Former Benue Governor, Ishaya Bakut dies at 67
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- Mar 22, 2015
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General Ishaya Bakut
A former Military Governor of Benue State, General Ishaya Bakut (retd) is dead.
He died at the age of 67, after a brief illness.
The former military governor passed on at an undisclosed hospital.
Bakut who hails from Kurmin Bi, Zonkwa, in Zangon Kataf local government was born on 16 August, 1947.
He was appointed Field Commander of ECOMOG during Liberia’s civil war by General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s regime and also Principal Officer to Chief of General Staff during the military government of the late General Sani Abacha.
He attended Government College, Kaduna (1961–1965) on a Shell BP Scholarship. In 1966, he went to the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, and graduated on March 1969. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant.
Bakut attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1971–1975) where he earned a B.Sc Engineering.
He also attended the United States School of Engineering (1977–1978), the Command and Staff College, Jaji (1979–1980) and the Indian National Defence College, New Delhi in 1985 where he obtained his M.Sc.
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