THE PATHETIC STORY OF THE NIGERIAN COUP OF 1976.PART 8

Dimka's visit to London no doubt was to inform Gowon about the coup and he met those who visited Gowon who were with him also in prison and told him Gowon had no prior knowledge of the coup.Had he been seduced back how,he would have been killed.Infact the failure to extradite him by the British angered the Nigerian Goverment to launch vengeance on Gomwalk and the first set of people that were killed were thirty three soldiers,including Dabang,who was evacuated from Hospital where he was recuperating.Goyol eulogised Dimka for savinghim from death,that he would havebeen killed had Dimka,spokena lie against him.He said,while they were before the tribunal and gave testimonies of their involvement,investigations showed he was close to Dimka and they felt,he must have known a lot about the coup.He too did not deny Dimka,who did a lot during his wedding as in law but did not tell him about the coup,in order not to disrupt his education.That was how he was saved from the hangman's noose.Nobody knew Gomwalk offences.