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Nigeria to help train new army

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    Nigeria is drumming up support to help train officers and men for the new Sierra Leonean army that will take over when ECOMOG withdraws later this year, PANA reported. Sierra Leone’s chief of defence staff, Brigadier General Maxwell Khobe, told PANA in Lagos that the country’s “entire military structure” had been destroyed. Khobe, a Nigerian who a was the former ECOMOG task force commander in Sierra Leone, was made Sierra Leone’s defence chief after ECOMOG reinstated Kabbah.

    Nigeria has voiced a desire to withdraw its ECOMOG contingent from Sierra Leone in May, when that country reverts to civil rule. However, Presidential Spokesman Septimus Kaikai told IRIN that Nigeria would not leave Sierra Leone totally defenceless.

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