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Tinubu orders immediate payment of deceased soldiers insurance
President Bola Tinubu has directed the immediate payment of insurance entitlements to families of officers and soldiers who died while fighting to defend the nation.
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, at the opening of the combined second and third quarters COAS conference, on Tuesday, in Abuja, noted that the welfare of troops and their families was of paramount importance, and pledged to consolidate all existing welfare arrangements to enhance the well-being of troops and their families to keep them focused on their tasks.
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The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, accordingly, declared: “In addition to providing befitting living quarters for our personnel, we shall ensure the newly introduced ‘Affordable Home Ownership Option for All Soldiers Scheme’ designed to provide affordable and high-quality post-service homes for our soldiers work.
“We shall also ensure that our injured warriors get the best medical care and continue to support the widows and next-of-kin of our fallen heroes”.
Read full Statement below.
Tinubu orders immediate payment of deceased soldiers insurance
Some stakeholders in the Nigerian polity attributed the Army Insurance payment to survivors of demised soldiers by President Tinubu to the raging phobia of military coup in Africa.
Apparently, while presidents in some African countries, like Cameroon and Rwanda, resorted to retirement of certain senior army officers, and reorganizing the military, President Tinubu opted for improving the welfare of soldiers in Nigeria.
The president, accordingly, reawaken the dormant insurance policy for the Nigerian Armed Forces.
Many hope that same insurance policy being implemented in the Army would to extended to the Nigerian Police Force, as well.
Tinubu could be on the path to re-engineer the the Nigerian Army so as to strengthen the fight against Boko Haram, ISWAP terrorism, bandits and kidnappers.
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