President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked the Nigerian military to increase their efforts for more intelligence on the rescue of the girls of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorist in 2014.
To this end, he has charged the troops engaged in the Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency (CT COIN) operations in the North East to ensure that all efforts were made to rescue the girls while continuing their final push to defeat the terrorists
The President gave this charge to the troops while speaking to them from Abuja through a live video feed during this year’s Wreath Laying Ceremony of the 2016 Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebrations at Eagle Square Abuja.
Through the video conversation, Buhari was able to interact with the troops and officers who briefed him on operations of troops in Bita, Gosa and Sambisa through a newly introduced military technology called the Eagle Mobile Command Post.
The President also spoke in real time to some Nigerian Air Force personnel on board a surveillance jet flying above Borno State.
He was also able to view live through a large monitoring screen surveillance video tracking, the movement of insurgents and troop locations from the skies of Borno State.
He said: “Yesterday, I had a meeting with the mothers and fathers of the Chibok girls; the nation is anxiously waiting for you to provide intelligence on their whereabouts and then, the ground forces developing the strategy and tactics to recover them. We wish you the best of 2016.”
“I assure you, government is doing its best to ensure that troops are provided with the best that is possible in terms of military hardware and efficiency in logistics, your pay and allowances, so that your families will be happy back in the barracks.”
The President also led other dignitaries to lay ceremonial wreaths at the cenotaph of the Unknown Soldier, after which the Firing Party concluded the 21 gun salute.
Afterwards, he signed the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Register, before the freeing of symbolic white doves.
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