General Yahaya commends media for consistent reportage 

By: Bodunrin Kayode

The Chief of the Nigerian Army Staff, Lt Gen. Farouk Yahaya has commended the media for the good reportage meted out to the Armed forces in the various war theatres in the country.

Chief Yahaya who was on a one day operational visit to the the North East theatre of Operation Hadin Kai urged the media to do more in keeping the country together. 

He called on reporters and their news managers to be more “nationalistic” in their approach to reportage so that the common enemies will not celebrate or gain upper hand in any of the war theatres against the Army or the entire armed forces. 

Chief Yahaya told the troops of operation Hadin Kai during a lunch meeting Friday that he was satisfied with the operations in the three sectors and the entire country adding that troops are doing well following the new rules of engagements  laid down for them. 

” I challenge you not to relent, but to stay alert by being vigilant as they address the issues  on ground in accordance with our new rules of engagement. 

“the basic teachings of a professional Army like ours is for you to be alert every time, to your obligations, following command and control which is very important across all our locations. We can’t afford to take anything for granted. This is the message I gave them at Baga where I visited and it is for all of you too. 

“. We are not relenting, we are continuing our operations in both the kinetic and non-kinetic. Even those who are supporting the terrorist in one way or the other we are not relenting in our bid to apprehending them. Those who provide information, logistics, those who help them in anyway. We call and urge our own friends here and across to continue also to support and provide relevant information. 

“These people are not from the moon, they are criminals living all along with us, if we see them and we report before they act, we are in a better position before they take action. When we see anything across all other theatres, we should report to relevant security agencies, so that we take action.” said the army chief. 

The Army chief said that troops will continue also to relate with all other security agencies adding that they appreciate other services, like the Nigerian Air force, Navy and all other security agencies that have been contributing to calm the tide. 

He called on troops of the Nigerian Army  not to relent in doing what they are doing, adding that “all our achievements  has being possible by the support of the present Commander in chief who has provided all the resources that we require, all the enablement and he continuously placed enormous confidence in the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Military and other security agencies and that is what he is also given us, in proportionate measure every time.

” The present effort is clear and we are not relenting to provide secure environments, secure country or our social activities. Elections are here, we are all from here, we know were they come from with their additional challenges, but we also have experience from the election being conducted since 1999. So we should never yield on our experience, our contingency plan of large area of trouble, we should enhance our drills and especially liaise and relate and co-operate with others security agencies across, leading agencies like police and other security agencies that provide support. 

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“we have launched our exercises, Operation still waters Golden dawn and others, so that we can check the criminal activities that are associated with the ember month of November, December. And what is the objective, it also sets the conditions for a peaceful election, they act aside, they are actually operations that are eclipsed  in the physical dribble so that they can address unique and peculiar security challenges in the areas where they are lunched, problems that go with them, they will be able to provide secure environment and conducive atmosphere that will lunch us into the election period, all units and formation in the army has contingency plans with the procurement of security and particularly for the coming elections we should as mandated by a our profession always appraise them and review them and continue to be alert and vigilante so that we can review this our plans and activate them when necessary in order to support relevant authorities in the conduct of this coming election and the provision of security for our dear country men and women.”

“Our operation that I mentioned are usually together with this other services and other agencies in order to enhance synergy between us because no one side could do it alone, but together no adversary can defeat us, 

“I want to appreciate you all the press for all the support you have put in the  reportage of our activities, you have a critical role to play, and we appreciate it. 

“So we take it that way I am sure we will harness our strength and I know no one enemy or adversary can take all of us. It’s is not possible, together we will beat them

” So I want to thank you all gentlemen for all your support, sacrifices for every time we are here you are always here, and for the reportage you are doing which to us is a national call, national duty that you have do, we do it too. The press is a professional body, it has his own rules also, you can even call them rules of engagement too. How they should deal with professional threats and, how they should report. 

“Now there are provisional threat, you should also know you have a national duty of Nigeria to support the provision of security and good governance and democracy. 

“The Commanders, officers and men of Nigerian Army, and other services, Navy, Airforce and others security agencies, I like to appreciate you all. We look forward to see you more successes for every engagement we have. like you know this is a time to learn from there, continue to learn and improve our experiences and improve on our operations we have being improving and improvement is continuous, we can still continue to improve and improve until we conclude this operation “

General Yahaya commends media for consistent reportage