GOCs Commit to Coopération and Synergy in Areas of Responsibility

General Officers Commanding (GOC) 82 and 6 Divisions have stated that they are committed to working together to improve security situtions in their areas of responsibility. 

They made the commitment when the General Officer Commanding 82 Division Nigerian Army Major General HT Dada led some commanders from his Division on a courtesy visit to the General Officer Commanding 6 Division Nigerian Army Major General Jamal Abdussalam, at Port Harcourt Barracks, Rivers State.

In a statement by the Acting Deputy Director

Army Public Relations, Lieutenant Colonel Iweha Ikedichi, the GOC 82 Division, said the need for cooperation couldn't have come at a better time than now owing to the activation of Operation UDOKA, targeted at the entire South Eastern States. 

Major General Dada further stated that the operation aims at check mating the activities of separatist group Indegenous People of Biafra and its teeth arm the Eastern Security Network. Considering that traces of the group's activities cut across the operational boundaries of both Divisions calls for cooperation.

Responding, the General Officer Commanding 6 Division Nigerian Army Major General Jamal Abdussalam thanked the GOC 82 Division for the visit. He described the relationship between 6 and 82 Divisions as that of siamese twins whose destinies are inter twined. 

Major General Jamal Abdussalam commended the vision and foresightedness of the Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja in Operation UDO KA noting that it would give the needed bite to the fight against separatist groups in the South Eastern region.

He pledged the commitment of the Division through the availability of all resources and platforms that would aid the operation. He noted that already the Division was in cooperation with 82 Division, noting that the visit would deepen it.

Highpoint of the visit was the exchange of souvenirs, group photographs, and a visit to the Division's mascot.