The National Commission for the Consolidation of Peace was set up, but accomplished little or nothing.[5] The Neutral Monitoring Group was supposed to number 700, but the RUF objected, proposing it consist of only 120 monitors, and agreement could not be reached.[5] Then RUF spokesmen and supporters of the Commission for the Consolidation of Peace, Fayia Musa, Ibrahim Deen-Jalloh and Philip Palmer, attempted to overthrow Sankoh as leader of the RUF[5] after Sankoh was arrested in Nigeria.[6] The three were captured by RUF forces, and Sankoh consolidated power in the RUF.[6] A military coup on 25 May 1997 by Johnny Paul Koroma, leader of the newly formed Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, resulted in an alliance with the RUF.[5] This was certainly the death knell for any hope of peace stemming from the Abidjan Accord.