The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, represented by the General Officer, 3 Division, Nigerian Army, Maj.- Gen. Benjamin Ahanotu, inaugurated the project on Wednesday in Fika Local Government Area.
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He stated this at a Military-Media Awareness Programme organised by CLEEN Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organization, at Jabi Motor Park, Abuja.
Buratai made the call at the inauguration of nine gunboats for the Amphibious Task Force Detachment at Baga, for patrol and clearing the remaining Boko Haram terrorists from the Lake Chad waterways.
“This is a new strategy to keep our outer spaces safe. We also need the military presence in Ikorodu and Badagry,” Ambode said in a remark as the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, operationalise the FOB.
At a press conference in Ikoyi, Lagos on Tuesday, JDAN National President, Chief Bako Benjamin, said the panel’s report falls far short of expectations and can at best be described as a shoddy job fit for the waste bin.
Speaking to State House correspondents after the closed door meeting, Burutai said he was duty bound to regularly brief the president on the activities of the Nigerian army.
Brig.-Gen. Bello Abdullahi, the Commander, 23 Brigade, Yola, who inaugurated and handed over the projects to the community on Tuesday in Yola, said they were part of the civil-military cooperation being encouraged Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai.
Concerned with the incessant kidnapping and killing, the National Union of Road Transport Workers in the area cautioned its members from plying the route pending deployment of troops and other security agents.
Buratai gave the assurance during the flag-off the 2 Battalion Forward Operation Base at the troubled Birnin-Gwari area of Kaduna State.
He said: “We are still battling with security challenges in the country. But we must ensure synergy with other security agencies to achieve the desired objective.
The Emir, who disclosed this on Sunday when he received the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, in his Palace, said steps had been taken to plug the loopholes.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Buratai made the announcement on Wednesday, while interacting with members of the community shortly after he visited troops stationed in the area to ward off herdsmen attacks.
Buratai said this on Tuesday when the Conservator-General of National Park Service, Ibrahim Goni, paid him an advocacy visit at the Army Headquarters in Abuja.
He made the remark during the inauguration of new office complex of the Army War College Nigeria, at Asokoro in Abuja.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, stated this on Wednesday in an interview with newsmen after inspecting some stands at an exhibition of locally manufactured military equipment.
Buratai spoke on Saturday at the ground breaking ceremony for the building of the headquarters of the school at Jaji Cantonment in Kaduna.
The Acting Chief Medical Director, 68 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital Yaba, Brig.-Gen. Adekola Dada, disclosed this while speaking with journalists at the hospital in Lagos.
A statement issued by Brig.-Gen Texas Chukwu, on Thursday said the promotion was in recognition of the troops’ valour and uncommon commitment to duty during the operation.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the soldiers were on operation ‘Ayem Akpatuma’ when they were ambushed and killed by the bandits.
Speaking at the inauguration of the committee, Buratai said that the army had an existing procedure for checks and balances in which formations and units rendered computerised arms returns for accounting process.