Salaudeen Latinwo

**Salaudeen Adebola Latinwo**// i (12 ga Yulin 1943   zuwa 12 ga Agusta 2023) ya kasance kyaftin din rukuni a cikin Sojojin Sama na Najeriya kuma gwamnan soja na Jihar Kwara, Najeriya, a karkashin gwamnatin soja ta Muhammadu Buhari.

Latinwo na daga cikin manyan jami'an da aka dauka a cikin Sojojin Sama na Najeriya (NAF) a 1963,  a karkashin shugaban farko na ma'aikatan jirgin sama na Sojojin Jirgin Sama na Najeriya, Colonel Gerhard Kahtz, wanda ke kan aiki a matsayin shugaban kungiyar Taimako ta Sojojin Sojan Sama ta Jamus (GAFAG). An kafa rundunar sojan sama ta Najeriya a hukumance a ranar 18 ga Afrilu 1964 a karkashin Dokar Sojan Sama ta 1964.

Latinwo na ɗaya daga cikin shugabannin daidaito na Najeriya.

## Ayyukan soja
Daga 28 ga Agusta 1963 zuwa 21 ga Yuni 1966, Latinwo ya halarci horo na soja na asali da ci gaba a Uetersen, Jamus ta Yamma, inda ya horar da shi a matsayin jami'in Sojan Sama. A Yammacin Jamus, Latinwo ya halarci horo don fuka-fukansa masu tashi kuma ya halarci Kwalejin Kewayawa, Yammacin Jamusanci, don takardar shaidarsa a cikin kewayawar iska, wanda ya kammala a 1966. An ba shi izini a matsayin mataimakin na biyu a shekarar 1966 lokacin da ya iso daga Jamus ta Yamma zuwa Najeriya. Latinwo ya kasance mataimakin kwamandan rundunar sojan sama ta Kaduna daga 1966-1968, kuma mataimakin kwamanda, sansanin sojan sama na Najeriya (tushen NAF) Kano, Najeriya 1970-1971, kuma mataimakan kwamanda, NAF Base, Benin City (1971-1972). 

A shekara ta 1972, Latinwo ya halarci horo na watanni shida a kan jirgin yaki na Ilyushin Il-28 a Alkahira, Misira, kuma ya halarci karatun gudanar da jirgin sama na Fokker F-27 a Amsterdam. An ɗaukaka shi zuwa matsayin kyaftin a shekarar 1972.

An nada Latinwo a matsayin darektan horo a hedkwatar Sojojin Sama na Najeriya (NAF) tsakanin 1972 da 1974. Latinwo ya ci gaba zuwa Kwalejin Junior Command da Staff a Ƙasar Ingila a 1974 don ƙarin horo na soja. A shekara ta 1975, Latinwo ya sami horo na ƙididdigar nau'in a kan C-130 Hercules Transport Aircraft a Atlanta, Jojiya. 

An nada Latinwo a matsayin darektan ayyukan a hedkwatar rundunar sojin saman Najeriya tsakanin 1975 da 1977. A shekara ta 1976, Latinwo ya halarci Kwalejin Kwamandan da Ma'aikata, Jaji, Najeriya. Daga 1977-1978, an nada shi kwamandan sansanin a sansanin Sojojin Sama na Najeriya (sansanin NAF) Makurdi, Najeriya.

Daga 1978 zuwa 1979, an nada Latinwo a matsayin kwamandan sansanin a sansanin Sojojin Sama na Najeriya (sansanin NAF) Kaduna . An ɗaukaka shi zuwa matsayin Kwamandan reshe a shekarar 1979.

A shekara ta 1980, an nada shi babban jami'in ma'aikata na Air Operations (Defence Headquarters) Jihar Legas, Najeriya.

A cikin 1981, an inganta Latinwo zuwa matsayin Kyaftin din rukuni. A shekara ta 1984, Babban Ma'aikacin Jirgin Sama, Mataimakin Marshal Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa ne ya zabi Kyaftin Salaudeen Adebola Latinwo, kuma Manjo-Janar Muhammadu Buhari ne ya nada shi, shugaban jihar a matsayin sabon Gwamnan Soja na Jihar Kwara, matsayin da ya rike har zuwa watan Agusta 1985.

Lokacin da Manjo Janar Ibrahim Babangida ya hau mulki a shekarar 1985 a matsayin shugaban soja na Najeriya, an nada Latinwo a matsayin sabon kwamandan (darakta) na Darakta na Gudanarwa a hedkwatar Sojojin Sama na Najeriya, Legas, Najeriya, har sai da ya yi ritaya daga Sojojin Jirgin Sama na Najeriya a watan Maris na shekara ta 1986. 

## Gwamnan Jihar Kwara
A watan Janairun shekara ta 1984, shugaban kasa Najeriya, Manjo-Janar Muhammadu Buhari, ya nada Kyaftin S.A. Latinwo a matsayin gwamnan jihar Kwara don aiwatar da sauye-sauyen tattalin arziki, siyasa, da zamantakewa a jihar.

A lokacin ziyarar hukuma ta Manjo-Janar Buhari zuwa Jihar Kwara daga 9 ga Afrilu - 12 ga Afrilu 1985, a matsayin shugaban Gwamnatin Sojojin Tarayya, Buhari ya ce "Ina so in ce Gwamnatin Jiha a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Gwamnan Sojojin Jihar Kwar, Kungiyar Kyaftin Salaudeen Adebola Latinwo ya yi abubuwa da yawa don inganta yawan jama'a a duk fadin Jihar Kwag. Ayyukansa sun sanya horo da kara amincewar mutane a cikin Gwamnatinsa".

## Nadin mukamai na siyasa
A cikin 1999, Latinwo da sauran jami'an soja da suka yi ritaya sun zama masu iko a Najeriya. A shekara ta 2001, lokacin da Shugaba Olusegun Obasanjo ya amince da abun da ke cikin allon Gwamnatin Tarayya, an kira Latinwo a matsayin memba na kwamitin Hukumar Kula da Filin Jiragen Sama ta Tarayya (FAAN). 

A shekara ta 2008, Shugaba Umaru Yar'Adua ya nada Latinwo a matsayin shugaban jihar Kwara na kwamitin kasa kan albarkatun ma'adinai da bin muhalli.

## Rayuwa ta sirri da ta farko
An haifi Salaudeen Adebola Latinwo a shekara ta 1943 a cikin sanannen dangin Aliu Onaolapo Olatinwo a Offa, Jihar Kwara, Najeriya. Latinwo na ɗaya daga cikin yara 43 na matan 10 na mahaifinsa Aliu Olatinwo . 

Latinwo ya halarci makarantar firamare ta St. Marks daga 1950 zuwa 1956 a Offa, Jihar Kwara, Najeriya. Ya kuma halarci Offa Grammar School daga 1957 zuwa 1961, inda ya sami takardar shaidar makarantar Afirka ta Yamma. 

A shekara ta 1961, Latinwo ya shiga aikin gwamnati na Arewacin Najeriya, kuma ya yi aiki a Ma'aikatar Ilimi ta Arewacin Najeriya har zuwa 1963. Ya tafi Cibiyar Gudanarwa ta Kasa a Ƙasar Ingila a 1962 don karatun jami'an zartarwa, kuma ya tashi zuwa matsayin mataimakin babban jami'in zartarwa a Ma'aikatar Ilimi ta Arewacin Najeriya a lokacin.

A cikin 1963, Sardauna na Sokoto da Firayim Minista na Arewacin Najeriya, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, sun zaɓi Latinwo da sauran matasa daga Najeriya don horar da su a Jamus ta Yamma, don su zama cibiyar Sojojin Sama na Najeriya.  An dauki Latinwo a cikin Sojojin Sama na Najeriya a 1963 don wakiltar arewacin kasar.

A shekara ta 1971, Latinwo ya auri Mercy Aganga, tare da ita yana da 'ya'ya hudu.

Latinwo ya kasance surukin tsohon Ministan Kudi na Najeriya kuma tsohon Ministan Masana'antu, Ciniki da Zuba Jari Olusegun Aganga . Salaudeen Latinwo ya mutu a London, Ingila, a ranar 12 ga watan Agusta 2023, yana da shekaru 80.

## Kyaututtuka
Kungiyar Kyaftin SA Latinwo (rtd) ta sami kyaututtuka da yawa kuma an yi mata ado da lambobin soja da yawa,  gami da:

* Medal na Tsaro (DSM) 
* Tauraron Sabis na Soja (FSS) 
* Medal na Babban Sabis (GSM) 
* Medal na Sabis na Kasa (NSM) 
* Gwamnan Jihar Kwara, Abdulfatah Ahmed ne ya ba Latinwo lambar yabo ta Jagora mai ban mamaki a ranar 27 ga Mayu 2017.
* Medal na Jamhuriyar (RM) 

## Manazarta