Our security challenges require unusual approach – COAS

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Taoreed Lagbaja, on Tuesday, said the security challenges in the country require an unusual approach to deal with them.

He stated this while declaring the 2nd Senior Command and Leadership Seminar opened in Sokoto State.

The theme for this year’s seminar was, ‘Capacity Development of Nigerian Army Personnel to Meet Contemporary Security Challenges in a Joint Environment’.

“It is necessary for us to note that the fight against various forms of insecurity in our country ranging from insurgency, kidnapping for ransom, banditry, terrorism, secessionist movements and other attendant security challenges have taken some unusual dimension.

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“They, therefore, require a workable unusual approach to tackle them if they are to be surmounted.

“This workable unusual approach is part of the anticipated results this kind of training activity is set to achieve, especially when we leverage on available circumstances to tap from the knowledge and wealth of experience of the stakeholders and resource persons,” he said

The COAS, who was represented by the Commander, Training Doctrine Command Nigerian Army, Major General Kelvin Aligbe, noted that the seminar was designed to equip senior commanders and senior military leaders with requisite skills and competencies.

Earlier, the General Officer Commanding 8 Division, Major General Godwin Mutkut, stated that the choice of the theme was necessitated by the need to create a forum where security stakeholders in operational and administrative management would converge to harness their intellectual potential on the best way to address their challenges.