The Chief of Army Staff (COAS),
Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Tuesday restated the army’s commitment to rescuing
the 110 Dapchi school girls abducted by insurgents.
Buratai spoke at the inauguration
of the newly completed office complex in the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army in
Port Harcourt.
He said the army and other
security agencies are fully focused on reuniting the missing girls with their
families soon.
“The search for the 110 missing
school girls from Dapchi is an ongoing process”, NAN quoted him as saying.
“Definitely, everybody is
concerned and we are doing our best in finding the missing school girls”.
Buratai also debunked the claims
that the Boko Haram insurgents had regrouped and now controlling a large
territory in the North East Zone.
He said there was “nothing like
resurgence”, adding that “one or two incidents’’ could not be interpreted as
resurgence.
“It is the responsibility of
everybody to join hands and knowing that it is not entirely a military
responsibility but a collective task.
“Every facet of our society needs
to be part of this fight against terrorism. It is a national disaster and
calamity which we must all join hands to defeat,” Buratai said.
He said the media has an
important role to play, urging it to set the agenda for national unity and
peace with focus on ending insurgency and terrorism in the country.
The army chief said the newly
built complex was completed through direct labour with little support from the
army headquarters.
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