The Chief of Defence Staff(CDS), General Leo Lucky Irabor has sought maximum cooperation from the retired senior military officers, on prime motive to end the insecurity ravaging the nooks and crannies of the country.
Irabor on the occasion of interaction with retired senior officers at 2 Division, Nigerian Army, Adekunle Fajuyi Cantonment, Odogbo Ibadan, disclosed the needs for maximum cooperation in order to wage war against the ceaseless insecurity in the country.
CDS added that the duty of military men is primarily premised on protection of territorial integrity and it is incumbent on him, serving soldiers and the retired senior military officers to rise up patriotically and honestly, with a view to ensuring that the war is won and the country turns to a better and peaceful place to live.
Irabor charged them to assist the country with their pool of experience, military knowledge based, elderly pieces of advice and wisdom that would be instrumental to solve the security challenges bedeviling the peace and stability of Nigeria.
In his own contribution, The Chief of Defence Civic Military Cooperation, Rear Admiral Fredrick Ugu disclosed that the interaction with the retired senior military officers in Southwest was coming into place because of security challenges threatening the cosmopolitan cities of Ibadan and Lagos in the region.
Ugu added that the interaction becomes important and necessary, so as to fashion and map out another strategies through which the bandits, armed robbers, kidnappers and other devilish agents would be defeated in the zone and Nigeria at large.
He said the one day parley was expected to be robust and engagement that requires cross fertilization of ideas, skills and expertise that would no doubt curtail the ravage of insecurity across the country.
General Officer Commanding(GOC), 2 Division, Nigerian Army, Adekunle Fajuyi Cantonment, Odogbo Ibadan, Gold Chibuice welcomed all participants to a day parley geared towards an engagement and fruitful interaction meant to solve the problem of insecurity and enhancing peaceful coexistence in Nigeria.
He emphasized on proliferation of banditry, kidnappings, armed robberies, pipeline vandalism and hoodlums’ attack across the country, he thereby called on participants at the engagement to help contribute their quotas to how the issues threatening the peace and unity of Nigeria would be tackled.