Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has said that the
Nigerian security crisis started January 15, 1966, when many prominent persons
were killed by some army officers.
1966 was a bloody year when a series of massacres were
committed against Igbo people and other persons of Southern Nigerian origin
living in northern Nigeria.
Between 8,000 and 30,000 Igbos and other Easterners were
estimated to have been killed in 1966.
Following the recent surge in insecurity across the country,
particularly in the North, the former Minister, in a post on his verified
Facebook page on Monday night, said since the 1966 massacre, Nigerians have
continued to settle differences by shedding blood.
He wrote, “The murder of over 20 prominent Nigerian leaders
on the night of Jan. 15th 1966 in a mutiny led by some young army officers was
the beginning of our troubles in Nigeria.
“From that point on matters were no longer settled by reason
in our body politic: they were settled by blood”!
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