The Federal Government has assured on continuous investments in building capacity and capability of the Nation’s Armed Forces towards insecurity in parts of the Country. President Muhammadu Buhari made this commitment in a message to the graduation ceremony of Course 42 of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Nigeria, Jaji Military Cantonment, Kaduna State.
The President , who was represented by the Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (rtd) expressed satisfaction that the grooming of the Middle level manpower in the Military is receiving what he described as Force Multiplier boost at a time when the country is combating low Intensity Conflict occasioned by non- actors.
He therefore tasked the graduands to raise the bar of Counterinsurgency and Anti- banditry war on deployments to the theatres. Earlier, the Commandant AFCSC Air Vice Marshal Abubakar Sadiq Liman had admitted the graduands into the league of Officers entitled to adorn the prestigious emblem of Pass Staff Course, PSC for short, award after 48 weeks of drillings to attain the professional level of competence.
He said the graduands who are Colonel and its equivalent in other Services are good to take up higher responsibility in the honerous task of National Defence architecture, adding that they are proficiently equipped and qualified to carry out any assigned task to accomplish National Security Aspirations of promoting peace and to end insurgency, banditry and other criminalities facing the nation.
