Insecurity: Be decisive, alert to countering insurgency, COAS tells troops in Borno

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Major General Faruk Yahaya at the weekend  charged the Troops in the Theatre of Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) to be decisive and alert to the fight against the members of the dreaded Islamic of West Africa Province, ISWAP and Boko Haram terrorist groups in the troubled North-Eastern Nigeria.

This was contained in a statement made available to Defence Correspondents in Abuja on Sunday by the Directior, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu.

According  to Brig. Gen. Nwachukwu, the CoAS gave the directive on Saturday while addressing troops of Sector 3 Operation HADIN KAI/Multinational Joint Task Force, Monguno, Maiduguri Borno State during his maiden operational tour of the Sector as parts of maiden tour of Army formation in the country.

General Faruk Yahaya, who lauded the level of discipline and commitment to duty exhibited by troops of the Sector, however, advised them to be apolitical, decisive and circumspect in all their operational engagements.

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The Army Chief charged both officers and soldiers of the Sector to conduct decisive offensive operations against the terrorist groups marauding in the theatre of operation.

He the Troops to sustain the aggressive tempo of the operations and keep the flag flying, in order to bring insurgency to an end in the Northeast.

The COAS was accompanied during the tour by the Chief of Operations (Army), Major General Ibrahim Yusuf, Theatre Commander Operation HADIN KAI, Major General Christopher Musa, the Provost Marshal (Army) Major General Robert Aiyenigba, Chief of Military Intelligence (Army), Brigadier General Danladi Salihu, Maritime Component Commander OPHK, Commodore Richard Shammah, among other principal staff officers.

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE