The Chief of Army Staff, Faruk Yahaya has the nation Nigerian Army will not fail in its mandate to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.
Yahaya gave the assurance on Friday while addressing troops in Kotangora, Niger state during the “fire power demonstration phase for Exercise Mugun Bugu”.
In a statement by Onyema Nwachukwu, army spokesperson quoted Yahya saying that Nigerian army would provide support to civil authority in mitigating threats to national security.
Elucidating further,”the COAS disclosed that the exercise is the first of its kind, where all combat arms and combat support arms of NA Training Schools come together for a final joint training exercise,” the statement reads.
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“Gen Yahaya pointed out that training is key to professionalism, describing it as one of the pillars of his philosophy of command.
He added,”it is only through training that troops could internalise, practise and perfect the employment of skills and competences, along with requisite equipment, communication and other enablers for the effective conduct of operations and discharge of the constitutional mandate of the NA.
The Army Chief averred that the combined exercise would ensure effective and result-oriented training that would incorporate multimodal training activities aimed at tackling contemporary security challenges, as well as eclipsing threats that may arise in future.
He urged the troops to put lessons learnt from the exercise into practice in their respective formations and units, “as they tackle threats to national security”.