Nigeria’s
Major General Tukur Yusuf Buratai has been appointed the Force
Commander of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF).
He has assumed duties at the new Headquarters in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad Republic.
The reorganised MNJTF arrangement is in line with the decisions of
member countries of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) which include
Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroun, with Benin Republic as a honorary
member.
The arrangement has the backing of
partners in the fight against Boko Haram namely; France, the United
Kingdom and the United States.
The MNJTF has now been
sectionised into three sectors to achieve more effect in its operations
with one of the sectors headquarters retained in Baga, Borno State.
The MNJTF was formed as a result of the need by the LCBC member
countries to pool their effort together in a bid to provide a common and
coordinated solution to the security challenges in the Lake Chad Basin
region, especially the security challenges posed by terrorists in the
region and beyond.
The MNJTF will work and collaborate with the forces of the member countries in the fight against terrorists.
General Buratai was a Director at the Defence Headquarters, Abuja before his new appointment.
He had at various times served as the Commandant of the Nigerian Army
School of Infantry and sometimes the Brigade Commander at 2 Brigade,
Nigerian Army as well as Commander, Joint Task Force, Operation Pulo
Shield.
Credit: ThisDay
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