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COAS Excellent Partner In Fight Against Insecurity – IGP

Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has described the late Chief Of Army Staff as an excellent partner in the fight against insecurity.

Gatekeepers News reports that the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has condoled with the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari over the loss of the Chief Of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru, and other officers.

The IGP in a statement signed by the Police Spokesman, Frank Mba, sympathises with the Nigerian Armed Forces, families, and friends of the deceased.

Gatekeepers News reported that the Chief of Army Staff, alongside six of his entourage and four crew members, lost their lives in an unfortunate air-mishap while on national assignment on Friday, 21 May 2021.

The statement read in part,
“The IGP is saddened by the fact that the late COAS died while on a patriotic mission to advance the course of peace and save the lives of others.”

Baba described him as “an exceptional military strategist, a friend of inestimable value, and an excellent partner in the ongoing fight against insurgency and other security challenges in the country.”

The IGP also noted that the late COAS represented “the best in the military tradition of courage, forthrightness, discipline, professional excellence, passion for national service, and strategic leadership”.

The statement read further, “The IGP acknowledged that the death of Lt. Gen. Attahiru is even more painful given the equally highly-loyal, promising and professionally excellent officers, whose lights were eternally dimmed along with him in the ill-fated flight. This is in addition to the reality that he left a nation he so much loved at a time his experience and service are most critical to our nation’s stability.”

The IGP, therefore, “urged the members of the Nigerian Armed Forces, particularly the officers and men of the Nigerian Army, not to allow the tragic incident to dampen their morale, but to remain focused in the collective quests at restoring law and order in the country, as that will be the most befitting honour and memorial we can collectively give to the late General and the other fallen heroes.”

Remi Ibikunle

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