President Bola Tinubu has honoured the twenty third Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Late Lieutenant Normal Taoreed Lagbaja, with the posthumous nationwide honour of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) to understand his invaluable contributions to the nation.
President Tinubu disclosed this on the Nationwide Army Cemetery in Abuja on Friday throughout his speech on the burial of the late COAS, who died final week Tuesday after a short sickness.
The President instantly paused and requested the widow of the Late Lieutenant Normal Lagbaja, Mrs Maria Lagbaja, to come back ahead to obtain the award medal.
LEADERSHIP earlier stories that President Tinubu led a crop of high political-office holders, Safety Chiefs, relations and associates of the late Lieutenant Normal Lagbaja, to bid farewell to the twenty third COAS.
The burial rites, happening on the Nationwide Army Cemetery in Abuja on Friday afternoon, adopted a funeral service earlier on the Nationwide Christian Centre, which was attended by First Woman, Mrs Remi Tinubu.
Moreover President Tinubu, who’s the particular visitor of honour on the solemn occasion, Vice President Kashim Shettima; Senate President Godswill Akpabio; Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas; Ministers and a few governors led by the chairman of the Nigeria Governors Discussion board (NGF), Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State, had been additionally current.
The army and different safety high brass was led by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Normal Christopher Musa. Additionally, in attendance had been conventional rulers and members of the Diplomatic Corps, amongst others.
Throughout their separate speeches, President Tinubu and CDS Musa described the Late Normal Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja as a ‘Soldier’s Soldier’.
Tinubu additionally stated his appointment of Lagbaja as COAS was certainly one of his finest choices.
