Attitude IS Affecting The Success Of Counter Insurgency- BURATAI

 

    Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, yesterday, accused officers and soldiers involved in the anti-insurgency war of indiscipline and lack of commitment. The angry army chief said their attitude was affecting the success of the counter insurgency and other security operations in the country.

     He said there were proven cases of lack of willingness on the part of soldiers to carry out their assignments as directed, insisting that professional capacity alone was not a sufficient condition to succeed in a task. Buratai who said willingness to perform the task was of uttermost importance, warned those not willing to perform their duties to get out of the way as the army would no longer tolerate their act. He spoke at the opening of a five-day transformational leadership workshop for mid level officers and soldiers at the Nigeria Army Resource Centre, Abuja.

  “It is unfortunate but the truth is that almost every setback the Nigeria Army has had in our operations in recent times can be traced to insufficient willingness to perform assigned tasks or simply insufficient commitment to a common national/military course by those at the frontlines. “Many of those on whom the responsibility for physical actions against the adversary squarely falls are yet to fully take ownership of our common national or service cause.

   “I, therefore, believe that the transformational leadership workshops will again remind and clarify to participants what our President and Commander-in-Chief meant by: “This generation and indeed, future generations of Nigerians have no other country but Nigeria, we must remain here and salvage it together.” He said Buhari’s exhortation, though about 35 years old, is still relevant given that “in some cases, apathy has even increased amongst the younger generations.” Buratai said it was to address the menace that the army organised the  programme, which has as theme, “Lead, follow or get out of the way.”

   He said: “Some persons may wonder what makes this leadership workshop different from other leadership trainings or programmes that the NA has conducted in the past. We all know that leadership is core to military professionalism, hence all military professional courses include aspects of military leadership skills acquisition.

SUN