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<\/p>\nLate Ochayi, a native of Idoma in Benue state, had died in an air beetle in Kaduna, August 2017, while waiting for his Air Commodore promotion.<\/p>\n
Since his burial September 6, 2017, neither the NAF nor the military authority had been able to come clear on the remote cause of his death.<\/p>\n
In a similar vein, the NAF has not issued official statement on the real cause of death of the Idoma-born Air Commodore Udenyi, who is said to be awaiting his Air Vice Marshall promotion, any moment from now.<\/p>\n
\u201cAir Commodore Udenyi died in Lagos yesterday, May 4, 2019, but the cause of death is yet unknown, there was no plane crash neither was he ill\u201d, a source close to the family hinted our reporter.<\/p>\n
Since the news was broken to the family in Benue, Sunday morning, the family house located at Banner of Grace street, off David Mark bye-pass, High level, Makurdi, had been a beehive of mourners and sympathisers.<\/p>\n
Attempts by our reporter to speak with the parents of the deceased proved abortive as their uncontrollable cries could not allow them grant any meaningful audience.<\/p>\n
The wife and children of late Udenyi were still in Lagos, where they had lived with their bread winner.<\/p>\n
Air Commodore Udenyi, until his death, was the Commander of 301 Heavy Airlift Group, Logistics Command, Ikeja Lagos.<\/p>\n
He was the number one pilot of NAF C-130, the biggest cargo aircraft in the Nigeria\u2019s military inventory of airplane.<\/p>\n
Udenyi was promoted to the rank of Air Commodore in 2015, alongside other fine officers.<\/p>\n
In 2016, he was sent to Washington DC, as Nigeria\u2019s Defence Attach\u00e9.<\/p>\n
A native of Agila, Ado local government of Benue state, Air Commodore Udenyi is survived by wife, children and parents.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Barely two years after a Pilot Instructor with the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Group Captain Adanu Gabriel Ochayi was buried, another best Pilot with the Nigerian military, Air Commodore Emmanuel Udenyi is dead. Late Ochayi, a native of Idoma in Benue state, had died in an air beetle in Kaduna, August 2017, while waiting for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}