By Ade Martins-
The Director of Finance of the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC) was killed by a drunk soldier, The Eye Of Media.Com has learnt.
A drunk corporal, Abayomi Ebun, hit him with a car, according to sources from the Nigerian PREMIUMTIMES.
“The general was trekking to his apartment inside the Barracks when he was hit and knocked down by the drunk soldier,” one of our sources said. “The soldier also resides inside the barracks and was seen driving recklessly before hitting the senior officer.”
The soldiers should not have been driving drunk, but highly ranked soldiers in most parts of the world, especially Nigeria, do what they like once in that level of power.
Brigadier General James was a senior member of the Nigerian Army Finance Corps with had bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Accounting as well as a Master of Business Administration in Finance.
He served in the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre where Brigadier General James.
Following the end of World War II, the British Colonial Government under the auspices of the West African Frontier Force, (WAFF) established 2 Vocational Resettlement Centres in Nigeria and Ghana. The Centres were charged with the responsibility of imparting skills relevant to the resettlement needs of the colonial West African Ex-Servicemen.
The Nigerian Civil War also required the speedy recruitment of able-bodied Nigerians into the other rank cadre of the Armed Forces, mainly the Nigerian Army, irrespective of academic qualification. Subsequently the school was later renamed Armed Forces Resettlement Centre aimed at giving vocational skills to retirees