Latest reports inform that no fewer than 400 Nigerian
security personnel have left Abuja for Russia where they are to undergo
training as Special Forces to beef up the country’s fight against
terrorism.
According to Vanguard report, the security personnel, made up of
members of the Armed Forces, Police and Department of State Services,
departed the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in a chattered aircraft at about 5pm
on Sunday in company of Nigerian Security officers.
Also accompanying the military personnel are Russian instructors who
had been in the country to be part of the initial selection process of
the men and officers that would take part in the training.
It was gathered that Federal Government’s decision to send the
security personnel to the European country was necessitated by the slow
response of Britain and the United States of America to train Nigerian
security personnel to confront the Boko Haram terrorist group.
A source informed that the latest group of Nigerian security
personnel are joining three batches of their colleagues who had earlier
left for Russia for the training earlier this year.
It was gathered that the group would be in Russia for four months
before they would return to Nigeria early next year to form a nucleus of
Special Forces brigade that is to be set up by Nigerian armed forces
and other security forces.
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