Salaudeen Latinwo

Salaudeen Latinwowas a group captain in the Nigerian Air Force and a military governor of Kwara State, Nigeria, under Muhammadu Buhari's military government. Quotes "I attended the Offa Grammar School, a community school but with a little bit of support from the state government. That school is a very prominent secondary school in the northern part of the country then and now. Key people like generals Akinrinade and Jemibewon attended that school. You would be developed by the intensity of the syllabus, and when you look around, you would see the quality of the products of the school". https://reminiscences-with-group-captain-salaudeen-latinwo-rtd/ "Despite the fact that I was from a privileged family, there was discipline in the home. Even when I got into the secondary school, despite the fact that Offa Grammar School was in my town and my father was an influential fellow, I was staying in the boarding house under strict discipline. I wasn’t allowed free rein to be relating with people outside. There even just wasn’t the time to do so. I remember that most of my friends I met in the boarding house came from Abeokuta, Ilesha and Lagos". https://reminiscences-with-group-captain-salaudeen-latinwo-rtd/ "They gathered those they deemed fit as worthy of representing the North well and said, “Look, you guys will be representing us.” Despite that, we still had to go through the Aptitude Test, the Medical Test, the physical rigour and all of that before we were finally picked". https://reminiscences-with-group-captain-salaudeen-latinwo-rtd/ "Ahmadu Bello gave us lots of confidence, saying, “Look, you are my children. I want you to do this thing and you can’t say no. I know what is best for you, so go ahead and do it.” https://reminiscences-with-group-captain-salaudeen-latinwo-rtd/ “You are dismissed. Do you have any question?” Some of us were just looking at him without saying anything. That was the final official notice". https://reminiscences-with-group-captain-salaudeen-latinwo-rtd/ "From then on, I was just doing bits here and there; nothing really stable. You know, you get to a stage where you have to retire yourself. After running around looking for assistance here and there, you get to a stage where you can’t run around again. You sit down in the house, read books or go and play tennis, if you can. I am about 78 years now". https://reminiscences-with-group-captain-salaudeen-latinwo-rtd/ External links Category : Military Category : Dead people Category :1943 births