The United State Director of Defence
Intelligence Agency, Lt Gen Vincent Stewart,
has commended the resilience of the Nigerian Armed Forces for defeating Boko
Haram and chasing them out of their once safe haven, Sambisa forest. Lt Gen
Stewart made this remark when he visited the Nigeria Chief of Defence Staff
General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin at the Defence Headquarters Abuja.
The US Director of Defence
Intelligence Agency stated that he was in Nigeria to meet with the top echelon of
the Nigeria Armed Forces with a view to collaborating in the areas of security
and to pledge more support for the military in order to engender total stoppage
of Boko Haram from operating in Nigeria territory and denying them future
freedom of operation.
In his response, the CDS, General
Gabriel Abayomi Olonisakin appreciated the cordial working
relationship between the US and Nigeria, especially in military
cooperation. He thanked the United States
for all the supports the Nigerian Military has enjoyed from them, saying the
gesture has contributed immensely to the success recorded against insurgency.
General
Olonisakin used the occasion to intimate the visiting US senior military officer
that the Nigerian Armed Forces always uphold the tenet of human right and
dignity in its operations. He told the
US Security Chief that presently, Nigerian Armed Forces has established Human
Rights Desks in all its units and formations to safeguard human rights of
Individual including the belligerents.
This giant stride, he said, was believed to encourage the United States
Government to render more assistance to Nigeria and its Armed Forces.
RABE ABUBAKAR
Brigadier General
Acting Director Defence
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