The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali on Monday inaugurated the vehicles and also performed the ground-breaking ceremony for a new army cantonment known as Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment at Giri, on the Airport Road in Abuja.
In a statement the Chief of Army of
Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai said the vehicles were locally designed and
fabricated by personnel of the Nigerian army after extensive research.
Buratai said that the platform would further
serve as force motivation as efforts were being stepped up to clear remnants of
Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East.
According to him, the vehicles are
one of the platforms used for fire power demonstration during the 2017 Nigerian
Army Small Arms Championship (NASAC) earlier held at the Sambisa forest in
Borno.
He further noted that the vehicles could be used for long range
battles as General Purpose Machine Gun – GPMG and other caliber of weapons
could be mounted on them.
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