By Olayemi Esan
The Minister of Defence, Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi (rtd) has received the report of the 25 - man Implementation and Advisory Committee for the Reform of the ministry and the Armed Forces.
Special Assistant to the Minister on Media and Publicity, Mohammad Abdulkadri in a press statement said, General Magashi thanked the Maj. Gen. Alwali Kazir (rtd) led Committee for total adherence to the convening order that culminated into a big volume of workable document.
He assured that the recommendations in the document will be carefully perused and doggedly pursued as catalyst towards achieving the end state of improved service delivery and performance in the defence and security sector.
Chairman of the Committee, Maj. Gen. Kazir (rtd) said a total of seventy-two recommendations emanated from wide consultations with stakeholders, which took them seventy-five days of brainstorming on the gamunt areas requiring reformations in the military sector.
General Kazir placed it on record that members of the committee gave their very best by deploying their very rich experiences patriotically in the discharge of their national assignments without any atom of consideration for any pecuniary benefits.
This according to the former Chief of Army Staff, gave birth to the uninfluenced and unbiased recommendations that will expectedly and expediously impact on the national aspiration for improved security architecture.
He therefore thanked the Minister for the opportunity to chair a committee comprising of carefully selected serving and retired senior military officers and top technocrats.
The committee was inaugurated by the Minister of Defence on 28th September 2021 in fulfilling his promise to reposition the sector to meet contemporary internationally acceptable standard and best practice.
