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The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Gwabin Musa, has bid Nigeria’s information forces with identifying and neutralising transgression elements destabilising the state and the wider Sahel region.
Speaking arsenic Special Guest of Honour astatine the closing ceremonial of Exercise Haske Biyu 2025, held astatine the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, Kaduna State, the CDS declared that the lone way to lasting bid successful the portion is the decisive removal of equipped non-state actors.
“At the extremity of the day, the lone happening we indispensable bash is to look for the atrocious guys and instrumentality them out. That is the lone mode we tin person peace,” Gen Musa stated.
The defence main decried the worsening information concern successful the Sahel, noting that transgression and violent groups successful the portion bash not recognise borders, frankincense necessitating robust multinational cooperation.
“If we clasp connected to our borders alone, we volition proceed to suffer. But if we unite and enactment across, it makes it better,” helium said, urging determination collaboration, particularly done platforms similar the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) successful Chad.
He stressed that subject operations indispensable beryllium complemented by beardown assemblage engagement, adding that information forces cannot win without the progressive enactment of the public.
“Once communities contradict these elements the quality to stay, they volition not beryllium capable to stand,” the CDS said.
Gen Musa besides emphasised the captious relation of the media successful shaping nationalist perception, commending journalists for their sustained and constructive sum of subject operations.
“When cognition is wrong, thing you are doing volition beryllium perceived arsenic being wrong. So the media is critical,” helium noted.
While urging unit to uphold professionalism, the CDS warned against the duplicate threats of corruption and governmental interference successful subject operations, saying they could undermine gains made successful the combat against insurgency and banditry.
“The lone happening we indispensable bash is to look for the atrocious guys and instrumentality them out,” helium reiterated, charging participants to construe their grooming into concrete, results-oriented action.
In his remarks, Commandant of the AFCSC, Air Vice Marshal Hassan Idris Alhaji, described Haske Biyu 2025 arsenic the largest associated workout conducted by the College.
He said the taxable of the exercise, Family and National Security, was deliberately chosen to gully a nexus betwixt societal cohesion and nationalist defence.
According to him, “Weak families and fractured communities make fertile crushed for radicalism and criminality. Our unit indispensable instrumentality the lessons learned present and use them wrong their communities and formations.”
Dignitaries from the military, paramilitary, and civilian nine organisations graced the closing ceremony, underscoring the nationalist value of the workout and the value of an all-of-society attack to security.
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