President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the conferment of
Nigeria’s second highest national honour on the former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.
Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai (retired), Tdpnewsng.com
can reliably confirm.
Buratai will be
decorated with the Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR) at an
investiture ceremony scheduled for October 11, 2022, at the International
Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja.
The award is
coming about 19 months after President Buhari appointed Buratai, alongside
other retiring service chiefs, as non-career ambassadors.
While Buratai
was appointed as Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Benin Republic, a former Defence
Chief, Gen. Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin (retd.), was named the Head of Mission
to Cameroon.
Other former
service chiefs rewarded with ambassadorial appointments by the president
included Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar (Rtd),
and Air Vice Marshal Mohammed S. Usman (Rtd).
A letter conveying President Buhari’s award of the CFR title to
Buratai was sited on Thursday.
The letter
marked FMSDIGA/NHA/001/T/90 and dated September 16, 2022, was signed by George
Akume, the Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs.
It partly reads,
“I have the honour to formally inform you that the President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has approved the
conferment of the National Honours on you, in the rank of CFR (Commander of the
Order of the Federal Republic).”
Akume noted in
the letter that accommodation with complimentary breakfast had been reserved
for the former Army Chief at Fraizer Suites, from where he would proceed to the
venue of the ceremony, while requesting him to “forward a one-page citation and
current passport photograph” to an email provided.
Meanwhile, a
separate letter dated September 19 and marked FMSDIGA/NHA/001/T/91 also
indicated that President Buhari had approved the conferment of the Officer of
the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) title on Dr Bashir Yusuf Jamoh, the
Director-General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency
(NIMASA).
Jamoh and Buratai were directed to visit a website
(https://fmsdiga-nha.org.ng/) to provide their biodata and biography for
processing of the national honours.
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