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Buhari Mourns As Personal Bodyguard Dies After Long Battle With Diabetes

President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari

 

One of President Muhammadu Buhari’s personal bodyguards, Warrant Officer Lawal Mato, is dead.

 

The announcement of Mato’s death was made on Tuesday by the Presidency.

 

Mato, according to a statement issued by Senior Special Assistant
to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, succumbed
to diabetes, which he had struggled with in the last three years, on
Tuesday.

 

He was one of the security details restored back to President
Buhari by the late President Umaru Musa-Yar’adua as personal security,
but had been off full duty in the last three years.

 

“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”, t
he statement said.

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