Late Lt. Col. Dimka before he was executed somewhere in Bar Beach Lagos
Dear readers, this coup speech was never broadcasted but reading it will tell you something about the intentions of the guys that planned the coup at that time, I have also noticed that thie below speech by Col. Dimka is one of the shortest and precise coup speeches in our nations history.
Fellow Nigerians,
This is Lt. Col. BS Dimka. I now explain why we the Young Revolutionaries of the Armed Forces have found it necessary to overthrow the six month old government of Murtala. On the 29th July 1975 the Government of General Gowon was overthrown. Some of the reasons given for the change were:
a. Corruption
b. Indecision
c. Arrest and detention without trial
d. Weakness on the part of the Head of State
e. Maladministration in general and a host of other malpractice.
Every honest Nigerian will agree with me that since the change over of government there has not been any physical development in the whole country generally. All we have is arbitrary dismissal of innocent Nigerians who have contributed in no less amount to the building of this great nation. A Professor was arrested, detained, dismissed and later taken to court on an article which every honest Nigerian will agree that all the points contained in that article were 100% truth. The sad point about it all is that those who initiated the retirement or dismissal exercise are the worst offenders. You will be informed about the ill-gotten wealth in my next announcement.
The acting General Manager of the Nigerian Airways was invited to the Dodan Barracks and detained without trial. The people of this country have been living in a state of fear. The Armed Forces promotion exercise is still fresh in your minds. Whatever reasons they have for the promotion one can only say that they are ambitious. They in fact took over power to enrich themselves.
We are convinced that some of the programmes announced for a return to civilian rule are made to favor a particular group. To mention only one. Maitama Sule is a politician. But has been appointed Chief of Commissioners for Complaints. This is to prepare him for the next political head at all cost. How many of you know that Maitama Sule is on a salary of N17,000 p.a.?
In view of what I have just said and a lot more which time will not permit me to mention, we the Young Revolutionaries have once again taken over the Government to save Murtala from total disgrace and prevent him from committing further blunders and totally collapsing the country before he runs away in the name of retirement to enjoy the huge fortune he got through bribe which he has now stored outside this country. I believe that charity should begin at home.
Please stay by your radio for further announcements.
We are all together.
Courtesy of Dawodu.com
what a baseless speech...? if its now, book go full oooo, imagine the 17k p.a salary he's complaining about to the amount of loot we have these days
ReplyDeleteI was told MM millitary regime was one of the best,no wonder our papa n mama thy call any kids talk too much wen were young Dimka,baseless speech!
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What rubbish! But at least it's better than that of Gideon Okar- the most stupid coup speech ever! The only sensible and patriotic coup speech ever made in Nigeria was that of Nzeogu Kaduna's 1966 coup. I tend to believe that Nzeogu really had the welfare of all Nigerians in mind and sincerely sought a united Nigeria,unfortunately his own people betrayed him and hijacked his revolution.
ReplyDeleteso many young Nigerians had this country at heart. corruption didn't start today. this same people fought by this young coup plotter are still the ones destroying our economy. No space for young people in this country.
ReplyDeleteIf in the 70s such young people could do what they did and we with our degrees can not even challenge the so called leaders of today, we should stop making comments. How I wish, Murtala stayed longer than that may be, we will not be saying that he was good. One thing with these soldiers is that they know themselves better than us. All of you that made statements about Dimka, do you know where Murtala was from? Go and find out.
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