The moment Gen Yakubu Gowon was informed that he had been overthrown, 29th July, 1975, while at an OAU Summit at Kampala, Uganda. We had covered this before, which included events in Lagos that day, but this exhaustively captured the moments as it unfolded in Kampala. Scenes.

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