Guards Brigade in Kuje, Abuja, the nation’s capital, as part of its Civil Military Cooperation activities, has carried out some community-based projects aimed at improving the lives of people within their areas of responsibility creating closeness between the people and the military.
These projects include the commissioning of a Solar Powered Borehole, Free Medical and Educational outreaches in Danfara village and Government Secondary school Kuje, in Kuje Area Council respectively.
This according to the Assistant Director of Army Public Relations, Guards Brigade, Captain Godfrey Abakpa is in line with the Chief of Army Staff’s (COAS) vision and the Guards Brigade’s zeal to continue to win the confidence of the general populace to effectively secure and defend the Federal Capital Territory and its environs.
Enduring peace
The representative of the COAS and the Director of the Psychological Operations Department of Civil Military Affairs, Brigadier General Ojogbane Adegbe said the project which is part of the non-kinetic face of the ongoing exercise, enduring peace is aimed at impacting positively on the host communities where the operations have been conducted.
He said the projects would address the acute water shortage faced by the affected communities while also improving their well-being as a community.
He further stressed that the Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya remains committed to partnering with host communities to enhance positive civil-military relationships across the country.
Brigadier General Adegbe implored members of the benefiting community to cultivate good maintenance culture to manage and protect the projects so that they could serve them and at the same time stand the taste of time.
Similarly in Danfara Community, the Brigade carried out Free Medical outreach and distributed educational materials worth thousands of naira to the government secondary school, Kuje.
The Commanding Officer 176 Guards Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Kolawole Adisa said the benefitting community was selected based on the need assessment carried out during the kinetic phase of the Brigade exercise ’’Enduring Peace’’ carried out around the FCT and its environs.
The representative of the Commander Guards Brigade Colonel Peter Oyegoke, also speaking at the event, said the Brigade remains committed to partnering with all communities to enhance actionable intelligence, sharing and effective security of the Federal Capital Territory.
He noted that more communities would benefit from future projects and urged them to continue to support the Nigerian Army and the Brigade to ensure effective security and defence of the nation’s seat of power.
The event climaxed with an inter-agencies seminar that brought together all heads of security agencies within the Federal Capital Territory.
Olusola Akintonde
