Serving in the armed forces
of Nigeria, he was posted to the volatile north eastern part of Nigeria to face
the Boko Haram insurgency. Rest in
peace!
The good soldier was also
spending his time to teach little children in the Boko Haram ravaged areas.
Read his touching story as shared by The New Tribes of Nigeria below:
We're glad to open the
stories of stories on this page with the Story of Platoon Sergeant, Cheer Agba.
Sergeant Agba served with
heroism, and with heart. Leaving behind a wife and four kids, including a 2
week old baby, for over 4 years, he bravely served to recover the territories
taken by the insurgents and to return normalcy to that part of Nigeria.
What was more however is
that Sergeant Agba dedicated his spare time to educating the children in this
volatile zones in an improvised open air classroom, with sand-Crete blocks as
chairs and a flattened cardboard nailed to a tree as a blackboard.
In his own words: “I am
thrilled at the pace of their improvement and can bet with the trigger of my
weapon, if I am still here and the bullet does not take me, they'll be reading
newspapers in no distant time."
We are grateful for the
service of Officer Agba and it is our pleasure to highlight him as our first
icon of nationalism on this page, a proud Tiv man, and a detribalized Nigerian.
Sad rest in peace
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