This, he blamed on the absence of the soldiers at the barracks, who are away on official assignment outside the barracks to protect and defend the country.
The Chief of Army Staff stated this in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, at the 2021 Conference of Nigerian Armed Forces Catholic Chaplains.
Represented by the Commandant of the Nigeria Army School of Military Engineering, Brigadier General Mark Mamman, the COAS said that the soldiers were always away from their families while doing their assigned duties to protect the nation’s citizens from external and internal forces.
