Former chief of army staff Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai (Rtd), according to vice president Sen Kashim Shettima, is one of the country’s most prominent generals ever.
Shettima served as chairman of three books published in honor of the former army chief in Abuja yesterday.
Jibrin Baba Ndace, a former defense correspondent for Blueprint newspapers, wrote the book “walking the war front with lt.
Gen. TY Buratai, duty calls: under Buratai’s Command and the lonely grave, and other poems.” Sen. Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia, a one-term deputy governor of Jigawa state, praised Buratai for his doggedness in the war against the insurgency.
He said the efforts of Buratai and his colleagues had resulted in Nigeria currently recording fewer incidences of terrorist attacks since 2011.
Minister of Defence, Maj Gen Bashir Magashi (Rtd), represented by Major General A.T Jibril (Rtd)Special Adviser Technical to the Minister, said Buratai was a patriotic officer who did his best for the safety of Nigerians.
