From Molly Kilete, Abuja
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, has joined 12 other chiefs of national armies across Africa at the symposium on “Peace, Security and the Commitment of the Youth”. The symposium is being organized by the French Army Chief of Staff, General Schill Pierre and holding at the Golf de Cicé-Blossac in Rennes, France.
In his address at the opening, General Schill, said the symposium is aimed at enabling the French Army change its mode of engagement with foreign partners, particularly in Africa, with a view to transiting from solely military, to an all-encompassing, mutually beneficial approach to relationship cum engagement.
Director Army Public Relations Major General Onyema Nwachukwu, who made this known, Gen Lagbaja, in
his presentation titled “Armies and the Protection of their National Territory: Legal Framework, Issues and Challenges”, spoke on the issues and challenges armies contend with in protecting their national territory.
Lagbaja, highlighted the applicability of local and international laws and conventions in the face of the harrowing struggle against non-state actors and states, who chose to either ignore or treat them with levity and further exacerbated by the existence of cultural affinities across international boundaries orchestrated by arbitrary boundary delineation.
He suggested broad-spectrum collaborative efforts beyond the Armed Forces as an imperative for addressing contentious issues of how armies can better protect their national territory.
The COAS accompanied by the Commandant Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Maj Gen John Ochai and other members of his delegation later attended the commissioning ceremony of cadets into the French Army at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, Coetquida. The NDA Commandant also initiated bilateral engagements on cadets training on the sideline of the symposium.
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