1. Ishaya Bakut was Military Governor of Benue State in Nigeria from September 1986 to December 1987 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.
12 Facts About Ishaya Bakut
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Ishaya Bakut was Field Commander in Liberia of the ECOMOG West African multinational force from September 1991 to December 1992.
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Ishaya Bakut was born on 16 August 1947 in Kurmi-Bi, Zonkwa in Zangon Kataf LGA in Kaduna State.
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Ishaya Bakut attended Government College, Kaduna on a Shell BP Scholarship.
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Ishaya Bakut attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where he earned a BSc Engineering.
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Ishaya Bakut attended the United States School of Engineering, the Command and Staff College, Jaji and the National Defence College, New Delhi in 1985 where he obtained his MSc.
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Ishaya Bakut was a Company and Battalion Commander in the Infantry during the Nigerian Civil War.
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Ishaya Bakut was appointed Commander of 41 Engineers Brigade, Kaduna in 1976 and became a Senior Operations Officer, Operational Engineering.
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Ishaya Bakut served in the Nigerian contingent of the UNIFIL peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.
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Ishaya Bakut was appointed Field Commander in Liberia of the ECOMOG West African multinational force on 28 September 1991.
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Ishaya Bakut declared his intention that ECOMOG would be an impartial and non-political peacekeeping force.
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However, Charles Taylor ordered his troops to attack the Senegalese, whom Ishaya Bakut persuaded with difficulty to remain on the defensive.