Joseph Gomwalk
Joseph Dechi Gomwalk was a Nigerian police commissioner and the first military governor of the defunct Benue-Plateau State. He was tried and then executed due to his alleged connections to the Buka Suka Dimka's attempted coup against the military government of Murtala Mohammed.
Education
Gomwalk was Ngas from Ampang in the presentday Kanke Local Government Area of Plateau State. He attended the famous Boys' Secondary School, Gindiri, where he graduated with distinctions in both academics and sports. He proceeded to the premier University of Ibadan and graduated with a degree in Zoology.Governorship of Benue-Plateau State
Gomwalk was governor of the state from 1967 until 1975, when military head of state Yakubu Gowon's regime was toppled in a coup d'état.As governor, Gomwalk's administration founded the Nigerian Standard daily in 1972. After failing to get Ahmadu Bello University of Zaria to open a satellite campus in the state, he turned to the University of Ibadan; that institution opened its Jos campus in November 1971.
In August 1974, affidavits alleging corruption on the part of Gomwalk and Joseph Tarka, Benue-Plateau State's representative to the Federal Executive Council, were published; Tarka resigned, but Gomwalk, with Gowon's support, remained in office.