Our Plans for criminals
OpenLife Nigeria reports that the newly appointed Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, has disclosed part of his strategic plans to deals with insurgents and bandits.
Speaking earlier today at the State House when President Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo decorated him with his new rank of Lieutenant General, the Army Chief said the momentum of eliminating the insurgents from the nook and cranny of Nigeria would be sustained.
He vowed that the Nigerian Army, under his watch, will be unsparing in the deployment of all available tools to deal with criminal elements.
Said Yahaya: “Many of them [bandits and criminal elements] have been sent to God to answer for their crimes, and we will continue to do that,” he vowed.
Born on January 5, 1966, Faruk Yahaya, a member of 37 Regular Course of the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, assumed office as Chief of Army Staff on May 27, 2021.
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