VIDEO: Background and politics of the first Nigerian coup
On January 15, 1966, Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu led the first ever-military coup in Nigeria, and it's exactly 50 years today since the military system of government was first introduced into Nigeria.
Watch a rare video interview by Kaduna Nzeogwu below..
We remember the epic event in Nigeria's history with Major Kaduna Nzeogwu's coup speech
Excerpts of Major Nzeogwu’s coup speech below...
My dear countrymen, no citizen should have anything to fear, so long as that citizen is law abiding and if that citizen has religiously obeyed the native laws of the country and those set down in every heart and conscience since 1st October, 1960.
Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10 per cent; those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as ministers or VIPs at least, the tribalists, the nepotists, those that make the country look big for nothing before international circles, those that have corrupted our society and put the Nigerian political calendar back by their words and deeds.
Like good soldiers we are not promising anything miraculous or spectacular. But what we do promise every law abiding citizen is freedom from fear and all forms of oppression, freedom from general inefficiency and freedom to live and strive in every field of human endeavour, both nationally and internationally. We promise that you will know more be ashamed to say that you are a Nigerian.
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