The Chief of Army Staff Faruk Yahaya, has expressed the Nigerian Army’s readiness to cooperate with the Implementation and Advisory Committee on the Reform of Armed Forces and Ministry of Defence.
Yahaya gave the assurance when the members of the committee led by Abel Akale, visited Army Headquarters in Ábuja.
Akale represented the Chairman of the committee and former Chief of Army Staff, retired Major General Alwali Kazeem.
The Chief of Army Staff said that Army Headquarters had confidence in the committee looking at its composition and calibre of the members of the committee.
He said that army was committed to make input when necessary, adding that the service had a good representative on the committee.
According to him, army cannot expect anytime less from a committee that has former Chief of Army Staff and former principal staff officers, General Officer Commanding, commanders and commandant as well as other retired senior officers.
Earlier, the representative of the committee chairman said the implementation and advisor committee was inaugurated recently following the approval of the recommendations of the reform committee by President Muhammadu Buhari.
