Usman Faruk
Kwamishinan ’Yan sanda (mai ritaya) Alhaji Usman Faruk (an haife shi a shekara ta alif ɗari tara da talatin da uku 1932A.C) Miladiyya. shi ne Gwamnan Soja na farko a Jihar Arewa-maso-Yamma a Nijeriya daga shekara ta 1967 zuwa shekara ta 1975 bayan ya balle daga tsohuwar Jihar Arewa a lokacin mulkin soja na Janar Yakubu Gowon .  Janar Murtala Mohammed wanda ya karbi mulki a juyin mulki a ranar 29 ga Yulin shekara ta 1975 ne ya kore shi daga mukaminsa, sannan kuma ya ƙaddamar da binciken da ya same shi da laifin wadatar kansa ba bisa ka'ida ba lokacin da yake kan mulki.  Daga baya gwamnatin Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida ta mayar da shi bakin aiki bayan an wanke shi daga dukkan tuhume-tuhumen da ake masa, kuma an ba shi cikakken albashi da muƙamin ritaya. ya bar mulki jihar ta rabu zuwa jihar Neja da jihar Sokoto . 

Ya wallafa wata kasida a shekarar 1988 wanda ya kai hari kan shirin kayyade yawan jama’a na kasa da gwamnatin mulkin sojan Najeriya ke yadawa. A cikin ta ya ce "Babu wani musulmin kirki da zai yarda da duk wani umarni na mutum wanda ya saba wa dokokin Allah." Ya ce yaduwar magungunan rigakafin ciki da na'urorin zai haifar da " girgizar kasa na rashin ladabi."  Wannan ra'ayi, wanda aka saba da shi a Arewa, na iya taimakawa wajen yaduwar cutar kanjamau da cutar shan inna . 

Ya goyi bayan kafa hukumar sayar da kayayyaki don gyara ko sarrafa farashin kayan gona da dabbobi kamar shanu, awaki da tumaki. Haka kuma hukumar za ta adana kayan amfanin gona a lokutan bukata, sannan za ta kafa kamfanonin sarrafa kayayyakin da za su lalace kamar tumatur da sauran kayan lambu. 

A wata hira da manema labarai a shekara ta 2006, ya ce rashin albashi da kayan aikin ‘yan sanda ba za a iya tabbatar da shi ba, kuma shi ne ya haddasa tabarbarewar tsaro a ƙasar.  Usman Faruk ya samu lambar yabo ta kwamandan odar Niger (CON) daga gwamnatin Olusegun Obasanjo a watan Satumba 2006.  A watan Yulin shekara ta 2009, an kashe dansa na uku, Sufeto Abdulaziz Faruk, a lokacin tashin hankalin da kungiyar Boko Haram ta haddasa a Maiduguri.

Littafi Mai Tsarki 

 978-169-314-2  
 
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