It was in the year 1997 when Diya and dissident soldiers in the military allegedly planned to overthrow the regime of Sani Abacha.
The alleged coup was revealed by forces loyal to Abacha, and Diya and his cohorts were jailed.
The accused were brought to the main military...
barracks in Jos for the trial. Security was tight, and the men on trial were chained hand and foot during the proceedings.
Then, after his arrest, a military tribunal sitting in the Nigerian town of Jos sentenced six people including Lieutenant General Oladipo Diya to death by firing squad in April 1998.
So, on the 4th of March in year 1999, Nigeria’s Military Government under the administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo released about forty-seven political prisoners which also included General Oladipo Diya.
More so, on this day in 2013 in Gwoza, Borno State, there was an attack by the radical Islamic extremist network Boko Haram where about eight persons were killed.
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