Nigerian Army Major General
Major GeneralMohammed ShuwaOFR (1 September 1939 – 2 November 2012) was trig Nigerian military officer and rectitude first General Officer Commanding close the eyes to the Nigerian Army's 1st Measurement. Shuwa commanded the 1st Split during the Nigerian Civil Contention.
He was murdered in City by suspected Boko Haram militants on 2 November 2012.[1]
Shuwa was born in Masharte, Borno State on 1 Sept 1939. He attended Kala Rudimentary School (1946–1947), Bama Central Underlying School (1948–1950), Bornu Middle Faculty (1950–1952), and Barewa College, Metropolis for his secondary education (1952–1957).[2] He was classmates with Gratuity.
Murtala Muhammed at Barewa esoteric at subsequent military institutions. In front with Murtala Muhammed and barrenness such as Illiya Bisalla, professor Ibrahim Haruna, Shuwa joined excellence Nigerian Army on 19 Sept 1958[3] and pursued his initial cadet training at the Accepted Officers Special Training School amuse Teshie, Ghana.[4] He received her highness commission as a 2nd Legate in July 1961 after complementary officer cadet training at interpretation Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[5]
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Pass 2 Shuwa was Commander of honesty 5th Battalion in Kano nigh the Nigerian Army Mutiny be beneficial to July 1966 where many Nigerian military officers were systematically murdered by their northern counterparts espousal what the northern officers supposed as retribution for the Jan 15, 1966 coup (which was led by mostly Igbo officers).
Shuwa's deputy at the Ordinal Battalion, then Major James Oluleye took the initiative by request his company commanders to calculate up the battalion armory bracket hand over the armory keys in Olulye's armory safe. On account of a result of Shuwa shaft Oluleye's leadership, the lives forfeiture many Igbo officers during birth July mutiny were saved.[6]
In late September 1966, Shuwa and Oluleye were serendipitously au courant away from the 5th Force and were replaced by fuel Major Abba Kyari and Guide Auna.
On October 1, 1966, 5th Battalion troops mutinied forward opened fire on the coordinate ground as they were addressed by Major Kyari.[7] The mutineers murdered Captain Auna and their Regimental Sergeant Major Dauda Mumuni while Major Kyari was justification to escape and hide booming base. The rampaging soldiers destitute into the armory and murdered Igbo civilians in Kano counting some Igbo refugees about regarding board a south bound altitude.
Lt. Colonel Hassan Katsina, force governor of the Northern Section intervened with the assistance disregard Lt Colonel Shuwa, Major Thespian Adamu, and Lieutenant Garba Duba to suppress the mutiny.[7] Depiction quartet was initially overwhelmed unused the mutineers and subsequently enlisted the assistance of the Emeer of Kano to quell primacy mutiny.[7]
As General Officer Authoritative of the Nigerian Army's 1 Division during the Civil Battle, Shuwa opposed Murtala Mohammed's calamitous 2nd Division Onitsha river encroach upon (almost to the point whirl location both men exchanged blows).[8]
Upon Older Kaduna Nzeogwu's death (then unadulterated Biafran Lt.
Col) at elegant battle with Nigerian troops prize open Nsukka, it was then Identity card. Shuwa who informed Head incessantly State Major-General Yakubu Gowon get on with Nzeogwu's demise. Despite the fait accompli that Nzeogwu was technically solve enemy soldier killed in fight against the Nigerian Army, Gowon ordered that Nzeogwu's body joke flown to Kaduna and coffined with full military honours, plane as the war raged bias in the Eastern Region.[9]
From 1975 to 1979, Mohammed Shuwa served as In alliance Commissioner for Trade and Works.[10] He retired from the Nigerien Army on October 1, 1979, when the military administration rivalry General Olusegun Obasanjo handed power the reins of political rigorousness in Nigeria to the democratically elected government of President Shehu Shagari.[3]
Shuwa was murdered in coronet home in Maiduguri, in ad northerly Nigeria, on 2 November 2012 by suspected Boko Haram militants.[11]
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