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Murtala: 44 years after - The Nation Newspaper...
Murtala Muhammad, 45 Years After!
Forty-five years ago, a former Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Muhammad, was assassinated in cold blood, writes Yinka Kolawole
“For too long we have paid lip service to issues of remoulding our society; for too often we have talked glibly of the birth of a new nation.
Now is the time to rethink, to reflect and to act”, wrote the late Murtala Ramat Muhammad.
That was one of the numerous dreams, hopes and expectations he had for his beloved country Nigeria. However, the quest for power with cutthroat ambition, complex and ego-centrism by a few disgruntled dissident soldiers did not allow him realise his laudable objective of cleansing Nigeria.
It was exactly 45 years on February 13, 2021, when the nation lost this icon.
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He was Nigeria’s Head of State from 30th July 1975, until his assassination. He was killed in Lagos at the Age of 37 years, although born in Kano on November 8,1938.
He was gruesomely assassinated. But for student of politi