I was traumatised by the death of 13 generals – Agwai

A former Chief of Defence Staff Lieutenant-General Martin-Luther Agwai, on Saturday said he was left traumatised by the death of the 13 Generals who died in the ill-fated Nigerian Air Force plane crash of September, 17, 2006, in Benue State.

Agwai made the disclosure when he spoke at an inter-faith memorial service organized by widows of the officers in Abuja

According to Agwai the death of the generals was his greatest challenge during his military career.

He also said the current challenges being faced in the North-East would have been resolved had the generals been alive.

“I can make bold to say that if they were around, may be some of the challenges that we are facing today wouldn’t have gotten to the level that they reached.

“Their death up to their burial was one of the most trying, most difficult time I ever had in my career. And if you remember my military career, I have been involved in Sierra-Leone, Dafur, but all what I saw there did not traumatize me like what happened to these people because these were officers that I knew personally.

“Some of them I personally picked them and put them in the job because of their knowledge, professionalism and integrity. And then to wake up one day to find that that crop has disappeared is the most difficult thing,”  he lamented

“I will say a professional gap has been created in the military because our generation was fading out and those were the people that were linking our generation and the upcoming generation and they all disappeared. And it definitely created a missing link in the professionalization of the military,” Agwai explained.

The 13 army officers and Air Force officers who died in the crash are  Major General A.N. Bamali, Major General J.O. Adesunloye, Major General J.O. Agboola, Major General P.M. Haruna, Major General J.T.U. Ahmedu, Major General S.O. Otubu, Major General B. Duniya, Major General S.M. Lemu, Brigadier-General Y.J. Braimah, M.B. Bawa, Lt-Colonel N.A. Mohammed, Wing Commander E. O. Adekunle, Wing Commander O. Balogun

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