President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria
President Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration will ensure that the Nigerian Armed Forces are well equipped to enable them discharge their responsibilities both internally and globally, while also alerting them to the sensitive nature of today’s media environment.
In a speech delivered on his behalf by the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo at the graduation ceremony of the Senior Course 37 of the Command and Staff College in Jaji on Friday, President Buhari promised that “I will like to assure you that our administration will not relent in equipping the Armed Forces to firmly address all forms of threats that may arise both in peace and war.”
Besides, the Vice President also visited the National Defense Academy, NDA, in Kaduna, where he met some of the Nigerians who escaped or where rescued from the Sambisa forest base of Boko Haram terrorists.
At the graduation ceremony in Jaji, President Buhari reminded members of the Nigerian Armed Forces, that they have “a principal role to play in protecting the lives and property of our citizens from all forms of internal or external threat.
He noted that while the civil police continues to be primarily responsible for internal security, “the scale of the current security challenges facing our nation requires the military to play a more decisive role in support of civil power.”
The President asserted that the Nigerian military must remain apolitical and neutral in performing its constitutional role, stressing that, the military has made good progress in the war against terror, even though faced with contemporary security challenges that were not envisaged some decades ago.
Warning members of the Armed Forces to be generally mindful of “today’s highly sensitive media environment,” the president observed that
some of the new graduates of the College would be deployed in crisis prone areas inside or outside …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
