Alhaji Haruna Vatsa, the only surviving son of the late Maj,-Gen. Mamman Vatsa and the Director-General Protocol to Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger state, is dead.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Malam Jibrin Ndace, confirmed Haruna’s death in a statement released yesterday.
He said that Vatsa died on Tuesday afternoon in Kaduna, following a brief illness.
Haruna’s lone brother, Jibrin Mamman Jiya Vatsa, also died in September 2015 in the early hours of Sunday in Calabar, Cross River State, after a brief illness.
The state government particularly commiserated with Haruna Mamman Vatsa, the elder brother of the deceased.
The father of late Haruna, Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa, was a senior Nigerian Army officer and poet who was executed by the government of Major General Ibrahim Babangida on 5 March 1986 following a military tribunal death sentence for treason associated with an abortive coup.
He served as Minister of the Federal Capital Abuja, and was a member of the Supreme Military Council.
