About 400 Nigerian security personnel made up of members of the Armed Forces, Police and Department of State Services left Abuja Sunday evening for Russia where they are to undergo training as Special Forces to beef up the country’s fight against terrorism.
Vanguard gathered that the security personnel left the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in a chattered aircraft at about 5pm and were accompanied by Nigeria Security officers as well as Russian instructors who had been in the country to part of the initial selection process of the men and officers that would take part in the training.
This paper had exclusively reported that following the dithering of western Nations especially Britain and the United States of America to train Nigerian security personnel to confront the Boko Haram terrorist group, government decided to turn to Russia to meet some of its immediate security needs pending the resolution of the diplomatic difference amongst them.
Our correspondent gathered that the latest group of Nigerian security personnel are joining three batches of their colleagues who had earlier left for Russia for the training earlier this year.
The last group would be in Russia for four months before they return to Nigeria early next year to form a nucleus of Special Forces brigade that is to be set up by Nigerian armed forces and other security forces
Vanguard
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