TUKUR YUSUFU BURATAI: A SERVICE CHIEF,DIPLOMAT, KINGMAKER AND AN IMPACTFUL TEACHER. By Comrade Oladimeji Odeyemi
To say that history never forgets those who wholeheartedly serve their fatherland is never a mistake as reference will always be made to their contributions to humanity.
I have seen people who made a significant impact in changing their world, but those who give their very best are few in numbers.
Making other people’s safety a responsibility is no small job, and to talk of a whole nation, of course, it’s a Herculean task, and that is why even when he has dropped the baton in the Nigerian Army, the name Tukur Yusufu Buratai continues to ring the bell every left, right, and center.
This is more like the very first time we will be having a former Chief of Army Staff, (COAS) in Africa giving back to society in such a great volume as General Tukur Buratai, who ever since he retired has been seeing almost everywhere teaching the public the necessities of a safer society.
When others feel they have done much enough to quit, Tukur Butatai seizes every given opportunity that life presents to make himself beneficial to the people so that our peaceful coexistence as a country remains unshaken.
How else should we describe this amazing personality who from a Soldier, (Chief of Army Staff) after retirement and became a Diplomat, (Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Republic of Benin)
He has several notable awards and traditional titles also to his credit as a mark of honour and recognition of his invaluable quota to nation-building among which are: the Garkuwan Keffi, the Balogun Agba of owu kuta, the Aare Akinrogun of Ibadan land, the Jagunmolu of Saki land, the Baakore of Akure Kingdom and more recently on the 27th October 2023, he was turbanned as the Betera of Biu Emirate (one of the kingmakers) and also on the 28th October 2023, he was conferred with the Honorary Doctor of letters by the Nigerian Army University Biu.
This Friday, the 3RD of November, 2023, Ambassador (Lt General rtd) Tukur Buratai CFR, the Betera of Biu, will be delivering a lecture, ” Public Service and the Imperatives for National Security in Nigeria”, at the University of Ibadan Alumni Center which as ever will undoubtedly be impactful and beneficial to the people and the nation.
This article was contributed by Comrade Oladimeji Odeyemi, a security analyst, the Convener of Coalition of Civil Society Groups Against Terrorism in Nigeria and other CSO’s and a leader of APC in Oluyole Federal Constituency, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
