The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen TY Buratai was on a tour of Army headquarters of the Nigerian Army Armoured Corps, Nigerian Army Armour School and 33 Artillery Brigade Bauchi on Wednesday 3rd of June 2020, to assess ongoing VT4 Main Battle Tank Training.
The army headquarters is where about 155 officers and soldiers are undergoing training for competent commanders, crewmen, drivers and technicians.
In a statement released by the Acting Director of Nigerian Army Relations, Colonel Sagir Musa, said Gen Buratai while at the army headquarters and addressing the instructors, staff and participants, expressed satisfaction on the quality/level of training, commitment and discipline of the participants. He said:
“Your discipline, commitment and assimilation is so far quite encouraging and commendable. You should continue to learn well and be able to efficiently operate the new platforms in readiness to your deployment into the mission areas.
While I commend your efforts to the training, let me warn that you must operate/handle the new equipment proficiently, we will not accept cowardice, sabotage or inefficiency under any guise whatsoever”
Gen Buratai further urged the participants to maintain high standards of professionalism, effectiveness and discipline in whatever roles they might be assigned or deployed to.
He commended the Commandant, instructors and staff of the school for a good job and directed the students to cooperate fully and learn as well as to apply what they have learnt practically and effectively in any theatre of operation.
Colonel Sagir Musa added that the course participants, through their course leader, appreciated and commended the “inspiring leadership of Gen Buratai and his uncommon efforts in the quest to end terrorism in Nigeria and assured him of their unflinching support and commitment to bring terrorism to an end very soon, leveraging fully on the newly acquired equipment by the Nigerian Army”.
Gen Buratai used the opportunity to evaluate the living accommodation of some soldiers in Shadawanka Barracks, 33 Brigade Bauchi whose roofs were destroyed by the rainstorm.
Repairs are already ongoing as seen during the visit to the affected areas.
“The unscheduled visit to the sites is a reflection of Gen Buratai’s disposition of placing troops’ welfare as one of his topmost priorities.
The construction and renovation of living accommodation for personnel of the Nigerian Army is equally ongoing in most Nigerian Army Barracks across the country.
Instructively, some of the accommodation works have already been completed and commissioned especially in Lagos, Portharcourt, Kaduna, Jos, Enugu and Abuja areas,” Colonel Sagir Musa said.