Reps Call For Posthumous Promotions For Lt. Col. Abu Ali, 6 Others

The House in the motion sponsored by Abdussamad Dasuki who represents Kebbe/Tambunwal Federal Constituency of Sokoto State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, urged the Federal Government to offer the spouses of the killed officers automatic employment and their children educational scholarship to the highest level. It also called on the President and Commander-in-Chief to award Lt. Col. Abu-Ali and the other six national honours in recognition of their uncommon bravery and service in protecting the country’s territorial integrity, for which they had paid the ultimate price. The Green Chamber further urged the Federal Government to immortalise Lt. Colonel Abu-Ali by naming a befitting national monument or institution in his honour, as well as accelerate the disbursement of all benefits accruable to the families of the fallen heroes and mandate the Committee on Defence to ensure compliance with the resolution. Besides, the House resolved that its Committees on Army and Defence should visit the families of the dead soldiers and that the Committee’s on Army, Airforce and Defence should ensure that officers were not allowed to staff for too long at a place.

Rep. Dasuki in the motion stated that, “Nigerians are now United in grief in recognition of the heroic feats of the casualties, among them Lt. Colonel Muhammad Abu-Ali. “Since his death, Lt. Colonel Abu Ali has been a subject of never-ending inspirational stories in the media and private interactions as Nigerians fondly remembered his role in the liberations of towns once captured by the insurgents. “The death of Lt. Colonel Ali and six other soldiers is an unfortunate incident capable of demoralising other troops and arming their killers with a strong tool of derisory propaganda.”