General Tukur Buratai, Chief of
General Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff
NAVMC: Buratai Commissions Nigerian Army Vehicle
Manufacturing Company
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General TY Buratai, today,
Saturday 26th January 2019, commissioned the newly established
Nigerian Army Vehicles Manufacturing Company (NAVMC) and the
take-off of the production of the prototype of the light and heavy
infantry vehicles at Rigachikun, Kaduna State.
The event also featured facility tour of Nigerian Army Vehicles
Manufacturing Company production line, Which include NAC-V
production line, B vehicles assembly plant, Fitter machine plant,
Engine overhaul shop, Engine testing bay, Fabrication, Painting and
Spray shop as well as Foundary and Metal Smith shop. The COAS also
commissioned some refurbished A and B vehicles and other equipment
resuscitated by the NAVMC.
Present at the historic occasion were Honourable Yusuf Zailani,
Majority leader, Kaduna State House of Assembly, the Chairman,
North East Development Commission and former Commandant of the
Nigerian Defence Academy, Major General PC Tarfa (rtd), the current
Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy, Major General Adeniyi
Oyebade, Principal Staff Officers from Defence and Army
Headquarters, Corps Commanders and Commandants of the various
Nigerian Army training institutions and the representative of the
Emir of Zazzau and other dignitaries, as well as officers and
soldiers, community leaders and members of Rigachikun community. In
fact, the visibly elated members of the host community, instantly
decided to crown the Chief of Army Staff as the Garkuwan
Rigachikun.
SANI KUKASHEKA USMAN
Brigadier General
Director Army Public Relations