UK COMMENDS NIGERIAN MILITARY ON BOKO HARAM

The United Kingdom has expressed satisfaction
with the successes recorded so far by the
Armed Forces of Nigeria in the tackling of Boko
Haram insurgency in the North East and
promised to collaborate with Nigeria for further
success.
The United Kingdom Assistant Chief of Defence
Staff, Rear Admiral Simon James Ancona made
this expression when he led a delegation of the
UK Ministry of Defence and Engagement on a
courtesy visit to the Nigeria Chief of Defence
Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin.
Rear Admiral Ancona reiterated that the way
the Nigerian military subdued the Boko Haram
terrorists has further put the Nigerian Armed
Forces in particular and the nation in general on
a positive radar of global assessment index. He
commended the military and allied security
agencies for their doggedness and sacrifice that
have led to the decimation of the murderous
terrorists group and called for sustenance of
the onslaught to wipe insurgency from our land.
The senior military officer pledged that the UK
Armed Forces would continue to work closely
with their counterpart in Nigeria towards
strengthening the capacity of the Nigerian
military to be more potent and responsive in the
discharge of their constitutional mandate.
The UK team leader explained that the
delegation was in Nigeria as a follow-up to
variety of regional and global security matters
discussed earlier in the year at a Peace
Keeping Conference held in the UK.
The visit, he said, would further strengthen and
improve the historic and harmonious bilateral
relationship between the two great nations,
assuring the CDS that British contingent in
Nigeria would always abide with extant rules
and operations mandate of troops in Nigeria.
In his response, General Olonisakin expressed
his profound gratitude to the UK Government
for all the assistance the Nigerian Armed
Forces have enjoyed from the UK. He however
solicited for stronger tie in intelligence sharing,
military hardware, manpower capacity building
and training in counter Improvised Explosive
Devices (IEDs) and Deep Penetration Detection
Devices (DPDDs)



Source :LIB
Edited by DANIEL IKECHUKWU EKWUNIFE