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The fear of Ironsi was real. As a United Nations Peace keeper in the Congo, he braved Katanga rebels to rescue an Austrian medical team and some Nigerian soldiers. That act earned him the Ritter Kruez ( First Class) medal.
Pele made three infamous trips to Lagos in the 60s and 70s, which was then the capital of Nigeria.
Pele, the Brazil football legend and three-time World Cup winner, was among foreigners who were trapped in Nigeria during the 1976 coup when Lt Col Buka Suka Dimka murdered the then Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed. It was like when Frederick Forsyth, the British novelist, was trapped in Guinea-Bissau, a West African country, during a coup. SaharaReporters had reported that Pele died on Thursday at the age of 82.
The strongest objection that has been put up is the impression that has now been created that the state protects the rich and that the poor in Nigeria has nothing.
One of the major events Ben Egbuna covered as a young reporter was the coup d’etat of February 13, 1976, leading to Gen. Mohammed's death.