The war began in 1967 and July 6, but before then there had been two coup d'etat. The soldiers alleged that Nigeria was sliding into just kleptocracy and money corruption. And so they felt that they had to sort of deal with the evil elements within the Nigerian army. It's really a formative experience of modern Nigeria or post-independence Nigeria.

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