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By Philip Nwosu
Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Faruk Yahaya, has charged troops around the country to provide safe, secure and conducive environment for the conduct of the governorship and state assembly elections on Saturday.
He spoke while inaugurating completed classrooms and administrative buildings of the Nigerian Army School of Finance and Administration (NASFA) and remodeled and renovated classroom blocks at the Alafia Oluwa Primary School in Mushin in Lagos.
Yahaya commended officers and soldiers of the Army for their conduct during the presidential and National Assembly elections.
“The high professional standards exhibited by personnel provided the needed safe, secured, and conducive environment for the conduct of the elections. As we prepare for the governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections holding on 18 March 2023, I charged you all to maintain the same standard to ensure the civil populace exercise their civic responsibilities. I will continue to provide the needed logistics for formations and units to discharge their responsibilities,” he said.
The Army Chief while commissioning the new structures at NASFA observed that the infrastructural development was in consonance with one of the pillars of his philosophy of command which includes ‘readiness.’
He said readiness was the catalyst that drives the army under his leadership to provide infrastructure and other facilities for training institutions across formations of the force.
“Combat readiness for a professional army can only be achieved by well trained and administered troops, who are in a high state of morale to discharge assigned missions. One of the key components of training is conducive environment for learning, which in turn requires competent instructors or tutors, requisite infrastructure and good administration. It is in that drive that we try to provide necessary infrastructure and other facilities for our schools and training institutions across the Nigerian Army.”
