Soldiers’ Welfare Top Priority Of Army Chief –Abdulsalam

Chief of Special Services and Programmes (Army), Major General Jamal Abdulsalam, has said the payment of soldiers remains the apical precedence of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Olufemi Oluyede.

Abdulsalam stated this yesterday portion speaking to newsmen aft inaugurating the recently completed transit accommodation for the unit of the General Officer Commanding (GOC) astatine Bori Camp, Port Harcourt.

“The payment of soldiers has ne'er been arsenic bully arsenic it is present since the constitution of the Nigerian Army due to the fact that truthful galore payment packages of the soldiers person been tackled. The ration currency allowance of soldiers person been doubled since the Chief of Army Staff came in.

“So galore issues that person to bash with soldiers person been handled; their aesculapian is handled, their accomodations, arsenic you are seeing present is being handled, the acquisition of their wards and children is being handled. All aspects of their payment is being handled,” helium said.

In his invited speech, the General Officer Commanding, 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Emmanuel Emekah, said the transit accommodation stands arsenic tangible grounds of continuity, growth, and shared committedness to the well-being of the Nigerian Army personnel.

Emekah said: “Today’s lawsuit is peculiarly important arsenic it not lone consolidates connected the laudable achievements recorded nether your command, but besides reflects the thrust to align with the Chief of Army Staff’s bid philosophy, peculiarly arsenic it relates to troops’ payment and the proviso of befitting surviving and moving conditions.

“The projects we are commissioning contiguous basal arsenic tangible grounds of continuity, growth, and shared committedness to the well-being of our personnel.”

The GOC stated that operation enactment is presently ongoing connected a 60-unit artifact of flats wrong the division, aimed astatine providing accommodation for officers wrong the 6 Division.

“In furtherance of this vision, I americium pleased to pass you that operation enactment is presently ongoing connected a 60-unit artifact of flats wrong the division. This task is designed to code the accommodation shortage faced by officers and volition complement the coagulated instauration laid during your tenure,” helium said.