Nigerian appointed Force Commander for UN Mission in South Sudan

Agency Reporter

A Nigerian, Maj-Gen. Moses Obi, has been appointed as the Interim Force Commander for the newly created UN Mission in South Sudan.



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The UN diplomats told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in New York that Obi, 55, the former force commander of the UN Mission in Sudan had been asked to continue in the same capacity at UNMISS.

A letter to that effect,signed by Alan Ley Roy, head of UN peacekeeping operations, has been communicated to the new Force Commander of UNMISS.

The UNMIS ended its six years of mandated operations on July 9, the same day that South Sudan declared independence, following the Jan. 9, referendum that voted overwhelmingly in favour of secession.

A Security Council resolution establishing the mission had requested the UN Secretary-General to transfer to UNMISS the appropriate functions performed by UNMIS together with the appropriate staff and logistics.

The new mission will consist of up to 7,000 UN peacekeepers and an additional 900 civilian police, according to the terms of the resolution of the UN Security Council.

Prior to his appointment in June 2010 as Force Commander of UNMIS, Obi has served in two previous UN peacekeeping missions, as Platoon Commander in the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, and as Deputy Sector Commander in the UN Mission in Sierra Leone.

He was also Commanding Officer ECOMOG, Commanding Officer of the Multi-National Joint Task Force Operation in Lake Chad, and Acting Commander of the ECOMOG Ground Task Force in Liberia.

Obi was Battalion Commander in Operation FLUSHOUT and ECOMOG, Sierra Leone and he led the intervention force from Nigeria following rebel invasion of Freetown in January 1999.

The general, who received the Nigerian National Honours Award in 2004 for professional excellence, attended the Armed Forces Command and Staff College and the Nigerian Defence Academy.

He is married and has four children.

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Umu Igbo de me nu oh!

Nice one Obi

represent us well there

The immediate past Military Adviser and Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations was Lt Gen Chikadibia Isaac Obiakor, just retired some months back.
But I still doubt the strength about the Nigeria army.

@op are you retarded ? This story is over a year old and i remember posting it here in May 2010.

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A Nigerian General, Major
General Moses Bisong Obi, has
been appointed the new Force
Commander of the United
Nations Mission in Sudan
(UNMIS). General Obi succeeds Major General Paban Jung
Thapa,
a Nepalese who has completed
his tour of duty in the Mission.
He will be inducted into the
mission on 22 May, 2010. Until his appointment, Major
General Obi was the Chief of
Training and Operations,
Army
(CTOP‘A’) at the Army
Headquarters in Abuja. He had also served as the General
Officer
Commanding (GOC), 1 Division,
Nigerian Army.
General Obi who hails from
Oku-Bushuyu in Boki Local Government Area of Cross
River
State, attended the Nigerian
Military School, Zaria after
which
he proceeded to the Nigerian Defence Academy. The General
has since his commission into
the Nigerian Army, also
attended
several military and civil
courses locally and abroad. He has also
held several command, staff
and
instructional appointments at
various levels.
General Obi is a veteran of many military operations and
has
participated in the United
Nations Interim Force in
Lebanon
(UNIFIL) and ECOWAS Monitoring
Group (ECOMOG) operations in
Liberia and Sierra Leone, and
the
multinational operation in the
Lake Chad Area. General Obi is a 2004
recipient of the National
Honours
Award of the Officer of the
Order
of Niger (OON), for professional
Excellence. He also has the
Cross
River State Medal of Honour.
He is married to Barrister Mrs
Patricia Obi and they are blessed
with children www.nigerian-army.org/
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