Expdonaloaded News; Bring back the Chibok girls alive, army chief charges new MNJTF, commander

The Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Tukur Bura­tai, has charged the new commander of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), Major-General Illyasu Abbah, to do every­thing humanly possible to rescue the kidnapped Chibok girls alive.Gen. Buratai, has equally charged the com­mander to liberate all lost territories and captives from the terrorists, assist humanitarian organisa­tions and bring the reign of insurgency in the lake Chad region to an end in the shortest possible time.

Buratai, who gave the charge while handing over the mantle of lead­ership of the MNJTF, to his successor at the army headquarters yesterday in Abuja, promised the sup­port of the army authori­ties to ensure the success of the operation.
The army chief while noting that the activities of the insurgents was more on the Nigerian ter­ritories, charged the com­mander to apply diplo­macy and patience in his day to day activities and carry the troops along.
Gen. Buratai, while lamenting that the ac­tivities of the insurgents would have ended long before now if neighbor­ing countries where the insurgents run to take ref­uge each time they struck in Nigeria, had agreed to collaborate with the country, said the reorga­nization of the task force and the relocation of its headquarters to Nja­mena, became necessary to prevent the terrorists from consuming the lake Chad continent with their activities.
He told the com­mander that most of the logistics and manpower needed for the operation were already on ground to ensure the success of the operation even as he wished him well in his new assignment.
He announced the es­tablishment of an opera­tional unit at the army headquarters to monitor the activities of the task force.
Responding, Gen. Ab­bah, while assuring that the activities of the ter­rorists would soon come to an end said “I need just three basic things which are capacity building, robust intelli­gence, logistics, proper back up and administra­tion. If we have all these and we hit the ground running, the rest will be history”.