Posted on: 06:53 Sat, 25 Mar 2017

The President of Nigeria has revealed the time he will visit Sambisa Forest that was once the enclave of dreaded Boko Haram terrorists.



President Muhammadu Buhari has been scheduled to visit Sambisa Forest which was once a former stronghold of the terrorist group, Boko Haram.

The President will be in Sambisa on Monday to declare open the Nigerian Army Small Arms Championship, NASAC 2017.

The military had subsequently declared the former game reserve as a proposed site for military institution, building roads into it and kick-starting the new status of Sambisa Forest with the hosting of the annual Small Arms Competition.
According to Punch, the competition which starts on Monday is expected to be hosted by President Muhammadu Buhari.

He is to be accompanied by the Minister of Defense, Alhaji Mansur Ali and Service Chiefs, Chief of Defense Staff, General Gabriel Olanisakin, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Abubakar Sadique and Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Obet Ebas.

The Chief of Training and Operations, Army, Major General David Amadu, during a press briefing on Friday in Maiduguri to kick-start the NASAC 2017 championship, said the championship would be formally declared open by the President on Monday, March 27, 2017.

He said the championship which drew to a close on Friday, March 31st 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.

Amadu 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.