The Mamman Vatsa Conspiracy Trial of 1985/1986 | How Babangida killed His Best Friend |
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- General Babangida justified the execution of General Vatsa and others in 1986 in an interview with THIS DAY Newspapers shortly after he turned 60, saying that after Vatsa's coup was foiled, he realised his childhood friend and classmate planned the coup in line with a deep-seated personal rivalry dating back to their days as young officers.
Babangida claimed that he and Vatsa had been tremendous competitors unintentionally; that as a young officer, everything he did, Vatsa did as well, and whatever Vatsa attained, he pursued as well. Lieutenant-General Theophilus Y. Danjuma, Babangida claimed, pointed this out to him in their military records.
Ibrahim Babangida gave this rationalisation to justify why he could not pardon Vatsa. He said when he first heard his childhood friend was planning a coup, he decided to do nothing but monitor him. Babangida then instructed that Vatsa be arrested and detained so as not to allow him to impede the investigation.
However, the Minna-born retired general said while he was watching the video of Vatsa’s execution, he turned his eyes away when he saw him remove his watch and asked a soldier to give it to his wife. The former Head of State further said he couldn't continue watching.
According to Babangida, he couldn't retire or imprison Vatsa because he believed the army officer could still have planned a coup either in retirement or in prison. Adding that Mamman Vatsa was very stubborn. #HistoryVille
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
05:40 Background
09:54 Coup Rumours
13:30 Why were Vatsa and the others executed?
15:13 Babangida’s Reason for Executing Vatsa
16:55 The Long-Term Effects of the Vatsa Conspiracy Trials
20:45 Next Video (Why the April 22, 1990, Gideon Orkar Coup Failed)
The beauty of history and documentaries can never be over emphasized.
Just yesterday, I was watching an old clip of Gen. Oladipo Diya's appearance on Oputa Panel, and it got me thinking about Vatsa's case.
I literally was going to suggest under your last upload about IBB/Buhari that you should do one on Vatsa. Thank you soo much for this. 💪🏾
😊😊 You're welcome.
Yet, Nigeria will turn a blind eye and call him Elder statesman. The execution of Mamman like his June 12 annulment are among the infamous actions Babaginda took that either established or exacerbated the misfortunes of Nigeria
I unapologetically believe IBB is the architect of all the misfortune that’s befallen us in this country.
Very true
Thanks for this documentary. I appreciate all our past Military Administrator's, heroes and heroines who served our nation. May the souls of those we lost in active service rest in peace. I implore Nigerians to deplore ways of resolving its issues without a coup. Special recognition to Baba Awolowo, Bubu and IBB mentioned here.
I wonder how Mamma Vatsa's wife would have felt, when his wrist watch was given to her? She automatically became a time keeper. I pray that those tears that flowed from her eye's, will be turned to laughter and joy for her and her family. Rest in peace Mamman Vatsa.
“Turned to laughter and joy for her?” In this life or the next? Sadly, it’s much too late for her in this life.
She never got the wrist watch and her life never changed for the better,theirs was a tragic travesty of justice
Amen I'm praying so may his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.
Thank you for this piece. I have been waiting impatiently for this narrative on the so called Vatsa coup. All respect to you.
You're welcome.
Vatsa last words to the tribunal after being sentenced to death rang a bell"I remain my witness before your trial,my testimony before your judgement,I leave you all with smiles and I dare say that by the time you are done with me,my children will be so scared that they will never come near the system because a lean liberty is better than a fat slavery"vatsa and those fine officers were executed unjustly because till date the evidences and charges against those men were circumstacial and malicious because there was no coup attempt but just a case of expressing grievances, the blood of those officers will ever haunt Babangida to his grave
I love you work. I appreciate if you can do the 1995 phantom coup
Best chanel❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much
You're most welcome
👌👌👌👍👍👍thanks
The TRUTH is Babangida secretly envied him for whatever Babangida can achieve in due time he could, however it's the payment for coup, no one paid Buhari and Babangida back they were only praised for treason
A sickening and shameful episode. Babangida merely wanted to kill those he didn’t like or trust. There is no way these innocent officers planned a coup. It’s one thing to execute a coup and fail, but this so-called coup didn’t even get to the execution stage, yet they were murdered by their colleagues. This was just a mop-up operation by Babangida and his acolytes to eliminate their rivals whom they were jealous of.
How old are u
You have said it all,late major Daniel Bamidele's son is still asking for his father's grave,martin Luther's daughter is yet to come to terms with what befell her dad,only God knows the trauma that the families of those officers passed through and are still passing through because they were killed for nothing
There has been scanty videos about maman Vatsa. I've been searching videos to know the truth about the coup and if vatsa is culpable. I appreciate your time to explain this. Kudos. Looking foward to next video.
Thank you.
Wow interesting
Great job …Please can you do a comprehensive documentary on the counter coup in July 1966 and the Nigeria civil war
With time.
That would really be nice. I was actually going to ask why you haven't done one on the latter.
@@HistoryVille ok thank you
You probably mean Gen. A Ironsi taking over power from the coup plotters 😃😃😃 He died with that secret, any true and good Gen. would have executed all the coup plotters. He did not and still left some of them in the army. So it wasn’t a counter coup.
@@kmoses2814 it was a counter coup more a revenge irrespective of Ironsi’s actions . They the plotters even called it July rematch .
Thank you for this! Can i help you voice some of your documentaries?
Send a link to any documentary you have voiced.
5:54 You mistaken August 1995 instead 1985....👌
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This a matter of conspiracy to commit coup, it is not up to an attempted coup, meaning there must be evidence of an agreement between the alleged plotters to commit treason / coup. At most , in the best legal jurisprudence any offence of conspiracy is extremely difficult to proof beyond all reasonable doubt. Going by the lack of evidence tendered by IBB government apart from personal issues, such as Vasta rivalry to IBB, one can conclusively argue that there are no compelling evidence to show that Vasta committed the offences as alleged.
This matter should be revisited and reviewed by the government of Nigeria, those found culpable of this miscarriage of justice must face the law for the offences that they committed in retrospect. There are no timeline restrictions for the offence of murder, IBB should be arrested, investigated along with his enablers who executed the Vasta alleged coup plotters without any evidence apart from Vasta copping IBB as rival. What an unintelligent society where people can be executed with no evidence. This culture of impunity is prevalent in the north and now part of the lager Nigerian culture.
And he was his best man during his wedding
You are correct
Perfectly said
@@everlyneojuro5459 I shaded tears when I heard their lives history.
Vasta should never have been executed. There was soo much foul play in that coup allegations.
Their was no coup because no gun was raise or bullet fired.. They officers were murdered period.
This is a very professional job.,
Thankk you.
You guys are doing quite a good job bringing to the fore and to the world Nigerias paramount histories that have long been sidelined by our educational and social systems, however, interjecting unrelated visuals to the documentaries subject matter somewhat reduces the educational seriousness and focus the vibrance behind your intent projects. Just something to consider. There are quite a lot of relative clips a condensed research can provide you from the internet and some Nigerian broadcasting libraries. Good job all the same. I really appreciate the hard work you all put into the work.
Nigeria has shearing so much blood, and continues to shearing blood, like the blood they are sharing in boronu there ris god ooo
What happen to the Facebook page of this channel?
Too much war on the comment option
Babagida had no business executing Mamman Vasta for coup plotting when he himself is guilty of same. If I had had mighty strong position in Nigeria affairs, I wouldn’t hesitate to drag him and the other wizard Buhari out and have them hang for coup plotting and overthrow of government, because this their acts, especially that of Babagida is the genesis of Nigeria failure and poverty.
Interesting that you mentioned that then Col. Mamman Vatsa was the first to distance himself and his troops from the Dimka coup. Danjuma actually sent Babangida, an armoured officer to dislodge Dimka and other conspirators from the radio station from where they were making their coup broadcast. When IBB got there a funny thing happened as he actually went in there to have a conversation with Dimka without being shot himself. IBB then called Danjuma to report that he was having a conversation with Dinka. An infuriated Danjuma ordered him out of the station. It was only then that another aromured officer in the person of Major Chris Ugokwe opened up and finally sent Dinka packing. This paved the way for Obasanjo who went into hiding in Surulere to come out and become HOS. Could it be that IBB was not happen that Vatsa was the first to repudiate the Dimka coup? IBB knew something about that coup.
He didn’t know anything about that coup, Dinka asked him if he wanted to be involved. There is something called last minute involvement in coup. However if he agreed to be involve the balance of power would have changed there and then.
@@kmoses2814 I am not exactly sure what you are prattle about here. The point is that IBB actually walked into the radio station, sat down and had a conversation with Dimka. He then walked out of there unscathed. Now that is something to really ponder. He was actually ORDERED to destroy the building.
@@ekusondebango3568 he is still alive, go and ask him.
@@kmoses2814 TVC recently asked him but got no direct answer except that he said Dimka was his friend. He also won't tell us why he annulled an election in 1993 thereby setting in motion all the agitations for secession in the country today.
@@ekusondebango3568 : IBB when to get troops from Abeokuta which was the biggest Amy barrack nearest to the capital Lagos. My agreement is this: with the troops in his disposition, if he had refused command from Danguma and take side with Dimka , there would be no other troops powerful enough to fight them. That’s why I said that the balance of power would have changed in favour of Dimka.
Where Gen Maman Vatsa was today, Abacha,Domkat Bali, Joshua Dogonyaro and other powerful militaries officers who shorten his life were there today. I believes that in this world, there’s no body is powerful than death. I also strongly believes that the death will not forgive any body that killed the innocent people regardless of who you are. Also MKO ABIOLA spirit will judge everyone of them too. It is just a matter of time
While I applaud your sentiment, the dead remain dead, and the dead don't judge the living.
Babangida is alive
MKO was also complicit in many coups!
@@okeyumeano4464 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿
Exactly, Babangida will soon join him
Gen Babangida didn't have any intention to killed Mamman vasta bcos they brothers and friends. It was Domkat Bali that insisted that mamman vasta should be killed . Bcos of the reason that was a long stories to write up here after the execution of mamman vasta he felt guilty and quickly resigned from the military so that he doesn't face the faith of set up like mamman vasta.
He didn’t resigned because of this thing you just said.
@@yinkaemmanuel8934 I know he resigned bcos Babaginda demoted him by removed him from his post .
This is not true,Bali resigned because he was demoted and he didn't insist that vatsa and co should be killed, Babangida,Halilu Akilu and his clique were those who planned to execute them,in military regimes the head of state's word is law that no one can disobey because disobedience is tantamount to signing your death sentence
Rest On General Mamma Vatsa
How did Moses Effiong play part in the coup?
8:15 Executed on match 1986 not match 1996...
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General Ibrahim Babangida Badamasi Overthrown General Mohammadu Buhari In 1985
Yet He Executed Mamma Vatsa And Gideon Orkar.😪
Military rules have done more damage to this country than good.
Some of the intelligent people killed by this military men would have still been alive till today.
Vatsa was said to be ambitious.. the rivalry between the two is dated back in the days in Minna . Vatsa may not be entirely innocent of the coup. Money exchanged hands.
Do have compelling evidence to back up your assertion?
There you go making statements without having the facts to back up what you are saying, this is the problem with Nigeria today and before.
With what material did u used to back up ur fact. Senior military officers were envious of Vatsa that's all, it's common in military
What is a coup? Did this issue fall under the definition of a coup? What also is the difference between treason and treasonable felony?
ON THE 22 SECOND PART OF THE VIDEO YOPU MENTIONED 1995 INSTEAD OF 1985
They shouldn't have been executed. They should have been either, dismissed or retired from service and placed under house arrest, and their security details withdrawn.
There is no moral justification for the execution of coup plotters especially when the coup is a frame-up, bloodless, unjustified and without substantial evidence.
Military regardless, friendship has no substitute.
These guys have scars on their cheeks, even Abacha's face photos show he has same scars
Tribal marks not scars .. one is Nupe and the other, kanuri.
@@chineduonuoha294 I have also seen Ighala people with the same marks on Vatsa's face.
These guys are like ,they joined the military just to become Presidents, they were basically idle
Vasta was murdered
It will interest you to know that any successful coup in Nigeria were carried out by fulanis, the unsuccessful ones are either middle belt or south
Chidex You lie the first Military coup in Nigeria was led by an Igbo Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, it succeeded because the 1st Republic was overthrown and the Government of Tafawa Belewa ended...even though the coup leaders were not allowed to rule
Chidex, you are also VERY WRONG, the only Fulani who led&did a successful coup is Buhari on December 31,1983...the others are from various tribes in the north and even the south, e.g Murtala Muhammed who led the very bloody so-called Northern Counter-Coup of JULY 1966, in which the first Military Head of State Gen Aguiyi Ironsi was killed. Murtala Muhammed though widely believed to be from Kano State, was actually from Auchi Edo State, his parents merely migrated to Kano....ditto Ibrahim Babangida who is allegedly from around Ogbomosho, Osun State, his parents merely migrated, it is said, to Niger state
Vatsa was from Niger state like ibb
Clown 🤡 In May 1966, General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigeria’s first military head of state, promulgated the infamous Decree No. 34 of 1966, the “unification decree.” The decree effectively did away with the federal system of government practiced by Nigeria since its independence from British colonial rule in 1960. In its place, the general instituted a unitary system of government as a way of discouraging “tribal loyalties and activities which promote tribal consciousness and sectional interests and which must give way to the urgent task of national reconstruction.” The decree suspended aspects of the Nigerian constitution and, with it, the military government arrogated to itself wide discretionary powers. Unknown to the general, the effects of this decree would reverberate well into Nigeria’s sixtieth year as an independent nation.
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*It's a tragedy to the fate of this nation that the Igbo person has been in denial about the problem they created for this country since 1966. Instead, they play the victim. I no longer debate Nigerians on this issue. It has served me no good*