President Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration is employing new tactics and deploying state powers to promote peace and tranquillity in the country.
Represented by the Minister of Defence Maj-Gen Bashir Salihi Magashi (retd), Buhari also restated the political will of his administration to strengthen multinational and multilateral cooperations in the Lake Chad Region to defeat transboarder crimes plaguing the nations.
According to a statement by special assistant to the minister on media and publicity Mohammad Abdulkadri, Buhari stated this in a message to the graduation ceremony of the 43rd Course participants of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, Kaduna state on Friday.
He expressed optimism that asymetric threats are summountable if African countries work together within a clearly defined joint operational environment.
He charged the two hundred and twenty six graduands of the AFCSC to justify huge investments expended on them by adding values to the counter-insurgency and anti – banditry operations, pointing out that to whom much is given much is expected.
He urged the graduands of the forty- eight weeks intensive training to be good ambassadors of the forty years old tri- service institution.
” The President reminded them that graduation is a clarion call to taking up higher duty in service to their fatherland.
” He lauded what he called milestone achievements and pivotal roles, the esteemed military institution is playing in raising the bar of robust professional competences of the armed forces of the Various nations.
“The Commandant Armed Forces Command and Staff College Air Vice Marshal Ebenezer Alade who had earlier confered the prestigious title of the Pass Staff Course, PSC on the graduands said they are found worthy in characters,learning and professionalism,” the statement stated.
