The mystery gunman and other myths from the East, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Nigeria, March 10 -- On 15 October, 1965, as political uncertainty and violence raged in Western Nigeria, Ladoke Akintola, the regional premier, was due to deliver a primetime radio broadcast to his people at 19:00. Some minutes before the appointed hour, an armed, unmasked and bearded young man appeared in the studio and required Akinwande Oshin, head of the newsroom at the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation (WNBC) to substitute the recorded broadcast of the premier with a tape provided by the gunman. At the appointed hour, the entire region - including the premier - listened as the voice from the gunman's tape exhorted the premier to spare the region further turmoil and go.
His mission accomplished, the gunman promptly vanished i...
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