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Nigeria: Buratai blames troops for Boko Haram persistence

June 24, 2019

By Teslim Olawore [caption id="attachment_60866" align="alignnone" width="653"]Buratai Buratai[/caption] The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has given reasons why the Nigerian Army continue to linger in the fight to wipe out the terrorist sect Boko Haram in the North Eastern part of the country. He made the reasons known in a speech he delivered at the opening of a five-day leadership workshop for mid-level officers and soldiers in Abuja. Buratai said, “It is unfortunate, but the truth is that almost every setback the Nigerian Army has had in our operations in recent times can be traced to insufficient willingness to perform assigned tasks or simply insufficient commitment to a common national and military course by those at the frontlines. “Many of those on whom the responsibility for physical actions against the adversary squarely falls are yet to fully take ownership of our common national or service cause. And this is the reason why I have always ensured that the promotion of army personnel is essentially based on professional considerations only. “But we all know that professional capacity is not a sufficient condition to succeed in a task; willingness to perform the task is equally necessary. We all know that leadership is core to military professionalism; hence all military professional courses include aspects of military leadership skills acquisition.” He went further to say that an effect of modernisation, globalisation and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the last decades had been the decline in nationalistic enthusiasm. “Hence the theme of the workshop has been aptly chosen as ‘Lead, follow or get out of the way,’” he added. This revelation is coming as Boko Haram terrorists, have constantly attacked Nigerian Army bases in the North East, which has led to death of many soldiers.

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