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.
Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar
Acting Director Defence Information
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