The former Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Victor Samuel Leonard Malu is dead....
Late Malu was appointed Nigeria’s COAS by former President,
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 to 2001 and Force Commander of the
ECOMOG peacekeeping in Liberia, from 1996 to 1998.
According to a family source, Lt. Gen. Malu died in the early hours of Monday in Cairo, Egypt at the age of 70.
He was born 15th January 1974 in Katsina-Ala local government area of Benue State.Malu enrolled at the Nigerian Defense Academy in Kaduna in
1967 as part of the 3rd Regular Course and was commissioned as a second
lieutenant in 1970.The erstwhile army chief was chairman of the Military
Tribunal that tried the former Chief of General Staff, and Vice
Chairman, Armed Forces Ruling Council, Gen. Oladipo Diya and others over
the alleged failed coup plot against the then Head of State, Gen. Sanni
Abacha.
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