Army Chief's death a rude shock MINISTER OF DEFENCE MOURNS,

 

 SAYS LT GEN IBRAHIM ATTAHIRU PAYS SUPREME PRICE.

By Patience Ogbo

Minister of Defence, Maj Gen Bashir Salihi Magashi has described as a rude shock and unfortunate the death in a plane crash of the 21st Chief of Army Staff Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru barely four months in the saddle.

 

General Magashi in a condolence message said the Air mishap that claimed the precious lives of the Chief of Army Staff, alongside others senior officers and his aides is  a  national disaster.

 

Mohammad Abuldukadri Special Assistant to the Minister of Defence on Media and publicity  said  while condoling the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, President Muhammadu Buhari, the Military and the Nigerian  Army, immediate family and Nigeria in general described late General Attahiru as a  gallant, dogged, disciplined and dedicated senior officer who died in the line of duty to his fatherland. 

 "His  unblemished track records of service to the nation as Director Army Public Relations,(DAPR), Theatre Commander Operation Lafiya Dole and as General Officer Commanding, GOC which culminated into his elevation to the enviable three star status as Chief of Army Staff (COAS) in January this year. His emergence as Army  boss at such a critical times in the nation's efforts at surmounting her internal security challenges is symbolically strategic, impacting  but short lived in the anal of the service" 

General Magashi sadly noted that although the late General died when his service is needed most, his short but eventful tenure as the Chief of Army Staff and over three decades of dedicated, selfless and patriotic service will never been forgotten.

"He prayed Almighty Allah to forgive Late Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru  and to  grant him Alijannat Firidaus as well besiege  God to grant the nation, the Military constituency and his beloved family the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable loss"