The rotation of soldiers and officers who have stayed too long in the battle front against Boko Haram sect in Yobe State has started with the heavy influx of new troops to the state.
The General Officer Commanding, 3 Division (Tactical), Damaturu, Maj. Gen. Hassan Umaru, disclosed this while fielding questions from journalists in Damaturu.
He spoke when the Yobe State Police Commissioner, Mohammed Zanna Ibrahim, visited him in his office.
Gen. Umaru dismissed claims that some of the over-stayed soldiers are frustrated, stressing that the morale of the troops is very high because they have everything required to prosecute the war against the insurgents.
He said, “There is no personal of this division that is frustrated in any way. The issue is that, having stayed for quite some time in the battle field, it is mandatory that we find some sort of relief for them by rotating them, or we give them welfare passes to go and see their families for two to three weeks and come back. I want to repeat, there is no soldier that is frustrated. I have not heard of that since I came here and I don’t know where you got your own information.
“We have a program now. If you look at what is happening in the last one week, you will discover that more troops are coming in. In the next few days, they will now jump into the battle areas and these ones will now pull out.”
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