General Officer Commanding, 2 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major
General Ahmad Jibrin, has said that the Army is on a red alert, to ward
off any possible Boko Haram infiltration through the nation’s borders
with Benin Republic.
The Army boss, who spoke yesterday while receiving a 17-member team
from the Indian National Defence College, at the 2 Division’s
headquarters at Odogbo Barracks, Ibadan, said his division did not
maintain heavy military presence along the borders of Benin because the
two countries had enjoyed a long history of cordial relationship and
thus did not envisage any external aggression from its neighbours.
He, however, said that the interflow and interactions of the people
of both nations has prompted the military to mount increased
surveillance, in anticipation that terrorists, with foreign backing,
currently locked in battle with the security forces in North eastern
part of the country, might attempt to come in and open another front in
the South West through the peaceful borders with Benin.
He revealed that the military maintained some forward bases along the
borders, which are themselves not far from military formations with
full complement of warfare facilities to respond to any eventualities.
The outposts, he said, conduct routine patrols and other military
operations. The GOC pledged that the cordial relationship between
Nigeria and India would continue to be deepened, describing the Asian
country as the best friend of Nigeria in the area of military training,
discipline and medical development. According to him, the vestiges of
military discipline, which India left in Nigeria when she was invited to
set up the Nigerian Defence Academy many years ago, subsisted till
date.
Sun
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