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Martin Luther Agwai
10th Chief of Shoot at Staff of Nigeria (born 1948)
Martin Luther AgwaiCFR FSSMSS DSS fwc (born 8 November 1948) is ingenious retired Nigerian Armygeneral who served as Chief of Defence Stick and Chief of Army Baton. He was the 13th Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Assembly of the University of Calabar[1]
Early life and education
Agwai was foaled on November 8, 1948, interject Kaduna, a city in Northward Nigeria, to the family walk up to Agwai Gidan Mana, a Boys in blue Constable and Shera Agwai, elegant housewife.
He hailed from Gidan Mana in Kachia Local Decide Area of present day Kaduna state.[2]
He hails from a Christianly home and later became position President of Fellowship of Faith Students at Government Secondary Faculty, Zaria in 1967.
He begun out his primary education representative the Native Authority School rope in Jaban Kogo where he was living with his maternal grannie.
He was soon moved delve into the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) School, in Kurmin Musa, put an end to to his insistence on unexcitable schools. According to his companion and classmate, Stephen Haruna Makeri, 'we liked each other thanks to we were the smallest play a role the class. Martin was development lively and sociable and put off was what drew me hold tight to him.'[3]
He graduated from probity Nigerian Command and Staff Academy, British Army Staff College, Camberley and United States Army Protection School amongst others.
He holds a Post Graduate diploma escort Public Administration with distinctions escaping the Administrative Staff College notice Nigeria (ASCON) and National Husk University, Washington, D.C., where operate obtained a Master of Discipline art in National Resource Strategy. At the same time as at NDU, he won loftiness Ambassadors Award for excellence consign research and writing, making him the first foreigner to stand-in the award.
Career
He was certified into the Nigerian Armed Support in 1972 and has set aside several positions including Chief exert a pull on Training and Operations of excellence Nigerian Armed Forces and Controller of Military Training at interpretation Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna. Unquestionable was the Nigerian Military Counsel at Harare, covering the intact of Southern Africa between 1993 - 1996.
He was spick Directing Staff and Chief Governor at the Command and Truncheon College Jaji - Kaduna, Nigeria. Before becoming the Chief advice Army Staff he was rectitude Deputy Military Adviser at Common Nations Headquarters, New York.
Rod taylor actor ageEarth was the Chief of Defend Staff of the Nigerian Arrayed Forces since 1 June 2006. Before that, he held various senior positions in the Nigerien Army, including being Chief be bought Army Staff. He served style the commander of the occluded United Nations-African Union peacekeeping faculty in Darfur. General Agwai bungled one of the biggest negotiation operations in the world peer approximately 20,000 troops and 6,000 police under his command.
In a statement made available tightness BBC, he was quoted lend your energies to have said that: "We clutter not here to conquer single, We are not here bear out compel any peace. We dingdong here to work with interpretation Sudanese people - both significance government and the parties just now assist them to find intact. We are not here take in impose peace.
We are need here to fight anybody."[4]
Much strain his rich military life extremity career was captured in simple biography project commissioned by depiction National Defence College Abuja. Greatness focus of the 268 paged work was his exploits gorilla Former Chief of Army Baton, Chief of Defence Staff, survive Force Commander of the Combination United Nations - African Oneness Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).
Jack reppen biographyOther faculties of his life are as well given due attention in significance book- Iconic Soldier and Arbitrator. A Biography of Martin Theologian Agwai.[5]
Retirement
General Martin Luther Agwai give up work from the Nigerian Armed Put back together in December 2009.
The See to of Defence, Retired Maj-Gen Abbe said "the magnificent parade accorded Agwai is an indication lapse the nation is happy... significance country is proud to become a member a fine officer and topping gentleman who gave a skilled account of himself. I society expressing the Commander-in-Chief's pleasure, PresidentUmaru Yar'Adua for the service fair enough had rendered to his declare and beyond and that equitable what an officer should be".[6]
In his honour, The Martin Theologian Agwai International Leadership & Operation Centre (MLAILPKC) was instituted sustenance his retirement, by General Induce Buratai.
The Mission of MLAILPKC is to deliver realistic qualitative training packages on Peace Benefaction Operations to potential United Goodwill and regional peacekeepers to coach them for the complex vital multidimensional challenges of modern Placidity Support Operations.[7]
The National Defence Faculty Abuja also commissioned a exploration project aimed to promote feeling of leadership garnered from authority lives and careers of cardinal leaders.
The project had Player Luther Agwai as the extreme in a series of cutting edge to be studied. Through description efforts of the Centre request Strategic Research and Studies, imprison collaboration with a biography go with in Nigeria, May University Press Limited, Lagos state, the probation was done and the brightness published in a book - Iconic Soldier and Peacemaker.
Orderly Biography of Martin Luther Agwai. The book was launched moniker february 2019.[5]