The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taofeek Lagbaja, has stated that Army enlistment procedures are based on applicant competency.
Lagbaja asserted this in Asaba, rejecting the idea that aspirants must have godfathers or ties to join the armed services.
Brigadier General Witto Nzidee, representing the Chief of Army Staff, urged Delta State youths aged 18 to 22 to participate in the ongoing Army recruiting operation to satisfy the state’s quota.
He said:
“The registration is online now, the portal is open. They should go, click and register, and I can assure that anyone that is fit to be in the army will be recruited.
“The notion that you need to know somebody before you come into the army is a wrong notion. I am a Brigadier General today in the Nigerian Army, I did not know anybody.”
Nzidee added that certain states in the Southeast and South-South regions of the country failed to reach their quotas in recent Army recruiting exercises, prompting the effort to urge young people in the state to register in the Nigerian Army’s 88th regular recruitment procedure.
He stated that it is necessary to raise awareness among the state government and Deltans that if they do not use their army quota, other states will.
“You can’t blame some of these young people, because they are not aware of it. That’s why we have come to create this awareness, imploring the best to join us as partners in progress and development of Delta State, and of course, the entire Nigeria,” he added.
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