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General Buratai now an orphan, buries mum today
Lt. General Tukur Buratai, Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, is now an orphan.
After losing his father in 2018, Buratai has also lost his mother.
The mom, Kakah Hajja died on Tuesday in Maiduguri.
She will be buried this morning in the city.
Buratai lost his father, Alhaji Yusuf Buratai, on 9 February 2018.
The senior Buratai was an ex-serviceman.
He took part in the World War II, by joining the West African Army in 1942