Army Commences Inter-Brigade
Army Commences Inter-Brigade Sports
Competition
The General Officer Commanding 6 Division, Nigerian Army (NA)
and Land Component Commander (LCC) Joint Task Force Operation Delta
Safe (JTF OPDS), Maj Gen Jamil Sarham has on behalf of the Chief of
Army Staff Lt Gen Tukur Yusufu Buratai formally declared opened the
2019, 6 Division Inter-Brigades Sports Competition.
The ceremony took place at the 6 Division Sports Ground in Port
Harcourt Barracks, Rivers State, heralds several sporting
activities including Football, Volleyball, Basket ball and
Tug-of-War between the various formations and units under the
Division. The event is an annual activity in the NA Calendar and
will last from Monday 24th to Friday 28th of June 2019.
At the occasion to declare the competition opened, the GOC was
represented by the Chief of Staff (COS), Headquarters 6 Division,
Brig Gen Olatokumbo Bello described the event as a landmark that
would bring together both officers and soldiers from various
formations and units under the Division. He expressed the hope that
the competition would also serve as an avenue to promote mutual
cooperation and comradeship amongst the participants.
He emphasised that, training and retraining of personnel in the
NA remain pivotal in achieving the required regimentation,
professional responsiveness and maintaining combat efficiency
needed to tackle the various security challenges facing the Nation
in line with the vision of the COAS which is -“To have a
Professionally Responsive NA in the discharge of its Constitutional
Roles”.
The GOC reiterated the belief that a well trained personnel
would effectively command men and equipment placed under command to
achieve the best results. He charged the participants to see the
competition as an important professional exercise, urging them to
take advantage of the opportunity to enhance their level of
alertness and overall professional standing.
He enjoined them to participate actively and give the
competition all the seriousness it deserves while further urging
them to imbibe the spirit of sportsmanship, fair-play and esprit
de-corps throughout the period of the competition.
AMINU ILIYASU
Deputy Director Public Relations 6 Division