Brigadier General Femi David Lasisi Bamigboye (retd.), first Military Governor of Kwara State is dead. He died in Lagos after a brief illness at the age of 78.

For those who don’t know, the late General David Bamigboye was born on December 7, 1940. He was the first Military Governor of Kwara State from May 1967 to July 1975, after it had been split from the old Northern Region during the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon.

He is an Igbomina man. In 1968 he created the Kwara State Ministry of Education, with a department to handle Scholarship/Bursary matters. In 1971 he announced a decision to establish the Kwara State Polytechnic, which came into existence in 1972.

In December 1972 he opened the new premises of Ola-Olu Hospital with accommodation for thirty-five beds.