Text of Dimka’s broadcast was as follows:  “Fellow Nigerians, This is Lt. Col. B.S. Dimka. I now explain why we the Young Revolutionaries of the Armed Forces have found it necessary to overthrow the six-month-old government of Murtala. On the 29th July 1975 the Government of General Gowon wa
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