The Nigerian Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, has commissioned multiple infrastructural projects in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
A statement issued by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu said the projects consist of remodeled Headquarters of 32 Artillery Brigade office complex and newly constructed official residence of the Brigade Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM).
The projects were inaugurated on Wednesday, 2nd August 2023 at Owena Cantonment, Akure.
Speaking at the commissioning ceremony, the COAS enunciated that as part of the pillars of his Command Philosophy, his resolve is to provide sound administrative support to personnel of the NA and their families.
He assured all, that the NA under his watch will continue to develop and improve on infrastructural facilities across all NA formations, units and barracks to provide deserved incentives and succor to all personnel and their families.
He enjoined the personnel to judiciously utilize and maintain the facilities.
The Army Chief therefore charged all personnel of the NA to remain unshakably loyal to the Constitution and Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
In the same vein, the COAS also commissioned a Special Intervention Civil Military Cooperation Project in Oke-Bola community, Akure.
The project is the remodeling and renovation of Local Authority Primary School II, Oke- Bola. At the inauguration of the project, the project executor, Maj Gen Omotomilola Akintade (rtd) disclosed that the project comprised, four blocks of nine Classrooms and a Hall, Basketball Court with spectators’ pavilion, Five – Aside Football Pitch with two spectators’ pavilions, Sports Changing rooms, Lavatories, Bore hole for water reticulation, Perimeter fence, electrification, solar lights and a playground.
Gen Akintade, who expressed gratitude to God for the opportunity to give back to the society, also lauded the COAS for sponsoring the intervention project in his alma-mater.
