Tunji Wusu –
General Lucky Irabor, a former chief of the defence staff, has issued a warning against using the military for political purposes.
He claims that the military has a sense of community and solidarity that is unmatched by any other industry.
Irabor addressed at a reception hosted by the Defense Headquarters on Friday in Abuja following his Pulling Out march.
He declared, “The friendship and unity that prevails among the armed forces can be found nowhere else, and for that reason you shouldn’t play politics with the military since everyone is represented from the 774 LGA of our country. No leader engages in combat with those he claims to be his relatives.
Contrary to popular assumption, he claimed, regimented training and indoctrination are the only special injections that military people receive.
For those who don’t know, the military is a family, he declared. It is a household. I’ve answered a ton of inquiries regarding getting an injection. That injection—what is it? No injection occurs. Training and discipline are the injection.
You will need five sets of your senior work and five sets of your junior work in order to complete a three-year program. You can’t find the bonding it brings about anywhere else, which leads you to believe it is a cult.
“Traditions and values are passed down from one generation to the next. When you arrive on the field, you recognize one another as brothers. The investment in our military forces is such that other sectors need to take a page from it. I want to take this occasion to appeal to our friends and the citizenry.
Irabor also asked the incoming CDS to follow through on some of the commitments President Bola Tinubu made to the armed forces, stating that doing so would benefit both the nation and the service.
“In my most recent conversation with the president, he made some commitments to the military,” he remarked. Let me kindly ask you to keep the commitments, since doing so will be to the nation’s and the armed forces’ better benefit.
Major General Christopher Musa, the Chief of Defence Staff, had earlier said that the service chiefs would not give up until peace had been restored to the nation’s problematic regions.
In order to achieve peace and stability, he committed to keep encouraging collaboration.
We won’t let you down, Musa vowed. From where you’ve stopped, we’ll go on. Can we meet some of the accomplishments you have made when I’m sleeping? I want to reassure you that we will pick up where you left off and finish all active projects.
“We shall carry on the synergy you began. You will always receive our business due of your experience. I’m not going to let your experience go to waste. We will collaborate with Nigerian citizens. Until Nigeria is completely at peace, we won’t give up.
