Leadership (Abuja)
19 November 2008
Brig. Gen. Muraina Raji, the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 33 Artillery Brigade, Bauchi, has threatened to throw out any military officer found misusing the facilities in the barracks.
The GOC spoke while inspecting rehabilitated projects in the barracks carried out by the Presidential Committee on Barracks Rehabilitation (PCBR).
"This barracks is wearing a new look, courtesy of the PCBR and we are happy about the good works of the Committee.
"I have warned the soilders, both officers and the rank and files that anyone found misusing the renovated quarters and other facilities will be thrown out," he said.
"We have seen instances where you will enter some officers' quarters and the entire ceiling will be blackened with smoke. We will no longer tolerate this," he added.
Raji noted that the barracks was one of the worst military quarters before the intervention of the PCBR .
"Before now, the roof of the office complex housing my office was leaking and you will see a Lieutenant Colonel personally mending his office table and chair to prevent his uniform from getting torn. It was as bad as that," he said.
He appealed to the PCBR chairman, Alhaji Sani Gidado, to look into the problems of electrical transformers and water supply in the barracks.
"The PHCN has complained severally that the four transformers in the barracks are obsolete and they
need to be replaced.
"We also need a mini- water works to solve the problem of our men going outside the barracks to look for portable water," he said.
In his response, Gidado said that current focus focus of the PCBR was residential building, staff schools and health clinics, saying that water and electricity would get atention in the 2009 fiscal year.
In a related development, Lt. Col. Kayode Ogundele, the Chief of Staff, Gibson Jallo Army Cantonment, Yola, has appealed for the deployment of skilled teachers to the staff school in the barracks.
Ogundele made the appeal on Sunday during the inspection of classrooms blocks built for the Command Primary School by the PCBR.
"Besides the re-construction of the entire school, the PCBR is installing computers and other learning aids for the pupils.
"However, it is not enough to build and equip the schools and leave them to be manned by unskilled teachers as we have on ground now.(NAN)
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