Recall ex-service men to fight insecurity – Retired military officers tell FG

Retired senior military officers of the 33rd Regular Course of the Nigerian Defence Academy have called on the Federal Government to initiate modalities to engage  the services of ex-servicemen to bolster the number of troops available to fight insecurity.

According to the retired officers, “the nation’s armed forces is currently over stretched, hence the urgent need to bring back retired military officers who are willing and capable to assist in the training of younger officers and men.

President of the 33rd Regular Course Association, Air Commodore Ibrahim Umar, retd, who made the call during the Annual General Meeting of the Association in Kaduna yesterday, urged the government to, without delay, engage ex-servicemen to overcome banditry, terrorism and kidnapping.

Air Commodore Umar also demanded the recruitment of more officers and men into the armed forces in order to police some of the ungoverned spaces in the country and around the nation’s porous borders.