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'''Mamman Jiya Vatsa''' {{post-nominals|country=NG|OFR}} (3 December 1940 – 5 March 1986) was a Nigerian general and poet who served as Minister of the Federal Capital [[Abuja]], and was a member of the [[Supreme Military Council (Nigeria 1966)|Supreme Military Council]] | '''Mamman Jiya Vatsa''' {{post-nominals|country=NG|OFR}} (3 December 1940 – 5 March 1986) was a [[Nigerians|Nigerian]] [[General officer|general]] and [[poet]] who served as Minister of the Federal Capital [[Abuja]], and was a member of the [[Supreme Military Council (Nigeria 1966)|Supreme Military Council]] | ||
On 5 March 1986, he was executed by the military regime of General [[Ibrahim Babangida]] (who was his childhood friend) following a military tribunal conviction for treason associated with an abortive coup. | On 5 March 1986, he was executed by the military regime of General [[Ibrahim Babangida]] (who was his childhood friend) following a military tribunal conviction for treason associated with an abortive coup. | ||
==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
Vatsa was childhood friends with [[Ibrahim Babangida]] and both men were peers who attended the same educational institutions. Like Babangida, Vatsa attended the [[Government College Bida]] from 1957 to 1962 and started his career with the Nigerian Army by enrolling in the Nigerian Military Training College (NMTC) on 10 December 1962.<ref name=Abejide>{{cite book|last1=Abejide|first1=Olusegun|title=IBB – Smart But Foolish: THE FALL OF A GOLIATH|date=21 January 2011|publisher=Trafford Publishing, 2011|isbn=9781426955938|page=55|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jDFqL-reWjsC&q=vatsa+secondary+school+bida&pg=PA55|accessdate=11 August | Vatsa was childhood friends with [[Ibrahim Babangida]] and both men were peers who attended the same educational institutions. Like Babangida, Vatsa attended the [[Government College Bida]] from 1957 to 1962 and started his career with the Nigerian Army by enrolling in the Nigerian Military Training College (NMTC) on 10 December 1962.<ref name=Abejide>{{cite book|last1=Abejide|first1=Olusegun|title=IBB – Smart But Foolish: THE FALL OF A GOLIATH|date=21 January 2011|publisher=Trafford Publishing, 2011|isbn=9781426955938|page=55|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jDFqL-reWjsC&q=vatsa+secondary+school+bida&pg=PA55|accessdate=11 August 2015}}</ref> | ||
==Military career== | ==Military career== | ||
Since the NMTC was not yet an officer candidate commissioning institution (it would later become one in 1964 when it was upgraded and renamed [[Nigerian Defence Academy]]), the Nigerian government sent NMTC cadets who had completed their preparatory cadet training to foreign military academies for officer training and commissioning.<ref name=Ogbebor>{{cite web|last1=Ogbebor|first1=Paul Osakpamwan|title=The Nigerian Defence Academy – A Pioneer Cadet's Memoir|url=http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/the-nigerian-defence-academy-a-pioneer-cadets-memoir/#sthash.Oo9A0qMO.dpuf|website=Vanguard (Nigeria)|accessdate=11 August | Since the NMTC was not yet an officer candidate commissioning institution (it would later become one in 1964 when it was upgraded and renamed [[Nigerian Defence Academy]]), the Nigerian government sent NMTC cadets who had completed their preparatory cadet training to foreign military academies for officer training and commissioning.<ref name=Ogbebor>{{cite web|last1=Ogbebor|first1=Paul Osakpamwan|title=The Nigerian Defence Academy – A Pioneer Cadet's Memoir|url=http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/the-nigerian-defence-academy-a-pioneer-cadets-memoir/#sthash.Oo9A0qMO.dpuf|website=Vanguard (Nigeria)|accessdate=11 August 2015}}</ref> After graduating from the [[Indian Military Academy]], [[Dehradun]], Vatsa was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Nigerian Army<ref name=Abejide /> | ||
Vatsa, then a Lieutenant with the 4th Battalion in [[Ibadan]], was one of the many officers of northern Nigerian origin, who staged (and were led by [[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Murtala Muhammed]] in) what became known as the [[Nigerian counter-coup of 1966]] because of grievances<ref name="Siollun">{{cite book|last1=Siollun|first1=Max|title=Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria's Military Coup Culture (1966 - 1976)|year=2009|publisher=Algora|isbn=9780875867090|page=97}}</ref> they felt towards the administration of [[Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi|General Aguiyi Ironsi]]'s government which quelled the 15 January 1966 coup. Other participants in the coup included 2nd Lieutenant [[Sanni Abacha]], Lieutenant [[Muhammadu Buhari]], Lieutenant [[Ibrahim Babangida]], Lieutenant [[Ibrahim Bako]], and Lieutenant [[Buka Suka Dimka]] among others. | Vatsa, then a Lieutenant with the 4th Battalion in [[Ibadan]], was one of the many officers of northern Nigerian origin, who staged (and were led by [[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Murtala Muhammed]] in) what became known as the [[Nigerian counter-coup of 1966]] because of grievances<ref name="Siollun">{{cite book|last1=Siollun|first1=Max|title=Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria's Military Coup Culture (1966 - 1976)|year=2009|publisher=Algora|isbn=9780875867090|page=97}}</ref> they felt towards the administration of [[Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi|General Aguiyi Ironsi]]'s government which quelled the 15 January 1966 coup. Other participants in the coup included 2nd Lieutenant [[Sanni Abacha]], Lieutenant [[Muhammadu Buhari]], Lieutenant [[Ibrahim Babangida]], Lieutenant [[Ibrahim Bako]], and Lieutenant [[Buka Suka Dimka]] among others. | ||