Chukwueke’s July 29 pain, by Emeka Obasi

The easiest way to ease the pain of 1966 is to continue to let everyone know what happened from January to August of that year. There was no reason to go to war if those soldiers and their collaborators remained in their barracks and looked away from politics.Chukwuemeka  Chukwueke was eight weeks old when  his father, Captain Johnson Ibeawuchi Chukwueke, was gunned down at the Ikeja Cantonment. It was during the July 29, 1966 coup that claimed the lives of Head of State, Gen. Johnson