The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya has asserted that logistics remain a critical component in war, if decisive success must be achieved. The COAS made this known during his remarks at the Combat Service Support Training Week 2021, held at Brigadier General KH Yakubu Officers’ Mess, Nigerian Army School of Supply and Transport (NASST), Ugbowo, Benin City, Edo State.
This was made known in a press statement issued by, Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu in Abuja today, 26 August, 2021. The statement further said that, the COAS stated that experiences in the North East and other theatres of operations have sufficiently demonstrated that the need for essential logistics supplies in all forms of operations cannot be over emphasized, if operational success must be made.
The statement said, “in the same vein, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State re-affirmed the support of the Edo State Government for the Nigerian Army(NA), especially in light of the enormous and selfless sacrifices of troops, who put their lives in harms way, in order to foster peace, progress and development in the country”.
The statement said, governor Obaseki made this declaration during the event, while highlighting the State Government’s effort in the ongoing construction of a 20- room hostel accommodation for the NASST.
Also speaking at the event, the Commander Corps of Supply and Transport, Major General Bolaji Salami stated that the training week would afford the Combat Service Support Arms of the NA the opportunity to discuss topical issues that border on logistics and how best it could be streamlined in support of NA operations. He thereafter urged the participants to come up with a robust logistics blueprint that would assist the NA in defeating its adversaries, the statement said.
Major highlights of the event was the inspection of the ongoing construction of the 20-room hostel accommodation by Governor Godwin Obaseki accompanied by the COAS, Principal Staff Officers from Army Headquarters and Corps Commanders and a static display of inventions and innovations by various combat service support corps of the NA concluded the statement.
