Former Chief of General Staff, Major General Oladipo Diya narrowly escapes a bomb explosion on this day in 1997, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Between January 1984 to August 1985, Diya was the Military Governor of Ogun State and was also Vice President as Chief of general Staff during Gen Sani Abacha’s military regime.
Diya had allegedly planned to overthrow the Abacha regime but was arrested and jailed alongside his cohorts in 1997 for treason. He was later sentenced to death by firing squad in 1998 by a military tribunal sitting in Jos but later commuted to a 25-year jail term.
On 3 March 1999, Major General Diya and his colleagues were reportedly released after General Abdulsalam Abubakar granted them amnesty. Major General Diya, and his colleagues including Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju, Major Gen. Abdulkareem Adisa, Col. EI. Jando, Col. Yakubu Bako, Lt. Col. O.O. Akinyode, Major A.A. Fadipe, Major B.M. Mohammed and Lance Corporal Galadima Tanko, were not only released but henceforth dismissed from the service, stripped of their ranks, and reportedly prohibited from using their military titles.
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