The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, has said the force under his watch is already employing several conflict management techniques, including mediation and town hall meetings amongst aggrieved parties, to resolve disputes and conflicts.

General Attahiru said these initiatives have assisted in de-escalating conflicts and prevented reprisal attacks, while also facilitating the return of some internally displaced persons to their communities.

The Chief of Army Staff spoke at the opening ceremony of the twenty first conflict management seminar of the Nigerian Army College of Logistics (NACOL), lamenting that Nigeria is confronted with several security challenges such as the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East, militancy in the Niger Delta, kidnapping for ransom, cattle rustling, and armed robbery in the North West.

He said that the herdsmen and farmers crisis mostly in the North Central has led to several killings and destruction of livelihood and created many internally displaced persons, adding that the seminar will evolve modalities for synergy between the military and other security agencies that will facilitate prompt intelligence sharing and joint operations towards success in military operations.

General Attahiru, who was represented at the ceremony by the Commander Nigerian Army Ordnance Corps Major General MA Daudu, said that the constant drafting of the military in conflicts or crisis situations demands elaborate actions to bequeath the personnel with the rudiments of conflict management.

‘The Nigerian Army will continue to employ suitable measures to foster cooperation between the NA and other security agencies in order to improve the Nigerian Army’s quest to ensure peaceful co-existence of Nigerian citizens,’ he said.

‘The positive disposition of the populace towards the military must be sustained through the Nigerian Army remaining neutral, apolitical, professional, and observing the tenets of human rights as well as rule of law in all her actions. It is pertinent to note that the NA must sustain capacity building through local and overseas training.’

He said that the theme of the seminar (“Enhancing Synergy between civil and security Agencies for Effective Conflict Management in Nigeria”) is appropriate in the prevailing security circumstances and aligns with the efforts to improve cooperation between the NA and other security agencies.

General Attahiru said a good understanding of the remote and immediate causes of the various conflicts in the country as well as their impacts on the society are precursors to resolving such conflicts and preventing future reoccurrences.

He said that the force will continue to play its role in ensuring a safe and secure environment for the safe return of displaced persons to their homes in troubled areas, assuring Nigerians that the army would continue to uphold the tenets of democracy, comply with rules of engagement and code of conduct during any military operation.

Earlier, the Commandant of the NACOL, Major General Martins Enendu, said this year’s theme could not have been more apt, looking at the challenges of civil military cooperation in the current operating environment which he described as volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.

General Enendu said the seminar seeks to address sensitive issues related to conflict management and resolution in the country as well as identify ways to contributing to the body of knowledge related to conflict management in the country.

LINK:

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/army-seeking-other-means-to-resolve-conflict-in-nigeria-coas/

Ékwekwè ga-èkwé na ute ékwérê....

When the Army started recalling some already retired personnels back to service while announcing the lowering of strong recruitment standards so that more new recruits can easily join the army... , that's when you should know that there's "snake on the roof".

The Army is stretched thin across the country, fighting off fires started all over the place by a wayward presidency. If the trend continues and the president doesn't stop his tendency to devide the country along tribal and religious lines, it's only a matter of time before the center gives away..

What a joke

owobokiri:
Ékwekwè ga-èkwé na ute ékwérê....

One of Igbo's ancient proverbs.

There's no doubt you're a real son of the soil.



Ututu oma, nwanne.

una don tire to use force??

I hate terrorists

Army current method is not actually working

Nonsense and ingredients

Are you guys tired of killing unarmed civilians? Useless army

I hate Nigerian Army

-An army whose combat readiness is only killing innocent citizens while acting as instrument of state terror in the hands of a tyrant?

-An army that is teaming with Miyetti Allah terrorists to rescue citizens taken hostage while granting the same terrorists responsible while decimating its numbers amnesty?

-An army that protects treasonable elements(fulanis, BH terrorists) violating the sovereignty of a nation
but seeing peace citizens advocating self assertion and independence as terrorists?

A non-proactive BH jihadist filled army with useless
C-in-C can only be thinking of what to do because it is clueless about it's own self-destruction.Good, active & responsible armies with foresight solve have solutions for real and imaginary problems.

Divide the shithole and spare us this trash

Nonsense country

Small UGM that Is just few months old has done what BH and the rest could not do for 10 years!

I laughed so hard at the topic chai

So NA knows it can resolve conflicts through other means??
Wonderful.

By the tme UGM turns 1 year (if the yeye army no calm down)
There won't me NA left to be sent to the east.

Somehow somehow them Don get sense say the SE mean business this time and have all the patience to continue for years.

Amuochicha:
I hate Nigerian Army

Death to them all.

Good morning COAS!

Only three months of UGM and we are already hearing about conflict resolution. If they should provoke a Biafran war at this age and in the prevailing wars across the country, It won't be funny for them at all.

dialogue dialogue dialogue

IduNaOba:
Small UGM that Is just few months old has done what BH and the rest could not do for 10 years!

I laughed so hard at the topic chai

So NA knows it can resolve conflicts through other means??
Wonderful.

By the tme UGM turns 1 year (if the yeye army no calm down)
There won't me NA left to be sent to the east.

Somehow somehow them Don get sense say the SE mean business this time and have all the patience to continue for years.

I prefer UGM over Nigeria terrorist.

With all ur men and extra from Chad in the east? Una never ready. That thing u have, we now have....MNK. dialog is d key but are they ready to dialog?

slivertongue:

dialogue dialogue dialogue

Buhari hates dialogue.
He prefers to act like Rambo.
If they have decided to engage with dialogue at this time, it's solely because they're running out options as militancy increases left right and center..
Yet, all these could have been avoided if the president made even the slightest efforts to be a president for everyone and not for the few around him...

The snail thinks that pouring out its body slime in the fire is quenching the fire, not knowing its paying its death debt by installment