Following the refusal of the
Nigerian Army to provide the needed security to officials of the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) and ensue that the country’s general polls
holds, the army headquarters has finally responded to criticisms.
The Director Of Defence Information,
Major-General Chris Olukolade, in an interview with the Voice of America (VOA)
said the military institution is committed to securing the country in time for
the new dates of the general election, Tribune reports.
Major-General Olukolade also
expressed believes that the goal was achievable, given the increased regional
cooperation that “Nigeria is getting at the moment.
“We have committed ourselves to
working to ensure that we achieve the result of making the whole place secured
and every effort is being made towards that end in the sense that we are
improving our fire power, and improving on collaboration with other forces.
What should interest you is what is now different about it. For the period, we
have said it has passed through different stages. You will recall that when the
state of emergency was initially declared, we were able to curtail them and
they simply left our shores and went elsewhere to improve on their mischief.
“Now we are enlisting the support of
other nations around us and hopefully that should make it difficult for them to
have any other place to escape to after this mission. We believe that every
hand will be on deck. Not just the military, but everyone involved in securing
our country will put in their best to ensure that we have adequate atmosphere
for elections to be conducted. The military is equally a stakeholder in the
promotion of our nation’s democracy and anything that is done now is in good
faith,” Olukolade said.
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