Ineffective Armoured Vehicles Setbacks In Counter Insurgency Operations – Buratai

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The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant- General Tukur Buratai has said that the Nigerian Army suffered some limited setbacks in the ongoing counterinsurgency operations in the North East, partly due to the ineffectiveness of some armoured fighting vehicles and other light skin vehicles imported from overseas.

Speaking at the commissioning
ceremony of the Nigerian Army Vehicle Manufacturing Company (NAVMC) in
Kaduna over the weekend, the army chief said the desire to develop both
light and heavy combat vehicles to meet current operational and tactical
demands in counter-terrorism and counter insurgency operations, as well
as future needs, informed the establishment of the coy.

He said the Service will begin to export combat vehicles to other African countries in the year 2030.

He
maintained that the Nigerian Armed Forces ability to tackle internal
and external challenges shows that much needs to be done to reposition
the Nigerian Army and the Armed Forces of Nigeria as a whole towards
self-sufficiency in production of indigenous military equipment and
other arsenals of war.

He noted that NAVMC is poised to meet the
Army’s requirement in production of AFVs and also project their business
capacity to other African countries in the near future.

The COAS
added that in order to promote indigenous contractors and local content
policy of the Federal Government, the military vehicle manufacturing
company will partner with some companies like ASD Motors Nig Ltd,
Venture Force Limited, Innoson Motors, Machine Tool Company Osogbo and
Peugeot Automobile Kaduna amongst others.

According to Buratai,
“The overall objectives are to ensure that NAVMC meet the NA vehicle
requirement by 2025 and begin export of its products to other African
Countries by 2030.

“I am exceedingly pleased to acknowledge that
within 6 weeks of its existence, the Company has met my mandate by
refurbishing a total of 35 Toyota Buffalo Vehicles, 8 AFVs of various
variants, 10 assorted heavy duty generators and over 10 different TCVs,
water tankers and mobile workshops.

“The foregoing perspectives
clearly indicate that for Nigerian Armed Forces to overcome our internal
and external asymmetric security challenges, there is the dire need to
begin a 360 degrees’ deviation from over reliance on importation of all
classes of tactical and heavy operational vehicles to indigenous
production of mobility war machinery.”

Meanwhile, the Managing
Director of NAVMC, Major General Victor Ezeugwu said the immediate plan
of the manufacturing company is to refurbish a total of 100 different
categories of AFVs and soft skin vehicles repatriated from UNAMID to
support the ongoing counter insurgency operations in North East.

“Within a period of 2 months, we have achieved over 65 per cent of this mandate. The COAS has made concerted efforts to lay a solid foundation for NAVMC,” Ezeugwu.

Source:- Dailytrustng

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