Nigerian Army Relocates Special Forces Training School to Former Boko Haram Stronghold



The Nigerian Army has moved its Special Forces Training School to Buni Yadi, a town once controlled by Boko Haram in Yobe State.
Created at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency, the Special Forces is considered one Nigerian Army's most effective fighting unit.
While giving reasons why the training school was moved from Niger State to Buni Yadi, the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, said it was 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," he said while addressing troops at the training school on Saturday.
"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.



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