Olonisakin, who spoke at Defence Headquarters in Abuja while handing over the mantle of leadership to his successor, Maj-Gen. Lucky Irabor, said in terms of organisation, some directorates of the DHQ were upgraded to departments to make them more impactful.
According to him, the department included the former Directorate of Civil-Military Affairs, which had been upgraded to a department to scale up the non-kinetic operation.
“We all could recall that at the inception of the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Boko Haram terrorist group held sway in parts of North-East Nigeria, where the sect occupied 20 out of 26 Local Government Areas in Borno State.
Here are brief profiles of the new service chiefs:
Major General L.E.O. Irabor
Chief of Defence Staff Maj-Gen Leo Irabor
Irabor hails from Agbor in Delta state and he’s a member 34 Regular Course of the Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA).
He’s an alumnus of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife as he also holds two Masters Degrees from the University of Ghana, Accra, and Bangladesh University of Professionals, Dhaka.
Before his appointment as the new CDS, Major General Irabor was Chief of Training and Operations, Defence headquarters.
The General was formerly the Theatre Commander of OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE, North-East Nigeria as well as Force Commander Multinational Joint Task Force in the Lake Chad Basin Area. The operations focused on Counter-Terrorism/Counterinsurgency.
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