Abuja – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, says the command and leadership in the military must align to tackle new security threats and challenges.
Buratai, represented by the Army’s Chief of Police and Plans (COPP) Maj.-Gen. Jack Ogunewe, stated this in Abuja on Thursday at the opening of a seminar on Command and Leadership Responsibilities.
He said: “Based on contemporary security challenges, it is pertinent to say that leadership, management and command – the officer’s trinity – will have to change in the 21st century through the acquisition of new skills and attributes.”
He said this could only be achieved through a robust and continuous training and re-training, noting that every organisation must develop command and leadership qualities within its ranks.
Buratai said the seminar was timely and would ensure that burden of command and leadership with its attendant legal implications were addressed to ensure an effective and efficient force.
He added that contemporary global security environment efforts were increasingly being focused on improving the command and leadership potentials of security operatives to deal with new and emerging threats.
Buratai said this was based on the realisation that threats to national security since the dawn of the 21st century were essentially non-traditional, asymmetrical, multi-dimensional and required agile security architecture.
The architecture, he said, must be driven by highly trained and highly motivated commanders capable of dealing with, anticipating and pre-empting diverse threats to national security.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that heads of military formations, units and commanders from sister services and agencies attended the seminar. (NAN)
