Document #1227999
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information on the requested subject could
not be found among the sources currently available to the
IRBDC.
As indicated by telephone, please find
attached some articles that provide information on the attempted
coup of April 1990 and contain some references to the security at
Dodan Barracks (listed below). These and various other sources
indicate that, after the attempted coup, the government of Ibrahim
Babangida was considering the reorganization of the government's
security system. Details of such a reorganization could not be
found among the available sources.
Africa Confidential [London].
18 May 1990. Vol. 31, No. 10. "Nigeria: More questions Than
Answers." Miramoor Publications Ltd.
Libération [Paris]. 25
April 1990. Steven Smith. "Querelle d'ethnies sur fond de putsch
avorté."
West Africa [London]. 30 April -
6 May 1990. "A Bloody Attempt."
. 7 - 13 May 1990. "Business as
Usual?"