He declared unequivocally that the 1966 coup was purely a military action and that the Igbo people were not its masters. No Igbo person was intended to gain any advantages or be elevated to a position of leadership as a result of the coup. The Igbo people suffered the most from the coup’s eventual failure, as they were subjected to horrific killings and the loss of their enterprises. It is impossible to forget this traumatic past.
According to what Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu said in the report by Vanguard News, “Igbos are not responsible for the coup in 1966; it was entirely a military affair. It was not carried out to make any Igbo man a leader and a beneficiary. You remember that the coup failed, and if there is any tribe that suffered from that coup, it was the Igbos, because the Igbos were massacred. We lost our businesses.” CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
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