The 1986 Coup Trials: When Babangida Ordered the Execution of His Friend Mamman Vatsa Renowned journalist and author Richard Akinnola revisits one of Nigeria’s most haunting episodes of military rule. Drawing on his book Fellow Countrymen, he accuses former head of state General Ibrahim Babangida of ordering the execution of his own childhood friend and ally, Major General Mamman Vatsa, during the 1986 coup trials, despite the lack of solid evidence tying Vatsa to the alleged plot. Akinnola unpa
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