Days after the death of his Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba
Kyari was confirmed, another staff working directly with President Buhari has
died. The demise of Lawal Mato, a long-serving bodyguard to the President was
confirmed on Tuesday by Garba Shehu, the President’s Special Assistant on Media
and Publicity.
“After three years of struggling with diabetes, one of
President Muhammadu Buhari’s bodyguards, Warrant Officer Lawal Mato, on Tuesday
passed away.
The President described the officer, who had been working
with him for many years before he won the 2015 elections, as ‘very thorough,
trustworthy and dependable soldier who carried out his duty with diligence and
focus.’
President Buhari prayed that Allah will ease his passage to
paradise and grant his family, government and people of Jigawa State, the
fortitude to bear the loss.
WO Mato was part of a team that former President Umaru Musa
Yar’adua restored to President Buhari as personal security and he had been off
full duty for three years, treating diabetes”, Shehu wrote in a statement.
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