![]() Participation in the 13 February 1976 Coup Dimka marshaled a group of northern soldiers who pursued Ogbemudia (sometimes shooting) all the way from Kaduna to Owo, Ondo State where Ogbemudia abandoned his Landrover (which had run out of fuel) and scaled a 6-foot fence into a dense jungle to escape Dimka and his soldiers. Fortunately, Ogbemudia was tipped off by Major Abba Kyari and Colonel Hassan Katsina who provided an escape Landrover armed with a submachine gun. Vexed by Ogbemudia's treatment of him, Dimka hatched a plot to kill Major Ogbemudia. Under interrogation by Ogbemudia, Dimka complained of ethnic victimization and was subsequently released by Ogbemudia. Before the mutiny, Major Ogbemudia had detained Lieutenant Dimka for violating an order forbidding unauthorized troop movement. ![]() Another act of notoriety from the July mutiny was Dimka's pursuit and probable intent to murder his Brigade Major ( Samuel Ogbemudia). Dimka along with Lieutenant Dambo are alleged to have shot and killed Lieutenant Colonel Michael Okoro, Commander of the 3rd Battalion during the July mutiny. Colonel Murtala Muhammed (the coup leader whom Dimka conspired against and murdered ten years later), 2nd Lieutenant Sani Abacha, Lieutenant Muhammadu Buhari, Lieutenant Ibrahim Bako, Lieutenant Ibrahim Babangida, and Major Theophilus Danjuma among others. ![]() Participation in the Nigerian counter coup of July 1966 ĭimka, then a lieutenant with the Nigerian Military Training College in Kaduna, was one of many officers of northern Nigerian origin who staged what became known as the Nigerian counter-coup of 1966 because of grievances they felt towards the administration of General Aguiyi Ironsi's government which had quelled the 15 January 1966 coup. Boniface Ikejiofor) were the first two Nigerian Army officers to train in Australia and successfully complete the 12 months course at the school with cadets from Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, the Philippines and the Pacific Islands. ![]() Dimka also participated in the Nigerian counter-coup of 1966 which toppled the government of General Aguiyi Ironsi.īukar Suwa Dimka was commissioned as a Second-Lieutenant from the Australian Army Officer Cadet School, Portsea, into the Nigerian Army on 13 December 1963. Lieutenant Colonel Bukar Suwa Dimka (1940 – ) was a Nigerian Army officer who played a leading role in the 13 February 1976 abortive military coup against the government of General Murtala Ramat Muhammed. ![]()
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