The Army Has Begun Sensitization Programs In Rivers And Delta To Boost Recruitment And Increase Personnel Intake.

The Army Has Begun Sensitization Programs In Rivers And Delta To Boost Recruitment And Increase Personnel Intake.

The Nigerian Army has commenced a sensitisation campaign in Rivers and Delta to prevent future marginalisation and to boost its regular personnel intake shortfall in the region.

The team, led by Brigadier-General Timmy Mackintosh, said the anomaly is likely not to cause a challenge presently, but in the future.

Mackintosh said, “We are here from the Army headquarters to sensitise Rivers State on the Nigerian Army requirement that is ongoing and the major reason we are doing this is that the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja has realised that Rivers and Delta state in the South-South zone are lacking when it comes to recruitment into the Nigerian Army.

But in the next 10, 15, 20 years, it will be a problem because, at that time, we will be the ones shouting we are marginalised.

“So, the Chief of Army staff deemed it fit that we should come and speak to you to assist us in speaking to your indigenes.

“In as much as we are looking to join the Army, the military is not a place where we do not take care of our own, we do take very good care of our own in areas such as uplifting them academically, medically and otherwise.

“One of the requirements for us is a minimum of four credits for those that want to join the army. I can tell you that with those four credits today, there are people who are going for master’s degrees especially for the lower cadre, because the army sent them to school, both in military institutions and even civil.

On his part, the Secretary to the state, Danagogo, attributed the low turnout of Rivers people to the Army recruitment to ignorance and information gap.