Victor Malu is dead
Lt. General Victor Malu, a former Nigerian Chief of Army Staff who served under President Olusegun Obasanjo, died at the age of 70 this morning.
Gen. Malu, according to a family source, Bem Adoor, died at a Cairo, Egypt hospital where he had traveled to for normal medical check-up two weeks ago.
The former ECOMOG Commander (Peace Keeping Force), from August 1996 to January 1998 was Chief of Army Staff during former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration May 1999 to April 2001.
As Chief of Army Staff in the early part of the century, Victor Malu oversaw the massacre of Odi community in Bayelsa State after an ambush of Nigerian troops by a local militia based in the community.
Born on January 15, 1947 at Katsina-Ala, Northern region, Malu enrolled at the Nigerian Defense Academy in Kaduna in 1967 as part of the 3rd Regular Course and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1970.
The former Army Chief chaired the Military Tribunal that tried the former Chief of General Staff, and Vice Chairman, Armed Forces Ruling Council, Gen. Oladipo Diya and others over the alleged failed coup plot against the then Head of State, Gen. Sanni Abacha.
