By President Muhammadu Buhari is set to hit the air again. He has been scheduled to travel to Sambisa Forest for the Nigerian Army Small Arms Championship nASAC 2017.
This was disclosed during the press briefing on Friday in Maiduguri and addressed by Nigerian Army Cheif of Training and Operations, Major-General David Amadu.
Buhari, the Commander-in-Chief is expected to visit the former enclave of the dreaded insurgents, boko haram and declare open the 2017 Championship.
The Military had earlier declared the forest as the proposed site for Military Institution after building roads linking it to major roads and kick-starting the new status of Sambisa Forest with the hosting of the annual Small Arms Competition.
The Competition which will be hosted by President Buhari will start on Monday. Billed to accompany him to the ceremony are all the CService Chiefs and Minister of Defence, Alhaji Mansur Ali.
According to Amadu, the championship which drew to a close on Friday, has lined up a chain of activities which would include medical outreach to Bama, Konduga, and Magumeri IDPs camps, educational training for Army Education Corps in Maiduguri , security awareness meetings with the traditional rulers and distribution of relief materials to IDPs within Maiduguri and surrounding towns.
He added that the championship was aimed at testing and shaping the intelligence and professional capacity of the Nigerian Army officers and soldiers as well as equipment.
The insurgency group, who at the peak of it’s siege on the nation occupied towns in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, used Sambisa forest, especially the mountainous region of Gwoza near the Cameroon border, as shelter and strategic headquarters until they were pushed out by the military on Christmas eve, last year.
