Buratai lays foundation stone for southern Kaduna military formations

THE Chief of Army staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, has laid the foundation for the formal setting up of a military barracks  in Kafanchan in Jema’a local government area of Kaduna State.

Performing the founding laying ceremony, on Saturday, the Army chief said the setting up of military barrack in the area would consolidate the peace process that had already started in the area.

According to him, the Federal Government is committed to ensure that peace reins in every part of the country.

He charged the inhabitants of the area to live together, saying, without peace there would not be any meaningful development.

Earlier, the General Officer Commanding 1 Mechanised Division, Major-General Adeniyi Oyebade said since the presidential approval, the Army had been looking for a suitable land to establish a battalion in Kafanchan.

“But our worries came to an end, when the emirate told us that the Army has an abandoned land here. And we were glad that the emirate later showed us the piece of land.

In his own remarks, Governor Nasir el-Rufai disclosed that the state government would, as from Monday, start the process of giving the land title to the land to the army.