Early October 1967.
Footage of soldiers of the First Division of the Federal Army of Nigeria securing positions around the city of Enugu, the capital city of the defunct Eastern Region of Nigeria, which had briefly functioned as the capital of Biafra.
Among them, Lieutenant Colonel Theophilus Danjuma, the commanding officer of several battalions of the division, is filmed outside the abandoned premises of State House and later worshipping inside the city's Holy Ghost Cathedral.
The Biafran government led by Lieutenant Colonel Emeka Ojukwu relocated the seat of government to Umuahia.
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As a Major, Danjuma was involved in the July 1966 reprisal coup against the military regime led by Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi. Ironsi was arrested at State House, Ibadan by Danjuma after a siege by Northern soldiers. He claimed to lose control of the situation to a group of Northen NCOs and a junior officer named William Walbe who took Ironsi and his host, Lieutenant Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, the military governor of the Western region, to the outskirts of Ibadan where both men were executed after being subjected to torture.
Danjuma became the Army Chief of Staff after the coup which brought Brigadier Murtala Muhammed to power in July 1975. He retired in 1979 as a Lieutenant General after the handover to civilian government in October 1979.
Негізгі бет Lt Colonel Theophilus Danjuma | Federal 1st Division of the Nigerian Army Take Enugu | October 1967
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