The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai has said that the Nigeria Army would recruit 12,000 men in 2017 to boots the war against Boko Haram insurgents and other insecurity in the country.
Buratai, whow spoke today, Wednesday during a budget defence session with the House of Representatives Committee on Army, said that the recruitment exercise would take place after the Army’s 2017 budget proposal of N152.8 billion is approved.
He said that the exercise would be in two batches with 6,000 men first and another 6,000 later.
The army chief said that the Army is currently engaged in different operations in almost all the states of the federation, combating criminalities such as kidnapping, terrorism, pipeline vandalism, cattle rustling, among others.
He complained that delay in release of funds is frustrating military operations nationwide, and that the morale of troops must be boosted regularly. [myad]
