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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.