Peacekeeping: Liberia plans to Immortalize Nigerian Army Officers

The Nigerian Army (NA), whose officers and troops made the ultimate sacrifice while participating in peacekeeping operations in Liberia, is due to be memorialized in Liberia.

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• The news broke when Liberia’s Armed Forces paid a courtesy call to Nigeria’s COAS  at Army Headquarters in Abuja
• Liberia’s seventeen years of largely peaceful living were made possible by the sacrifices made by the Nigerian military
• Liberia to receive the assistance required to ensure the integrity of the nation from the Nigerian Armed Forces

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Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, the director of public relations for the Nigerian Army, said this in a statement.

This information was provided on Friday, July 15, 2022, by Major General Prince Charles Johnson III, Chief of Staff (COS), Armed Forces of Liberia, during a courtesy call on Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Nigeria, at Army Headquarters in Abuja.

The COS expressed the gratitude of the Liberian Armed Forces for the sacrifices made by Nigerian soldiers for the Liberian people in order to bring about peace during the country’s internal strife.

He praised the Nigerian Army for the technical assistance provided by the ECOWAS support team, which he claimed helped to establish a new Armed Forces of Liberia.

The head of the Liberian armed forces advocated for increased bilateral and international cooperation in the field of training.

Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), responded and said that in carrying out its constitutional responsibilities, the NA will continue to draw on the knowledge it has gained through peacekeeping operations in Liberia.

The NA has a long-standing relationship with the Liberians and would continue to extend the warm hands of friendship to the Armed Forces of Liberia, he promised the visiting Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of Liberia, ongoing support, particularly in the field of capacity development.

The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Liberia and the COAS’s exchanging of mementoes was the highlight of the trip.

The Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, and the Service Chiefs received a courtesy visit from the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Liberia in Abuja.

He claimed that Liberia’s seventeen years of largely peaceful living were made possible by the sacrifices made by the Nigerian military during peacekeeping.

According to Major General Prince Johnson, he arrived to make use of the Armed Forces of Nigeria’s knowledge of how to address current problems.

General Lucky Irabor, the Chief of Defence Staff of Nigeria, praised Liberia’s efforts to address security issues not only within its own borders but also in the wider West African area.

According to General Irabor, Liberia would receive the assistance required to ensure the integrity of the nation from the Nigerian Armed Forces.

General Johnson announced that the Liberian Military would commemorate the Nigerian fallen heroes who fought from 1989 to 1997 in the Liberian Civil War (during peacekeeping), which resulted in the involvement of the Economic Community of the West African States and the United Nations and resulted in the death of approximately 200,000 people.

Rear Admiral Sa’idu Garba, Chief of Policy and Plans Naval Headquarters, who was accompanying the Liberian Chief of Naval Staff during his visit to Nigeria, stated that [quotation name=’Rear Admiral Sa’idu Garba’] “the point that Liberia made in Nigeria solving piracy will enable African countries to patrol the Gulf of Guinea among other benefits.”[/quotation]

Recall that in October 1990, Nigeria provided 5,000 troops—or 84 per cent—of the 6,000 dispatched to Liberia during the country’s first civil war, which had started in 1989.

Nigeria alone provided 10,000, or nearly 83 per cent, of the 12,000 ECOMOG troops stationed in 1991, 1992, and 1993.

The UN Mission in Liberia (UNSMIL), which was established in September 2003 to supervise a ceasefire agreement in Liberia following the resignation of President Charles Taylor and the end of the second Liberian Civil War, also sent Nigerian peacekeepers to the country.

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