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By Sumaila Ogbaje
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, says the Armed Forces of Nigeria is dedicated to working with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger regardless of their withdrawal from ECOWAS.
Musa gave the reassurance in Abuja, when he obtained a delegation of the Sahelian Think Tank from Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger often known as ‘Alliance De Sahel’.
The delegation led by the Coordinator, Fusion Center for Dialogue and Peace Processes, Aliyu Gebi, is within the nation to below examine Nigeria on its non-kinetic method to tackling the menace of terrorism and the success of operation Safe Corridor.
The defence chief careworn the necessity for Nigeria and the Sahelian nations to work collectively to deal with terrorism, including that no matter occurs within the Sahel resonates with the nation and vice versa.
He mentioned that the militaries of the area have been working collectively to realize peace, and revealed his intention to go to Mali and Burkina Faso.
“This assembly got here at an excellent time, particularly now that so many issues are taking place in Africa. It reveals the unity of objective.
“Your presence right here from the Sahelian nations reveals that we’re nonetheless united, in spite the challenges.
“And for all Africans, we should unite. The enemies we’re coping with are enemies that don’t imply effectively for us, particularly within the Sahelian area.
“They don’t have any respect for all times, no respect for humanity, no respect for boundaries.
“It is critical that we must work together to fight and defeat them, and I am happy that we have our brothers from Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, and other countries here to come and see what we are doing with our disarmament programme with Operation Safe Corridor,” he mentioned.
Musa emphasised that the kinetic and the non-kinetic operations should go hand in hand, including that the kinetic accounts for less than 30 per cent of the answer.
He mentioned that the non-kinetic was primary, including that there should be good governance inside the nations, equity, justice, and fairness to have the ability to overcome the challenges.
The CDS suggested the Sahelian nations to dam terrorists entry to mining websites and hint their international sponsors to dam their sources of funding.
Responding, the chief of the delegation, reiterated that the area could be safer and stronger working collectively .
Gebi mentioned that no matter occurred in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso would resonate in Nigeria.
He recommended the Nigerian navy for successful the struggle towards insurgents however careworn the necessity to harmonise methods in direction of successful peace.
He mentioned the group was in Nigeria to review how one can join kinetic and non-kinetic operations to win peace.
The Head of delegation of the Alliance of Sahel States, Gen. Aime Sampore, mentioned that, there was the popularity {that a} serene and steady Sahel would transmit on to a serene, steady and affluent Nigeria.
Sampore mentioned {that a} serene, steady and affluent Nigeria would additionally straight transmits, not solely to a serene, steady and affluent Sahel, however to the entire of Africa.
This, in line with him, is the aim of the go to. (NAN)
Edited by Deborah Coker