Nigeria: Babangida - Vatsa's Execution, My Most Traumatic Decision

17 August 2011

Signing the death warrant of a childhood friend is not exactly a position anyone would like to be - especially when that friend had become more like a blood brother.

As former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, marks his 70th birthday Wednesday, he looks back in pain, revealing that the execution of Major-General Mamman Vatsa, who was the Best Man at his wedding, for an abortive coup is "the most traumatic decision I have ever taken in my life".

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