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Some southern military officers led by Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Adewale Ademoyega, Christian Anuforo, Donatus Okafor, Humphrey Chukwuka and Timothy Onwuatuegwu, who were dissatisfied with the alleged northern domination and discrimination in the military and public service, the economic woes, social injustice and corruption in the country, orchestrated the January 1966 coup.

In his memoir, ‘Why We Struck’, Ademoyega, one of the plotters, explained that “Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places, that seek bribes and demand 10%; those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as ministers or VIPs.”

“Once they were so uplifted by the society, they became solely and wholly motivated to use every opportunity to lift their immediate family out of the level of the masses into the privi