SAMBISA FOREST NOW ARMY TRAINING GROUND - BURATAI

Following the final recapturing of the dreaded Sambisa Forest, hitherto occupied by Boko Haram terrorist, the Nigeria Army has echoed the need to permanently keep an eye on the forest to forestall future reoccurrence.

The Chief of Army Staff. Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai made this known as the nation celebrates the end of Boko Haram insurgence. According to the Army boss, “We are opening up roads to Sambisa and Alagarno forest. Sambisa forest is going to be one of our training grounds. I have already directed that we should conduct Nigerian Army small arms championship in that forest next year. And we are going to use it also to test fire our fighting vehicles, other key equipment and weapons that require testing whenever we want to induct new weapon and equipment into the Nigerian army inventory. It will afford us very good ground for basic tactics and indeed advance tactics, including but not limited to tactics at the Platoon, Company, Battalion, Brigade and even Division levels. We are going to make it more robust to make sure that these criminals do not come back to that forest again.”