The COAS who spoke through the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian Army Welfare Limited and Guarantee and Chairman of NAWIS (BOD) Major General Bitrus Kwaji emphasised that welfare and training are the motivating factors for any military force.
The GMD who in his opening remarks stated that the NA will continue to provide the best welfare for its officers and men to achieve the desired vision and mission of the COAS. He further said that this meeting has become necessary for us to meet on quarterly basis because of NAWIS direct involvement in the operation that is currently ongoing in the North East, where the needs to review the operations and activities of the NAWIS become very important.
NAWIS involves directly because we have to make payments immediately to the families of the decease personnel that unfortunately been victims of ongoing operation against the terrorists. General Kwaji therefore urged the members to come up with more proactive measures in order to re-strategies to meet the challenges. He also advised the members to be open-minded while deliberating in this conference.
Earlier, the Managing Director of the NAWIS Colonel SS Jiya informed the conference that the agency has worked assiduously to improve the existing welfare services in the NA, which included the reduction of the suffering of officers, soldiers and their dependants in the events of sudden death, killed in action, retirement and permanent disabilities, as well as motivating services personnel in the discharge of their duties, especially those serving in the operation in the North East against the terrorists.
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