Alhaji Haruna Mamman Jiya Vatsa, the Director General Protocol to Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, is dead. He was aged 49 years old.

Jibrin Baba Ndace, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Sani Bello, disclosed in a statement issued this evening in Minna that Haruna Vatsa died Tuesday afternoon in Kaduna after a brief illness.

“He will be buried by 10am on Wednesday, 5th July at Waterworks (Safa Farm), Malali, Kaduna,” the statement said.

Vatsa, who was the first son of late Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa, is survived by a wife, four children and a sister.