Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Monday in Damasak Borno State while celebrating Christmas with 145 battalion troops , said Sambisa forest will be one of Nigerian Army's training ground in 2017.
Sambisa forest happens to be one of the Bokoharam's hide out which was reconnoitered and besieged by The Nigerian army before Christmas.
Gen. Buratai said Troops are already conducting mopup operations in the forest to clear to clear the reminant of Bokoharam. He also said Nigerian army will ensure that Bokoharam terrorist never returns to Sambisa forest again.
He added that the forest will be used to test weapons and other fighting equipments and road leading to Sambisa and Alagarno forest will be forged.
“We are also opening up roads to Sambisa and Alagarno forest.
Sambisa Forest is going to be one of our training grounds. I have already directed that we should conduct Nigerian Army small arms
championship in that forest next year.
“And we are going to use it also to test our fighting vehicles, other key
equipment and weapons that require testing whenever we want to induct new weapon and equipment into the
Nigerian Army inventory.
“It will afford us a very good ground for basic tactics and indeed advance tactics, including but not limited to tactics at the Platoon, company, battalion, brigade and even division levels. We are going to make it more robust to make sure that these criminals do not come back to that forest again.”
