Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, has disclosed that come 2017,
the Nigerian Army will begin to use Sambisa Forest as one of its
training grounds. Buratai disclosed this while speaking to troops in
Damasak, Borno state yesterday. He said:
“We are also opening up roads to the forest – Sambisa, as well as
Alagarno forest. This Sambisa forest is going to be one of our training
grounds. Next year, 2017, I have already directed that we should conduct
our Nigerian Army small arms championship in that forest. And we are
going to use it also to test fire our fighting vehicles, as well as
other key equipment and weapons that requires testing firing 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".
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