Details have emerged on how the hero of Nigeria’s first
coup d’etat of Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu committed suicide in the battle
field by injecting himself with poisonous liquid in a bid to escape being
captured alive by the Nigerian army.
Speaking during an interview recently, Nzeogwu’s younger
sister, Susan Uwechie said that after injecting himself, he threw a grenade. By
then, the Nigerian soldiers were around. He was together with Emmanuel Ifeajuna,
his colleague. Ifeajuna sneaked out and informed the Nigerian soldiers that
‘that person that is holding the war, I just left him there. Go there, and you
will meet him’. Immediately they came near, he injected himself with poison and
released a grenade. All those soldiers died with him…
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