The Malian Army Chief of Staff, Abdrahamane Baby, sought the cooperation when he visited the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, in Abuja.
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“The insurgents are now in disarray, attacking soft and defenceless targets, and withdrawing to safer havens in other parts of the country,” he said at the opening of a five-day workshop for the officers in Kaduna
A statement issued on Saturday by Colonel Kingsley Umoh, the spokesman of 1 Division, Nigeria Army, Kaduna,
Buratai made the remark on Saturday in Okene during the inauguration of a Forward Operation Base for the Nigerian Army.
In a publicized interview on July 3, 2017, Buratai, who featured on the BBC HARDtalk programme, anchored by Stephen Sackur, spoke on a range of issues, including the state of the counter-insurgency campaigns in Nigeria and particularly in the North East. The COAS, who has spent the last few years of his career fighting Boko Haram terrorism, first as Field Commander
The centre noted that recent feat was a clear indication that the military has truly won the battle of the insurgency in north eastern part of the country.
Buratai disclosed this during a Photo/Arts Exhibition, which was part of activities to mark the week-long Nigerian Army Day Celebration.
The seminar, with the theme: “Dynamics of National Security, The Role of The Citizens,” was held at the 81 Division Officers’
I therefore call on all officers and soldiers to buckle up and ensure that remnants of Boko Haram terrorists are completely cleared
According to him, the increasing operational activities in the fight against insurgency and terrorism in the North east, had necessitated the establishment of the Forward Operation Base in Buratai
“They must be up to date, not necessarily getting the basic military training only; they must be up to date in terms of current affairs and in terms of global trend
The statement explained that such allegation only goes to show that the crisis entrepreneurs that are being affected by the successes of the military are desperate to again return the nation to a time when jobbers covertly supported the Boko Haram insurgency in order to increase security spending and have more money to steal from
Usman said Buratai specifically thanked the Inspector General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team and the Kaduna State Command Special Investigation Bureau operatives for their dedication to duty and professionalism, which led to the arrest of the criminals that abducted and killed the late senior officer in Kaduna metropolis, Kaduna State on March 27 this year
But the group said the Army Chief lied because it was not its members that killed the soldiers but their inexperience in the terrain where they had come to operate
“It is a training exercise and it is also a real operation as we hope to clear any hideout of criminal gangs that are known to be operating in the fringes of the forest
The National President of the Group, Lady Nkechi Odoma, who spoke with reporters in Abuja while responding to a write-up by the self-styled author calling for the sack of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Yusuf Buratai, over the alleged assassination attempt on the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, and his family members, Odoma called on Brimah to immediately stop his rabid attacks or risk being disgraced
He, however, noted that the troops were cooperating with other security agencies to restore peace and order in the area.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Army chief met with operation commanders on measures adopted to contain the crisis in the area.
Until his appointment July 13, 2015, by President Muhammedu Buhari, as Nigeria’s COAS, Gen. Buratai was the Commander of the Multinational Joint Task Force, headquartered in the Republic of Chad. He succeeded Gen. Kenneth Tobias Jacob Minimah as COAS, whose reign diminished the once proud army which regaled in excellence on foreign assignments, anywhere in the world. Under Minimah, Nigerian soldiers were re-classified and derogatively described as worse than ragtag militias, evident in troop’s sheepish retreat in the middle of battle
He said the commissioned equipment were the first mine clearing machines in the inventory of the Nigerian Army and among the best in the world
It said: “We are aware that certain elements in the Military are very uncomfortable with Buratai since his call for declaration of assets, but let it be known that as a civil society we are in total support of this move. The army needs to be sanitised, too much sleaze has infiltrated in the last eight years and it needs to be brought up to task.”