Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa

**Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa** (14 Agusta, shekara ta alif ɗari tara da arba'in da shida 1946 – 16 Maris 2000) ya kasance hafsan hafsoshin sojan saman Najeriya. Ya taɓa riƙe muƙamin shugaban sojoji na jihar Kaduna da kuma shugaban hafsan sojin sama na rundunar sojojin saman Najeriya. Ya mutu ranar 16 ga Maris, 2000. 

## Rayuwar farko
An haife shi a garin Garkida da ke jihar Adamawa, ya fara karatunsa ne a Central Primary School Jimeta, Yola a shekarar 1948, ya kuma kammala karatunsa na firamare da sakandare a shekarar 1960 a makarantar Midil ta Yola wadda daga baya aka fi sani da Provincial Secondary School. Jim kaɗan bayan kammala karatunsa, ya shiga kwas ɗinsa na Higher School Certificate (HSC) a Kwalejin Barewa, Zariya, wanda ya kammala a shekarar 1962.

## Aikin soja
Ibrahim Alfa yana ɗaya daga cikin jiga-jigan jami'an da suka shiga aikin sojan saman Najeriya a watan Yunin 1963. A ranar 28 ga watan Agustan 1963, an ɗauke shi, tare da tawagar wasu 'yan Najeriya 83, zuwa birnin Uetersen na ƙasar Jamus, domin samun horo na asali da ci gaba. Ya kasance a Jamus har zuwa ranar 21 ga watan Yunin 1966, lokacin da aka dawo da shi gida tare da tawagar kuma aka ba shi aikin sojan saman Najeriya da muƙamin Laftanar na biyu. A lokacin da yaƙin basasa ya ɓarke, ya jagoranci rundunar sojojin NAF a garin Benin.

A shekarar 1967, Alfa ya halarci Course Conversion akan MIG 15 da 17 a cikin USSR. An ƙara masa girma zuwa muƙamin kaftin a shekarar 1969. A shekarar 1970 aka naɗa shi kwamandan rundunar sojojin saman Najeriya (NAF) Flying Training Wing, Kano.

A 1972 ya samu muƙamin Major. Daga Disamba 1972 zuwa Agusta 1973, Ibrahim Alfa ya yi rajista don kwas na T-38 Instructor Pilot a Lockheed da Randolph Air Force Base, a Amurka. A 1973 aka naɗa shi hafsan kwamandan 64 Fighter Squadron, Kano, Nigeria. 

A cikin Nuwamba 1974 ya halarci wani kwas na juyi a kan MiG 21 sannan ya sake duba kujerar baya a USSR. A shekarar 1975 ya samu muƙamin Wing Commander. An naɗa shi memba na Majalisar Ƙoli ta Sojoji tsakanin 1976-78 a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin matasanta da ke da matsayi na Wing Commander. A wannan lokacin, ya halarci Advanced Staff College, l, Ingila. A shekarar 1978 Alfa ya samu matsayi na Group-Captain, sannan kuma shugaban ƙasa na wancan lokacin, Janar Olusegun Obasanjo ya naɗa shi a matsayin shugaban mulkin soja na jihar Kaduna, inda ya kuma riƙe muƙamin kwamandan ƙungiyar horar da ƙasa a Kaduna. 

A watan Yunin 1980, ya shiga Kwalejin Yaƙin Sama da ke Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Amurka. Bayan dawowarsa daga Kwalejin Yaƙin Sojan Sama a 1981, Ibrahim Alfa an naɗa shi a matsayin Air Officer Operations (AOO), tare da muƙamin Air Commodore. A shekarar 1982, ya halarci horon kula da harkokin tsaro na ƙasa da ƙasa da ke Legas, Najeriya. A 1983 Alfa ya samu muƙamin Air Vice Marshal.

A ranar 1 ga watan Janairun 1984 ne gwamnatin Janar Muhammadu Buhari ta naɗa shi a matsayin hafsan sojin sama na takwas. Bayan da Janar Ibrahim Babangida ya karɓi mulki a watan Agustan 1985, ya riƙe Alfa a matsayin babban hafsan sojin sama. A ranar 1 ga Oktoban 1987, Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa ya samu muƙamin Air Marshal, jami'in sojan saman Najeriya na farko da ya taɓa samun wannan matsayi.

## Aje Aiki
Alfa ya yi ritaya daga aikin sojan saman Najeriya a matsayin hafsan hafsoshin sojojin sama a shekarar 1990.

Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa ya kuma taɓa zama memba a majalisar ƙoli ta soja daga 1984-85, da hukumar sojin ƙasa (AFRC) 1985-90 da kuma shugaban kwamitin miƙa mulki na ƙasa a shekarar 1990. 

## Shugaban Soja na Jihar Kaduna
A watan Yulin 1978, an naɗa Alfa a matsayin shugaban mulkin soja na jihar Kaduna, muƙamin da ya riƙe har zuwa Oktoba 1979.

## Babban Hafsan Sojan Sama, Sojojin Saman Najeriya
An naɗa Alfa a matsayin babban hafsan hafsoshin sojojin saman Najeriya na takwas a ƙarƙashin mulkin Janar Muhammadu Buhari a ranar 1 ga Janairun 1984. An ci gaba da riƙe shi a matsayin hafsan hafsan sojin sama a lokacin gwamnatin Janar Ibrahim Babangida har zuwa shekarar 1990.

## Rayuwa ta sirri
Ibrahim Alfa yayi aure da Laraba, sun haifi 'ya'ya uku maza daya tare. 

## Kyauta
Air Marshal Alfa (Rtd) ya samu kyaututtuka da dama. A cikin jerin haruffa sun haɗa da:

* Defence service Medal (DSM)
* Distinguished Flying Star (DFS)
* Distinguished flying Star (DSM)
* General service Medal (GSM)
* Member of the federal republic (MFR)
* National service medal (NSM)
* Republic medal (RM)

## Manazarta