that! look today we have people like him around us, Nzeribe and co. Abiola was payed with his own coin. these greed fat people re our problem. yet you call them defenceless civilians. Jerry Rwaling did a good Job in Ghana!!
megwassugo 1 month ago
He is not and was nt a murderer. look he tried to rid Nigeria of fat greedy politicians that crippled and re still crippling our economy till today. If he was there and get Abiola , Nzeribe and the likes, shoot them, will you call him a murderer??? He is a hero. A brave young man. this is how a millitary man should be. dauntless, fearless and intelligent., moreover having the angeda of the dear country in hearth. may you soul rest in peace
megwassugo 1 month ago
stupid may ur soul rest in hell forever.
manusy1 1 month ago
This guy was a cold blooded murderer! he was so calm while recounting how the carried out killing of a defenceless civillian! May he rot in hell where he belongs....
neyeeisaiah 1 month ago
it is disturbing that this has incendiary video was released at the height of ethnic-religious tension. This guy cannot be a hero to anyone, especially Igbos. He usurped both civilian and military authority to murder defenseless people. That is both arrogant and cowardly. His group directly catalyzed the death of thousands of people and the bastardization of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
mecuroy 1 month ago
@mecuroy Major Nzeogwu was a hero and will always be one!
chieduagain 1 month ago
hero
sseesseesseekkoo 1 month ago 10
@sseesseesseekkoo What hero after destroying his life and 2 million others?
halloqwertyui 2 weeks ago
a hero and a man of honour unlike the gutless cowards and sellouts that remain in power today.
may his soul rest in peace.
phoenixchi28 1 month ago
The people who condemn Major Nzeogwu are the same people who consider Jerry Rawlings a hero. If Nzeogwu had succeeded and Nigeria turned around for the better, there would have been a statue of him in Abuja!
DrChuckyXL 1 month ago
@DrChuckyXL You are wrong; I don't consider Jerry Rawlings a hero. He however is an aberration- and exception to the rule. Why do you take it for granted that Nzeogwu would have turned Nigeria around; what makes you think his intentions were anything but self-centred? Because he said so? And as far as monuments for murderers go (in Nigeria anyway), our number one international airport is named after a war criminal. It's no big deal him getting a statue, it wouldn't change the fact he's a killer.
tlig 1 month ago in playlist Liked videos
@tlig ....Oh really? You consider Rawlings 'an aberration and exception to the rule'. Wonderful!
DrChuckyXL 1 month ago
@DrChuckyXL What exactly is your point?
tlig 1 month ago
he was a revolutionary period northern soldiers supported him until news came from the east that the revolutionaries had a change of heart...
ogedola 1 month ago
Murderer, funnily enough some ignorant people hold this dunce up as some kind of hero.
tlig 1 month ago
a murderer
femiog 1 month ago 8
No he is not! you have no idea how things would had been otherwise, no one does, all we know is that at that time Nigeria was hotbed of corruption and unrest. What i am sure of is that he went in to this with the right intentions, did they carry it out in the bast manner? No but they did what they thought was right and for that I applaud them. It is what happened after that that is to blame, Ironsi should never have set up a military government. It went downhill from there.
ugobi 2 months ago
Ironsi messed up big time, he should have had this guy imprisoned for life. This guy is responsible for the mess we find ourselves in today.
dapodokumentary 2 months ago