The good soldier was also spending his time to teach little children in
the Boko Haram ravaged areas. Read his touching story as shared by The
New Tribes of Nigeria below:
We're glad to open the stories of stories on this page with the Story of
Platoon Sergeant, Cheer Agba. Serving in the armed forces of Nigeria,
he was posted to the volatile north eastern part of Nigeria to face the
Boko Haram insurgency.
Sergeant Agba served with heroism, and with heart. Leaving behind a wife
and four kids, including a 2 week old baby, for over 4 years, he
bravely served to recover the territories taken by the insurgents and to
return normalcy to that part of Nigeria.
What was more however is that Sergeant Agba dedicated his spare time to
educating the children in this volatile zones in an improvised open air
classroom, with sand-Crete blocks as chairs and a flattened cardboard
nailed to a tree as a blackboard.
In his own words: “I am thrilled at the pace of their improvement
and can bet with the trigger of my weapon, if I am still here and the
bullet does not take me, they'll be reading news papers in no distant
time."
We are grateful for the service of Officer Agba and it is our pleasure
to highlight him as our first icon of nationalism on this page, a proud
Tiv man, and a detribalized Nigerian.
Thank you for your service. May his soul rest in peace. Amen!
