Three days after President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari was buried in Abuja, one of the President’s bodyguard, Warrant Officer Lawal Mato has passed away. He was said to lost a three year battle with diabetes.

Mourning the death of officer, the President described Mato, who had been working with him for many years before he won the 2015 elections, as “a very thorough, trustworthy and dependable soldier who carried out his duty with diligence and focus.’’

President Buhari, in a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, prayed that Allah will ease his passage to paradise and grant his family, government and people of Jigawa State, the fortitude to bear the loss.

W/O Mato was part of a team that former President Umaru Musa Yar’adua restored to President Buhari as personal security and he had been off full duty for three years, treating diabetes.