The chief of general staff of the Army, General de corps Lassina Doumbia, presented at the naval base Locodjro, the new voluntary redundancy plan soldiers who express the desire to withdraw from their military obligations and rejoin civilian life before the end of their active service.

“For this year, we have proposed a voluntary departure plan in two forms, in order to avoid this high rate of failure in terms of social and economic reintegration, as we are currently seeing. And, this hybrid program has been validated by the National Security Council ”, indicated Monday, May 31, 2021, General Doumbia, who was taking part in a military ceremony, in the presence of several army commands.

Continuing, he explained that the first bridge of this new plan for the voluntary departure of the military will be retraining. “Thus, 1000 non-commissioned officers will be authorized to leave the Army to join paramilitary bodies such as Civil Protection, Maritime and Port Affairs, Water and Forests and the Prison Guard (…) This device contained in the code of the military function allows military candidates for retraining to keep their salary in their new corps, ”he said.

According to the general, this new plan for the voluntary departure of the military is a pilot project of collaboration between administrations which will be initiated this year 2021 and which could be reissued if it is successful. This is why he invites those who will have the chance to benefit from it to be ambassadors of the rigor and probity which characterize the Armies.

As for the old voluntary departure program for the military, it will be maintained for those who wish it. For this year, according to the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the military will benefit from institutional support for the establishment of income-generating activities.

“Our objective is to prevent our brothers in arms from having voluntarily left the ranks in a precarious situation,” he concluded.

The first Law of Military Programming allowed 4,804 soldiers to leave the army and explore new challenges in civilian life. Unfortunately, very few were able to succeed in their reintegration, lamented the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.

Source: Agence Ivoirienne de presse