Army Has Legal
Army Has Legal Documents for Land Claimed by Gbagyi
Natives–Buratai
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur
Buratai, said the claim by some Abuja natives that the Nigerian
Army (NA) forcefully seized and collected their ancestral land is
false and malicious.
He said, on the contrary, there are necessary legal documents to
prove that the land belongs to the Army and not for the
natives.
Buratai, made the disclosure, at the ground-breaking foundation
laying ceremony of Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment and Headquarters
Directorate of legal Services located at Giri, Airport Road,
Abuja
The Chief of Army Staff, said that the Giri Command Estate’s
land was officially granted to the Army in 1979, but it was in 1997
that they Army got the Right of Occupancy and other necessary legal
documents from the then Military Administrator of the Federal
Capital Territory (FCT).
Buratai, reiterated the Army’s commitment and determination to
rid the country of “bad elements” and protect its territorial
integrity.
In collaboration with other security agencies, the COAS, added
that persons who intend to foment trouble or threaten the peace and
unity of the country will be severely dealt with.
Welcoming guests to the event, Major-General Ebong O. Udoh,
Chief of Logistics at the Army Headquarters, noted that the state
of both offices and residential accommodation in military barracks
and cantonments before the Buratai assumed office in 2015 left much
to be desired.
The appalling situation, Maj. Gen. Udoh, said took a heavy toll
on the state of welfare and well-being of personnel, hence
dampening their moral and fighting efficiency in the on-going
counter-insurgency war and other internal security operations.
He however, said that within the past three years, more offices
and residential accommodations have been constructed, and several
dilapidated ones were renovated.
High point of the occasion was the foundation-laying of a block
for the construction of an office complex by the COAS.
Office buildings, residential apartments for senior Army
officers, a Golf Course, and recreational centres, among others,
are projects currently being constructed at the Command Estate.
By PRNigeria