The story has been told of ex Nigerian military leader, Murtala Muhammad and how he was killed some years ago. Murtala Mohammed, Ajoke, his young wife and his two kids. (TIN Nigeria) He was whipping up a popularity that had fizzled out since Nigerian politicians in the First Republic discarded the trust of the Nigerian people, but that counted for nothing when 42 years ago today, on the 16th of February 1976, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed, was shot down by coup plotters, in the midst of Ikoyi traffic, while on his way to work. Today, anyone who has grown around the typical Nigerian displays of power would have a hard time understanding why a sitting military head of state would drive through Lagos traffic with no security. Yet this was only a reflection of the genteel and almost reckless lack of self-importance with which Murtala, as he was fondly called by most Nigerians, went about his business. Born on 9 November 1938 in Kano, one of his parents’ 11 children, Murtala joine