By Olayemi Esan
The
Nigerian Army Officers Wives Association led by its president, Mrs.
Salamatu Faruku Yahaya, said they will construct a block of six
classrooms with two offices to help encourage the education of officers’
children at the Sokoto Giginya Barracks.
Mrs. Salamatu, who is the
wife of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya, made this
disclosure during a courtesy visit to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, at
the Sokoto State Government House.
While stressing that NAOWA is a
non-profit organization that has touched so many lives positively in the
barracks, Mrs. Salamtu Yahaya thanked Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal
for building blocks of classrooms at the Army school in Giginya
barracks.
The NAOWA President, further disclosed that it was a
homecoming for her, hence she once lectured at Shehu Shagari College of
Education, Sokoto, and gave birth to three of her children in Sokoto as
well.
Reacting, Sokoto State governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, said
they were happy to receive the wife of the COAS and her entourage who
coincidentally happened to be August visitors in the month of August.
"All
of us are welcoming you home. We all celebrated the appointment of the
COAS staff by President Muhammadu Buhari, not because he is our own but
because Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya equally merited it,” Tambuwal said.
Disclosing
how they in Sokoto received the news of the appointment of COAS with
satisfaction, Tambuwal said, "We went into prayers for him to succeed,
knowing the security challenges we are faced with. We pray for him to
liberate all of us from the forces that this great country is faced
with.
"We can see successes being recorded already through the
surrender of members of the Boko Haram terrorist group in the North
East.
"We have supported NOWA before and we will continue to do so. I
will appeal to all governors of Nigeria to support your tenure for
effective service delivery," Tambuwal assured.