Stop shunning our recruitment exercises – Nigerian Army urges South-East youths

The Nigerian Army has urged the youths successful Abia and different South-East States to reply a nationalist clarion telephone by joining the Nigerian Army to service the nation.

The telephone was made successful Umuahia connected Thursday during the archetypal variation of an consciousness run organized by the section of Civil-Military Affairs, Nigerian Army for youths, accepted rulers and different civilian nine groups.

The impermanent talker astatine the programme, Maj Gen Gold Chibuisi (Rtd) who delivered a lecture, encouraged the youths of the South-East to halt shunning the Army work but to clasp vocation opportunities successful the Army successful fields of medicine, law, engineering and different areas.

He downplayed the fears astir profiling of Igbo soldiers and dismissed the stories that inferior soldiers from peculiar parts of the state were usually selected and sent to combat unsafe warfare fronts.

Gen. Chibuisi assured the South-East youths that their promotion and payment would not beryllium denied, and urged parents to let their children to enroll into the force.

Also speaking, Maj. Gen Chukwunedum Abraham (Rtd) said the fig from the past Army recruitment successful Nigeria showed that Imo State recorded lone 671 applicants portion 428 persons from Ebonyi State applied, lamenting that the figures were precise debased erstwhile compared to different geo-political zones.

The Chief of Civil-Military Affairs, Nigerian Army, Maj.Gen Musa Awwal Etsu-Ndagi successful his sum...