The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai,
on Tuesday, said all that was remaining for the war on Boko Haram to end was
for the political class, intelligence community, Nigeria Police and other civil
authorities to play their roles.
He said the military had played its role well and
won the war by successfully degrading Boko Haram and reclaiming captured
Nigerian territories.
Speaking during the decoration of newly promoted
45 Major Generals, Buratai said, “The Nigerian Army has played its role
satisfactorily. We have won the ground war and the Boko Haram terrorists
substantially degraded. We have secured Nigeria’s territorial integrity and
equally maintained its sovereignty. We have carried out our tasks proudly and
professionally.
“What is remaining now is for other
stakeholders – the political class and intelligence community – to take up the
salient aspects of this war to the remaining ill-fated insurgents.
“The NPF must be fully on the ground in all
the states in the North-East; civil administration must be fully re-established
in all the local government areas. The civil authorities must fight the
ideological, social and propaganda wars.”
He added, “The issues of indoctrination and
propaganda by the terrorists must be stopped. These are the surest way to
finally defeat the insurgents.
“The choice of this venue (Maiduguri) for
the investiture is predicated on the need to boost the morale of troops in the
theatre and also to celebrate your elevation with the law-abiding people of the
North-East, who enjoy normalcy today as a result of the fruit of your service.”
He told the decorated officers that, “Nigeria
will always remain our constituency and we all must be 100 per cent committed
to maintaining its territorial integrity. The large number of you that have
merited to be promoted to this enviable rank of Major General indicates the
significant attainment of my vision of having a professionally responsive
Nigerian Army in the discharge of its constitutional roles.
“It is often said that promotion is a
privilege and comes from God but again, without hard work, anyone’s ambition to
be promoted will be difficult to achieve, if not impossible. It is on this
premise that I commend all the newly promoted senior officers for their hard work,
loyalty and dedication to duty. I will, however, enjoin you not to relent in
your efforts but rather to see this elevation as a call to higher
responsibilities, re-dedication and loyalty to the service and to the nation.”
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