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Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka and other prominent Nigerians, at the weekend, paid tribute to the late Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru.

• Widow: I’m setting up a foundation to inspire young Nigerians to serveSoyinka, who spoke in Abuja during the one year remembrance of Attahiru, organised by his Foundation established by his widow, Mrs Fati Attahiru, said Nigerians and the country at large have paid huge price to impunity and continued to suffer from the same menace.

“But the new generation should also be programmed to aspire to brutish existence below the lowest common denominator of what constitutes human’,’ he said. She said: ‘’Islam does not preach what they do and the prophet if alive would not have allowed such a madness done to anyone. I feel it is necessary to defend him and the religion which this crazy people smear with their crazy actions.’’

“The General Ibrahim Attahiru Foundation was borne out of the need to uphold his ideals and principles, but more importantly for my three little girls and young Nigerians to have the will to proudly serve their country with all their might like he did and believe that their labour shall never be in vain.”

Although pundits are still worried that the cause of the incident remains unknown, military air crashes have not abated. The ill-fated aircraft killed 11 military officers onboard, including Attahiru, on May 21, 2021.

 

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