Former
Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Victor Malu, is dead.
A family
source confirmed to Channels Television today (Monday) that General Malu died
at the age of 70 in the early hours of Sunday.
He was
said to have travelled to Cairo, Egypt for a medical check-up and died at a
hospital after he had battled diabetes and stroke since 2008.
“The late
General travelled two weeks ago to Cairo for his regular check-up, but could
not make it back,” said the source.
Malu was
Commander of Economic Community of West Africa Monitoring Group, ECOMOG Peace
Keeping Force to Sierra Leone and Liberia between August 1996 and January 1998.
He was
later appointed Chief of Army Staff by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in
1999.
He also
chaired the military tribunal that tried Lieutenant General Oladipo Diya,
erstwhile Chief of General Staff and Vice Chairman, Armed Forces Ruling
Council, in 1998 over alleged coup plot against late Head of State General Sani
Abacha.
The late
general whose village, Tse-Adoor in Benue State, was razed down by the military
invasion of Zaki-Biam in 2001, was born on January 15, 1947.
He
enrolled into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna as part of the Third
Regular Course in 1967 was later commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1970.
May his soul rest in peace.
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