Air Vice-Marshal (retired) Usman Mu'azu (1942–2008) was the military governor of

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from January 1984 to August 1985, during the military regime of General Muhammadu Buhari. Mu'azu was born in Kwoi, Jaba Local Government Area,

in 1942. He attended Provincial Secondary School,

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and then the Institute of Administration,

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. He attended the

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, and had further training in West Germany and the United States of America. Muazu served in various capacities in the Nigeria Air force, including service in the Nigeria Air force Command,

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and Command Training College, Kaduna. He was administrator of Nigerian Airways and Air Officer Commanding Training Command, Nigeria Air Force before being appointed military governor of Kaduna State in January 1984. After he had left office, violence broke out between the Atyap and

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people in

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in 1992 which eventually led to several hundred deaths. Muazu headed a committee with seven Atyap and seven Hausa to recommend methods of settling the disputes. One recommendation was to create the

Atyap Chiefdom Atyap Chiefdom is a Nigerian traditional state of the Atyap people, located on the upper Kaduna River basin of the central Nigeria plateau in the Middle Belt. Its headquarters is at A̠tak Njei, Zangon Kataf, southern Kaduna state, Nigeria. Peo ...

. Since there measures were implemented, there has been no further violence. Following the return to democracy in 1999, he became a prominent member of the

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, a Northern lobbying group. Mu'azu died in May 2008.

References

A great man he was, may Aljanna be his final abode, Amen Abba Hassan. Nigerian Air Force air marshals 1942 births 2008 deaths Governors of Kaduna State {{nigeria-mil-bio-stub