Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Taoreed Lagbaja, on Tuesday declared open the 2nd Senior Command and Leadership Seminar in Sokoto State, saying the security challenges in the country require an unusual approach to deal with them.
With theme, ‘Capacity Development of Nigerian Army Personnel to Meet Contemporary Security Challenges in a Joint Environment,’ General Lagbaja said: “It is necessary for us to note that the fight against various forms of insecurity in our country ranging from insurgency, kidnapping for ransom, banditry, terrorism, secessionist movements and other attendant security challenges have taken some unusual dimension.
“They, therefore, require a workable unusual approach to tackle them if they are to be surmounted.
“This workable unusual approach is part of the anticipated results this kind of training activity is set to achieve, especially when we leverage on available circumstances to tap from the knowledge and wealth of experience of the stakeholders and resource persons.”
The COAS, who was represented by Commander, Training Doctrine Command Nigerian Army, Major General Kelvin Aligbe, noted that the seminar was designed to equip senior commanders and senior military leaders with requisite skills and competencies.
Earlier, the General Officer Commanding 8 Division, Major General Godwin Mutkut, stated that the choice of the theme was necessitated by the need to create a forum where security stakeholders in operational and administrative management would converge to harness their intellectual potential on the best way to address their challenges.