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Bukar Suwa Dimka
Nigerian military officer (–)
Lieutenant ColonelBukar Suwa Dimka ( – 15 May )[1] was a Nigerian military officer who played a leading role in the 13 February abortive military coup against the government of General Murtala Ramat Muhammed.
Dimka had also participated in the Nigerian counter-coup of which toppled the government of General Aguiyi Ironsi.
Education
Bukar Suwar Dimka was commissioned as a Second-Lieutenant from the Australian ArmyOfficer Cadet School, Portsea, into the Nigerian Army on 13 December He and Lt.
Boniface Ikejiofor were the first two Nigerian Army officers to train in Australia and complete the 12 months course at the school with cadets from Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, the Philippines and the Pacific Islands.[2]
Participation in the Nigerian counter-coup of July
Dimka, then a lieutenant with the Nigerian Military Training College in Kaduna, was one of many officers of northern Nigerian origin who stag