{"id":285033,"date":"2011-02-28T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/28\/army-for-democracy\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:15:00","slug":"army-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/28\/army-for-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Army for democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"58\">\n<p><span>Chief of Army Staff Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika has said that democracy has come to stay, advising officers and men to remain committed to its sustenance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Opening the First Commanding Officers Workshop at the Maxwell Khobe Cantonment, Rukuba, Plateau State, yesterday, Gen. Ihejirika pledged the commitment of the army to democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gen. Ihejirika said: \u201cThe workshop with the theme Repositioning the Commanding Officers to Meet Contemporary Challenges was designed to brainstorm on contemporary issues relating to their operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the COAS, \u201cThe challenge posed by internal security problems like ethno-religious upheavals, armed banditry, kidnapping and others has made the involvement of the army imperative and they must rise to the occasion \u2013 in line with their constitutional responsibilities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The General Officer Commanding Three Armoured Division, Major General Sunday Idoko, said the theme and topics were deliberately chosen in line with contemporary challenges and the dream of the Chief of Army Staff to reposition the force.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Go here to read the rest:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thenationonlineng.net\/web3\/news\/29470.html\" title=\"Army for democracy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Army for democracy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Chief of Army Staff Lt.-Gen. 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Opening the First Commanding Officers Workshop at the Maxwell Khobe Cantonment, Rukuba, Plateau State, yesterday, Gen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Army for democracy - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/28\/army-for-democracy\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Army for democracy - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Chief of Army Staff Lt.-Gen. 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