It was an unprecedented occasion yesterday at the military officers mess at Wilberforce when Major I Ahmad was decorated with a promotional rank of Lt Colonel, a position he was awarded back home in Nigeria in January 2021
The decoration ceremony was done by Brig Gen CF Marah of the RSLAF and Eng Abiodun Oyebola, President of the Nigerian community in SL
Senior members of the Nigerian High Commission were in attendance and beaming with smiles for a well deserved promotion
Lt Col Ahmad is a senior tutor at Horton Military Training Academy at IMATT, in Freetown, where he distinguished himself as a proficient and sound military officer who is well respected by the RSLAF and the Sierra Leonean community
Yesterday’s ceremony was the climax of the warm relations between the two countries and a health relations between Nigerian Armed Forces NAF and Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces RSLAF