Nigeria Army move special forces training school to Buni Yadi

This was disclosed by the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai while addressing troops at the training school on Saturday, July 30. 

According to Buratai, the decision to move its Special Forces Training School to Buni Yadi, is because of the strategic location of the town in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgents.

“We know the importance of this place – Buni Yadi. This is the route they (insurgents) passed through to other parts of the North East and even Plateau in the North Central. 

“It is better for us to have dominated and taken over the place,” the Lieutenant General said while assuring the troops of their welfare and logistics need, including required equipment to prosecute the war. 

Buni Yadi, the headquarters of Gujba local government area, was controlled by the Boko Haram for several months before it was recaptured by the military in March 2015. It is the town where 59 schoolboys were murdered by the Boko Haram as they slept in their dormitories at a Federal Government College in 2014. 

The Special Forces was created at the peak of the insurgency and is considered one Nigerian Army’s most effective fighting unit.