The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, has charged operational level commanders to be professional while discharging their roles.

Yahaya was speaking to the commanders who are participants of Army War College Nigeria Course 6/2022 on Friday during a lecture at Abuja.

The COAS made the call in a lecture titled ‘My vision for the Nigerian Army’ at the college campus.

This was contained in a statement by the Director of Army Public Relations, Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement late Friday.

The statement partly read, “In an interactive session with the participants, Gen Yahaya stated that the platform provided an opportunity for him to share his thoughts on contemporary issues as well as listen to their views and lessons learnt during their course at the apex Army College.

“He pointed out that the lecture and interactive session will enhance the requisite knowledge required for operational level commanders of the Nigerian Army to effectively discharge assigned task

“The COAS added that the NA under his watch, will continue to build personnel capacity by placing a premium on the training of officers and soldiers.

“The Army Chief revealed that timely rotation of troops amongst other welfare packages in various theatres of operations, are being implemented to boost troops morale.”