Saturday 16 January 2016

Armed Forces Day: PMB Tasks Troops On Missing Chibok Girls

Armed Forces Day: PMB Tasks Troops On Missing Chibok Girls

Abdulkareem Haruna
Leadership Newspaper  Jan 16, 2016

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, at the Eagle Square, thrilled soldiers at the frontline in Borno state when he spoke with them via newly acquired state of the earth military virtual communication van called Mobile Command Post (MPC).
From Abuja PMB Speaking with troops in Maiduguri
Via the Mobile Command Post 

The Mobile Command Post, according to the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usma, has the capacity to simultaneously interface, from anywhere in Nigeria, with both air and ground troops at the frontline.

PMB as the Commander of the Armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria also urged the air troops to use the latest communication technology in locating the missing Chibok Schoolgirls and promptly provide necessary intelligence for the ground troops to move in for rescue.
Chief of Defense Staff General
Olanisakin taking Salute

The President, who after laying the wreath of honour, in symbolic respect to the fallen heroes, during the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration at the Eagle square Abuja, was later led to the MPC where he was linked virtually with the troops in Maiduguri and those at Bita, Izge and Gwoza.

Flanked by the Chief of Defense Staff, General Gabriel Olanisakin, the chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant Colonel Tukur Buratai, as well as other service Chiefs, PMB spoke directly with the troops through the Deputy Theater Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General L.E.O Irabor.

“This innovation is quite impressive and, I believe, a morale booster for our troops. I congratulate you very much in indeed”, said Buhari, to the military chiefs.

To the commander of the troops in Borno, PMB said “I hope you have been able to cope in spite of the weather over there; I know it is dusty, it is cold; and from the SITREP (situation report) I have been receiving, I am really impressed and I thank you and congratulate you for doing your best within the circumstances. Thank you very much indeed”, the president told the commander in Maiduguri.

The President further informed the troops that his government and the people of Nigeria are very much concerned about the welfare of the troops
Service Chiefs: COAS, CNS, CAS, IGP
Taking Salute at Eagle Square

“We are all concerned here about the troops performance as well as the rest of the nation; I hope they are in touch with their families back at home and I hope everybody is fine there. I assure you that government is doing its best to ensure that troops is provided the best that is possible in terms of military hardware and ensure efficiency in logistics; and we have ensured that you are paid your allowances so that your family will be happy back in the barracks. Thank you very much indeed.”

Done with the ground troops commander, the MCP was switched to connect with the air force troops that were at the moment airborne and carrying out air surveillance over southern parts of Borno state where Boko Haram terrorists had their strong holds.
Portrait of a soldier mourning a fallen  colleague, 

From inside his aircraft, the Commander of the Air Operation, Air Vice Marshall Isiaka Amao briefed PMB live on the ongoing air patrol being carried over Bita, Izge and Gwoza axis of Borno state.

AVM Amao informed the president “Bita has been a very stronghold for Boko Haram and it used to be their major logistics base and our ground troops as you can see from the footage we are beaming right away have taken that position. Our ground troops have taken over most of those location and they are on seriously mop up operation there ”.

As the aircraft hoverred towards Izge and Gwoza, AVM Amao told the keenly attentive PMB: that “even on the Sambisa forests we have carried out some strikes and our ground troops had moved in… Gwoza has been where the Boko Haram has declared as their caliphate but our troops have taken over all the places….We have been able to reduce their capability.

Beaming some closer footage of destroyed and burnt communities the Air Operations Commander explained further that “Your Excellency sir, once we advance to take over a town, because the Boko Haram know we are going to overpower them, they would quickly set the whole villages on fire and even bomb down most of the structures there”.
Soldier Revolde Arms Position in respect
to Fallen Heroes 

Visibly impressed, PMB there gave a direct order concerning the abducted Chibok grils to the officer in the field saying “The nation is earnestly waiting for you to provide the intelligence on the where about of the Chibok girls; yesterday I had a meeting with the parents of the Chibok girls. We want the air force to locate and provide the credible intelligence while the ground forces will develop tactics and strategy to recover them. We all wish you the best of 2016.”.

The president was also shown graphic footage of the city of Maiduguri through the cutting edge military communication kit even as he was told that so many state of the earth CCTV cameras have been mounted in strategic locations that would in the future be able to detect any approaching hostile groups like Boko Haram, even from a far

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