STRENGTHENING NIGERIA’S FIGHTING FORCE: A PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINATION TO COMBAT INSECURITY IN NIGERIA.

I write to commend our dear President, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR for the visionary and strategic decision he took to expand the Nigerian Army to 12 Divisions and approved the recruitment of 28,000 young Nigerians into the Nigerian Army. This decision couldn’t have come at a better time.

I have always maintained that the asymmetric nature of modern warfare requires not just superior firepower, but superior manpower, strategic spread, and operational agility. With this expansion, the Commander-in-Chief has demonstrated that he is not just a listening leader, but a thinking leader.

The creation of additional Divisions will shorten the response time to threats in ungoverned spaces. This goes to saying that a more robust order of battle means a faster and more decisive end to the remnants of insurgency that have troubled our peace.

The injection of 28,000 fresh, trainable, and intelligent young Nigerians into the system is a double-edged sword of progress that ensures we are simultaneously strengthening our national defense architecture while providing dignified employment for our youth, and shielding them from the claws of crime and extremism.

This is no doubt going to be a boost to the the Renewed Hope Agenda of the APC administration, of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR. The reform in the security outfits will continue sustainably, until our dear country is secured.

May God bless the Nigerian Armed of Nigeria and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Signed:

Senator Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, PhD, GCON
Chairman, Senate Committee on Defence
Federal Republic of Nigeria