The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen Farouk Yahaya, has charged his gallant troops to intensify the fight against terror groups in the country.
The COAS said it becomes necessary to counter terrorism in the country and ensure all adversaries are neutralized and sent to God to answer for their sins.
Naija News understands that Yahaya made the call while addressing newly graduated troops at the Nigerian Army Training Camp in the Kachia Local Government area of Kaduna on Friday..
The graduation marked 16 weeks of the troop’s extensive training. At least 699 personnel of the Special Forces personnel of the ‘Exercise Restore Hope II were graduated on Friday.
The COAS having encouraged the graduates, charged them to be merciless and brutal toward all criminal elements in the country. He said the Special Forces would be deployed to theatres of operations like those of Operation Restore Hope l who were recording successes in the fight against criminality and all forms of terrorism.
According to him, the massive victory recorded by the Special Forces of the Restore Hope I, encouraged the continuation of the exercise with improved versions of combat and battle-ready skills.
The COAS stressed that continuous training of personnel became necessary in the service in as much as results are highly desired.
“The training is focused on addressing our challenges and with what we have seen, you will perform much and better than your predecessors,” he said.
The COAS maintained that the Special Forces personnel would be the answer to kidnappers, terrorists and bandits terrorising and disrupting the peace of the nation.
He added: “You must deploy the training you all received here to ensure sending all our adversaries to God to answer for their sins.
“It is our duty to continue training across all our institutions in addressing all emerging security challenges confronting us.
“We have reviewed our curriculum to continue addressing what we see in the field,” Yahaya said.
Yahaya urged the Commander, Training and Doctrine Command, and other Commanders in the Nigerian Army to continue to train to improve the competencies and skills of every soldier and officer of the service. He restated the Nigerian Army’s commitment to improving the welfare of its personnel in order to continue achieving results.
Naija News understands that the personnel were trained in sniping, long-distance shooting, counter-ambush and assault on enemies’ defence positions and taking the higher ground, among others.
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