The grand finale of the 2019 Army Day Celebration and Combat
Support Arms Training Week (ADC-CSATNW – my abbreviation) ended last week. Not
being a soldier, I will not pretend that I understood/understand in toto what
our Army did or did not do throughout the long week of the combat training and
re-training of our soldiers who have done the little or the much they have done
(and are still doing) for our country. No matter the havoc our Army chaps have
caused us we cannot say without qualms that they have not done more than
several good things for us and on behalf of us all.
Of course, as a boy who was reaching
adolescence and who was trying to understand his surroundings and his Nigerian
landscape, I did not have a glimpse of any Nigerian soldier until the early
nineteen-seventies when our civil war broke out. No. I think I am wrong.
