The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Farouk Yahaya, said the Nigerian Army will continue to improve on the support it has provided for the
“I believe and I know that by the grace of God you will deliver. Any other requirement you have in mind, like the training facilities you talked about, if the request is made, we will look at where is suited to support you. As you mentioned the training institutions the Nigerian Army has; you are from here, so you know what we have and where your requirement will fit in.
Earlier, the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Gen. Ndiomu had solicited the support and cooperation of the Chief of Army Staff to enable him to carry out the mandate given to him by the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Muhammadu Buhari. “For instance, we have the Nigerian Army School of Military Engineering in Makurdi, Benue State and the Nigerian Army School of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering in Auchi, Edo State; they run all kinds of courses that we think some of these ex-agitators may benefit from, that can lead to their gainful employment or some other roles in terms of entrepreneurship, when they exit the programme eventually.
“Otherwise, I can tell you straight away that it has not been easy and I believe that this particular mandate, handed down to me is even more challenging for this reason and I consider my courtesy call on the Chief of Army Staff, the most important one. “The Nigerian Army has a lot of facilities and a lot of training programmes that will be of benefit to the ex-agitators. I will come back, probably, this time around with a letter or correspondence to that effect. So, in those areas of cooperation that we have identified, we can follow through with the training of these ex-agitators, so that we can get them prepared and make them more useful to society.
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