Army chief urges Nigerians to reject terrorism
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen Azubuike Ihejirika, has urged Nigerians to reject terrorism in order to stop the threat posed by Boko Haram.
Ihejirika said the efforts of the Armed Forces and other security agencies to check terrorism in the country would only yield results if the society refused to support terrorists and their evil acts.
He said those in the habit of justifying acts of terrorism were only giving inadvertent support to the heinous acts perpetrated by terrorists.
According him, the last batch of soldiers trained to be part of the Quick Response Squad of the Nigerian Army had just graduated and would be deployed to curtail terrorism within the country.
The Army chief spoke at Second Annual Seminar on National Security organised by the Alumni Association of the National Defence College with the theme ‘Nation Building and National Orientation: Imperatives for National Security,’ in Abuja on Tuesday.
He said, “Whatever measures we put in place, we would not get the best result and fast enough unless the society as a whole reject terrorism without any justification.
“Those who try to justify acts of terrorism in advertently sway terrorists and some do so only to discover later that terrorism is not a matter to be negotiated and win.
“The Army is not resting on its oars as it is transforming the training of its personnel as members of the last batch of the Quick Response Squad has just passed out and have been deployed to curtail the movement of terrorists.”
A former Military Administrator of Bauchi State, Maj-Gen Chris Garuba, (retd), said national security was beyond focusing attention solely on the military.
Garuba, who was also a former Commander of the NDC, said national security should involve an interplay of socio-economic and socio cultural developments in addition to developing the military. He stressed that only such a situation would culminate in a stable national security.
Also, the President of AANDEC, Rear Adm. Amos Adedeji, said the seminar was organised to provide a meeting point for the previous leadership of the Armed Forces and the present ones.
He also said AANDEC was preoccupied with a desire to focus the attention of the leadership of the nation’s security agencies on the prevailing issues of the day.
Adedeji said, “We want to help focus the minds of the current and budding leadership of our security forces on the patent/latent problems that have led to the difficulties of today in particular the wrong orientation that our country’s people have had especially in the last twenty years.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen Azubuike Ihejirika, has urged Nigerians to reject terrorism in order to stop the threat posed by Boko Haram.
Ihejirika said the efforts of the Armed Forces and other security agencies to check terrorism in the country would only yield results if the society refused to support terrorists and their evil acts.
He said those in the habit of justifying acts of terrorism were only giving inadvertent support to the heinous acts perpetrated by terrorists.
According him, the last batch of soldiers trained to be part of the Quick Response Squad of the Nigerian Army had just graduated and would be deployed to curtail terrorism within the country.
The Army chief spoke at Second Annual Seminar on National Security organised by the Alumni Association of the National Defence College with the theme ‘Nation Building and National Orientation: Imperatives for National Security,’ in Abuja on Tuesday.
He said, “Whatever measures we put in place, we would not get the best result and fast enough unless the society as a whole reject terrorism without any justification.
“Those who try to justify acts of terrorism in advertently sway terrorists and some do so only to discover later that terrorism is not a matter to be negotiated and win.
“The Army is not resting on its oars as it is transforming the training of its personnel as members of the last batch of the Quick Response Squad has just passed out and have been deployed to curtail the movement of terrorists.”
A former Military Administrator of Bauchi State, Maj-Gen Chris Garuba, (retd), said national security was beyond focusing attention solely on the military.
Garuba, who was also a former Commander of the NDC, said national security should involve an interplay of socio-economic and socio cultural developments in addition to developing the military. He stressed that only such a situation would culminate in a stable national security.
Also, the President of AANDEC, Rear Adm. Amos Adedeji, said the seminar was organised to provide a meeting point for the previous leadership of the Armed Forces and the present ones.
He also said AANDEC was preoccupied with a desire to focus the attention of the leadership of the nation’s security agencies on the prevailing issues of the day.
Adedeji said, “We want to help focus the minds of the current and budding leadership of our security forces on the patent/latent problems that have led to the difficulties of today in particular the wrong orientation that our country’s people have had especially in the last twenty years.
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