All Geo-political Zones Represented In Pakistan Military Training – DHQ

BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Defence Headquarters on Friday debunked insinuations in certain quarters to the effect that the counter terrorism troops trained in Pakistan recently were from a particular geo-political zone. 

A statement by the Director of Information, Defence headquarters, Major General EJ Enenche said a voice clip in one of the major languages of the country has been in circulation on the social media misinforming the citizens by claiming to be in Pakistan where he saw about 1000 Nigerian troops selected from a particular region in Nigeria graduating after their special training, with the directive to come back home to kill Nigerians of a particular tribe.

Genral Enenche said the message being circulated in the social media was not only inciting, untrue but an unverified lie against the Armed Forces of Nigeria, targeted as discrediting the capacity building effort of the military.

According to Enenche; “Operationally, the Armed Forces of Nigeria is poised on building its capacity to meet the contemporary security challenges in the country. This is being done with other countries with similar security challenges of which Pakistan is one; hence, the collaboration with Pakistan for the training of additional counter terrorist troops in addition to own local training efforts. 

“It is instructive to clearly state that the Nigerian troops that trained as a unit on counter terrorism in Pakistan were drawn from the Nigerian Army, Navy and Airforce, in line with the concept of the force generation.

“The personnel cut across all the religions as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution. All the geopolitical zones and major tribes in Nigeria are represented in the composition of the unit, as usual with the Nigerian Military.

“It is not an isolated training programme but an existing and continuous exercise. The Defence Headquarters therefore, reassures all Nigerians that, the Armed Forces of Nigeria is non sectional, regional or tribal.  

“The military is ever ready to protect the lives and property of all in the country hence the ill motivated voice clip should be disregarded,” the Defence spokesman said