One of President Muhammadu Buhari’s bodyguards, Warrant Officer Lawal Mato, is dead.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that Mato passed on after three years of struggling with diabetes.
The military aide, he said, had been working with the President for many years before he became president in 2015.
The President was quoted to have described the military officer as a “very thorough, trustworthy and dependable soldier who carried out his duty with diligence and focus”.
“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,” the statement said.
The Presidential spokesperson prayed that Allah would ease Mato’s passage to paradise and grant his family, as well as the government and people of Jigawa State the fortitude to bear the loss.
