Retired Major General David Jemibewon, a former military governor of Oyo State and ex-Minister of Police Affairs, discusses his childhood, profession, ideals, interests, war experience and others with SIMON UTEBOR Having risen to become a Major General in the Nigerian Army, how would you describe your childhood? I was born on July 20, 1940 in a place called Iyah-Gbedde in the Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State. My parents had five children. I am the first child, followed by a set of twins – a boy and a girl. The boy died and the girl survived. The boy’s immediate brother, Idowu, died two years ago. The last child of my mother, who is a woman, is alive. Only two of us are left. Recently, I became an orphan. My father died some years ago while my mother died in 2016. I grew up as a young child in the village. Sometime during my childhood, my father sent me to his younger brother – my uncle, who was then working with United Africa Company in Burutu (in present Delta S...
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