Major Akinloye Akinyemi: A Man of Courage and Transparency

MAJOR AKINLOYE AKINYEMI (1954 - 2012): A MAN OF COURAGE AND TRANSPARENCY

All through my over forty years of keeping in contact with Akin, he was always truthful, dutiful and compassionate. My first encounter with him was towards the end of the 1960s. This was during a military training bush camp in Igbo Ora.

Then a slightly built teenager, Akin had attended the camp from Government College, Ibadan (GCI) where he was a secondary school army cadet.

The happenstance of Akinloye and I first meeting must have come about because of a bridge builder who then connected NMS to GCI. The link was the NMS Commandant / Principal, Major General T. B. Ogundeko, an alumnus of GCI.

Akinloye Akinyemi (1635, Swanston) attended Government College Ibadan between 1966 and 1972.

Colonel Tony Nyiam, Sep 25, 2012.

Source: The Nigerian Nostalgia Project: Government College Ibadan.