Edo State is not utilizing its quota in the Nigerian Army and the state need its sons and daughters to contribute to Nigeria’s national security, Amy Chief, Brig. Gen. Wiito Lucky Nzidu said during the week.
General Nzidi made this know when he led a team of senior army officers from the Army Headquarters on Sensitization and Advertisement Tour for Nigerian Army Regular Recruitment intake 87, to Edo Government House, Benin City.
His words: “Edo State is not utilizing its quota in the Nigerian Army; you need your sons and daughters to contribute to national security.
“Once there is Army recruitment, a quota is given to every state, if you are not filling your quota, I think something is wrong somewhere. I don’t want us to, in the very near future, begin to cry that we are marginalized in the Army whereas the problem is from us.”
Earlier, while intimating the Governor, represented by the Secretary to the state government, Barr Osarodion Ogie, on the purpose of their visit, Brig. Gen. Nzidu said, “Our Chief of Army Staff has sent me here.
“Other senior officers are in other geopolitical zones across the country doing this same sensitization and awareness campaign with the view to ensuring some of these selected States see the need and reason why they need to fill up their quota with their vibrant sons and daughters into the Nigerian Army. That is why we are here.”
