Biography of usman jibrink

A Tribute to the Late Group Captain Usman Jibrin (1942-2011)

By

Aliyu A. Ammani

aaammani@yahoo.co.uk

For the past 3 years, my pen remained idle inspite of series of topical events affecting our body politic: late President Yar’adua’s final illness and the controversy that trailed it, Jonathan acting presidency, Yar’adua’s death, Jonathan’s inherited Presidency, Bombings at the 50^th Independence Anniversary and its aftermath, more crises on the Plateau, the brouhaha about the PDP’s Zoning mis-arrangement, the 2011 General elections, Post-presidential election violence, Boko Haram’s Suicide terrorism et cetera. In fact some of my good friends even suggested that my pen has dried up! However, when the news of the death of Group Captain Usman Jibrin hits me “like a summer breeze on a winter’s night” on Thursday the 8^th day of September 2011, I couldn’t resist the urge to commit pen to paper to mourn and celebrate the life and time of such a remarkably rare personality.

Lt. Co