Despite being detained alongside Gideon OrkAr after failed 1990 coup, I didn’t see him before IBB killed him –Jethro Orkar

Jethro Orkar, a Second Republic commissioner in Benue State, is an elder brother of the late Major Gideon Orkar, who spearheaded the failed 1990 coup against the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, and was killed, alongside 41 others, by a firing squad. In this interview with JOHN CHARLES, Jethro recalls the events of the time…

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