Linus Aleke in Abuja
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has reaffirmed its dedication to supporting all ECOWAS safety projects, in step with Nigeria’s dedication to regional peace, integration and construction.
The Leader of Defence Body of workers (CDS), Basic Olufemi Oluyede, gave the reassurance when the outgoing and incoming chairmen of the ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Body of workers (CCDS) paid him a courtesy consult with on the Defence Headquarters in Abuja.
He confident the incoming chairman of his complete toughen to verify a a success tenure and additional give a boost to the ECOWAS collective safety mechanism.
Talking right through the consult with, the CDS thanked each chiefs for his or her type remarks about Nigeria and its Armed Forces, describing the consult with as an illustration of cohesion and shared objective.
He known as for more potent brotherhood, brotherly love and harmony of objective amongst ECOWAS member states.
He stressed out the will for member states to put aside their variations, political divergences and bilateral disputes to collectively confront the average existential threats going through the sub-region.
Consistent with him, safety is indivisible, and no country can safe itself by myself.
In a observation, the Director of Defence Data, Primary Basic Samaila Uba, mentioned the outgoing chairman, Lieutenant Basic Amara Idara Bangura, who’s the Leader of Defence Body of workers of Sierra Leone, knowledgeable the CDS that the 2 chiefs had spent the previous two days accomplishing formal handover procedures for the management of the ECOWAS CCDS.
Bangura expressed profound appreciation to Nigeria’s CDS for his unwavering toughen for the ECOWAS CCDS and the sub-regional safety structure all the way through his tenure.
He recommended Nigeria for its main function in selling safety and steadiness in West Africa.
He recalled Nigeria’s ancient and enduring toughen for Sierra Leone, specifically right through the civil warfare and next peace-consolidation efforts, in addition to its broader contributions to the area thru peacekeeping, counter-terrorism cooperation and logistical toughen.
He appealed to Nigeria’s CDS to increase the similar goodwill and toughen to his successor within the hobby of regional peace.
In his remarks, the incoming chairman of the ECOWAS CCDS, Vice-Admiral Oumar Wade, the present Leader of Defence Body of workers of Senegal, thanked Nigeria’s CDS for the very good reception and heat hospitality prolonged to the delegation.
He highlighted the complicated and evolving safety demanding situations going through the area and the ECOWAS neighborhood, together with terrorism, violent extremism, transnational organised crime and maritime lack of confidence.
Wade stated Nigeria’s function as a regional chief and an anchor state in West Africa.
He known as for Nigeria’s persisted toughen, steering and energetic participation to allow the committee to fulfil its mandate.