Full List Of Top Army Generals To Be Forcefully Retired
Information reaching us that Following the appointment of Major-General Farouk Yahaya as the 22nd Chief of Army Staff, as many as ten Nigerian Army Major-Generals may be forced to resign.
President Muhammadu Buhari named Yahaya to succeed Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a military plane crash in Kaduna last Friday with ten other military officers.
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Yahaya, who was the Theatre Commander of Operation Hadan Kai (previously Lafiya Dole) in the North-East until his appointment, is a graduate of the Nigerian Defence Academy’s 37 Regular Course, while his predecessor, the late Attahiru, was a graduate of Course 35.
According to statistics, at least ten Major-Generals from the 35 and 36 Regular Courses are still serving in the Nigerian Army.
IBOM FOCUS had earlier reported how about 10 army generals will be Forceful Retired
Major General Ben Ahanotu, the current army’s Chief of Policy and Plan, is one of the senior military officers from Regular Course 35. Despite being from Anambra State, he is a native Hausa speaker. Major General A.M. Aliyu of Regular Course 36, the army’s Chief of Administration, hails from Gombe State.
On September 22, 1990, Yahaya, at 55 years old, was commissioned into the Nigerian Army Infantry Corps. There are also Yahaya’s classmates, like Major General Ibrahim Yusuf of Yobe State’s Regular Course 37. ads 15 He is the army’s Chief of Operations and the previous Multinational Joint Taskforce Force Commander.
No less than 20 generals from the three services who were members of courses 34 and 35 were retired to make room for them when Buhari appointed the current crop of service chiefs in January.
They were classmates with General Lucky Irabor, the Chief of Defence Staff from Course 34; Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, the late Chief of Army Staff from Course 35; Vice Admiral A.Z Gambo, the Chief of Naval Staff from Course 35; and Air Marshal Isiaka Amao, the Chief of Air Staff from Course 35.
