Major General Trust Mugoba the former Zimbabwe National Army Chief of Staff has passed away a few hours after the demise of former President Robert Mugabe.

The former Army Chief of Staff died at a private hospital in Harare, a week after he was placed on admission for coming down with an undisclosed illness. Nick Mangwana, the government spokesman, said, “He passed away early this morning.”

Mugoba left his post in March 2017 after he assumed the position of the Chief of Staff of the Stand-by Force of the African Union. It was only months after Mugoba’s departure that the military in Zimbabwe made a move against Robert Mugabe as they overthrew his government via a coup in November 2017.

Mugoba passed away on the same day as Mugabe who died in a Singapore hospital where he had been on admission since April. According to a family friend, Mugoba’s health broke down in August, which forced him to return to Zimbabwe from the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia.