By Oboh
Publication Date: 2026-01-15 06:42:00
Major-General Ibrahim Bata Malgwi Haruna (Retd) was a one-time Federal Commissioner for Information and Culture (1975 – 1977), and was former Chairman, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF (2009 – 2012). In this explosive interview conducted by Vanguard’s Regional Editor, North, Soni Daniel, General Haruna brings a dynamic perspective to the issue of the January 15, 1966 coup led by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu. Sixty years after, General Haruna reveals that the contemporary realities of that era made it inevitable for a coup of any sort to happen.
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He delves into the history and histrionics that have continued to drive narratives which are at once disruptive and divisive. When a call was placed to him for the interview centred around the sixtieth anniversary of the January 15, 1966 coup, he obliged. But the interview went beyond that brief, stringing together historical…
