Sambisa to become Training Ground For Nigeria Army,Says Chief of Army Staff

Lt Gen Tukur Buratai,the Chief of Army Staff has said that from 2017, the Nigerian Army will begin to use Sambisa Forest as one of its training grounds.
The Army Chief said  this while speaking to troops in Damasak, Borno state yesterday. The Army Chief said that :

     “We are also opening up roads to the forest – Sambisa, as well as Alagarno forest. This Sambisa forest is going to be one of our training grounds. Next year, 2017, I have already directed that we should conduct our Nigerian Army small arms championship in that forest. And we are going to useit also to test fire our fighting vehicles, as well as other key equipment and weapons that requires testing firing whenever we want to induct new weapon and equipment into the Nigerian army inventory. It will afford us very good ground for basictactics and indeed advance tactics, including but notlimited to tactics at the Platoon, company, battalion, Brigade and even division levels. We are going to make it more robust to make sure that these criminals do not come back to that forest again".