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...cocoa, groundnuts, rubber and timber. In the Eastern Region's capital of Enugu, helmeted coal miners queued up as usual at the "Drink Tea and Eat Fried Meat and Radio Servicing" shop. At the Iddo Motor Park, beside the Bight of Benin, the lorries and "mammy wagons" of Ibo refugees were drawn into a frontier-style circle, while families clustered around huge pots of palm-oil chop-a bubbling mass of rice, meat, fish and coconut squeezings. The fatalistic mottoes on the mammy wagons seemed symbolically apt. "God knows best," read one; "I shall return," promised another...
...latest uprising was the work of Northern Moslems, acting to avenge the Southern-led January coup that had thrown them out of power and killed many of their leaders. It was also designed to forestall another coup, which dissatisfied Southern Ibos had reportedly been plotting against the regime they had put in power. The Southern gripe was simple: Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, an Ibo himself, had proved too soft on the Northerners...
...chiefs and emirs, Northern officers kidnaped him from the governor's palace and ordered him at gunpoint into a military Land Rover; his body was reportedly discovered last week outside a nearby village. At the army barracks at Ikeja, near the Lagos international airport, Northerners shot down every Ibo officer they could find, pursued others through Lagos itself, causing widespread panic in the capital; after one shooting incident, dozens of motorists abandoned their cars to flee on foot, and many foreign residents deserted their homes and took shelter in the swank Federal Palace Hotel...
...Enugu, capital of the Ibos' Eastern Region, Military Governor Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu barricaded himself inside police headquarters, declared his opposition to the new regime and called in Ibo political leaders to line up their support. "After these cruel and bloody atrocities," he charged, "can the people of Nigeria ever live together as members of the same nation...
...central administration. All the while, he was gaining enemies and losing friends. The Moslem North resented its sudden loss of power - not to mention the assassination of Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and the Sardauna of Sokoto, the two most powerful Northern leaders. In the South, the young Ibo officers who had led the military coup accused Ironsi of appeasement when he refused to allow drastic retaliation after an abortive Northern uprising in June...