By John Owen Nwachukwu President Muhammadu Buhari has been told to sack all the Service Chiefs as well as the Director-General of the ...
By John Owen Nwachukwu
President Muhammadu Buhari has been told to sack all the
Service Chiefs as well as the Director-General of the Department of State
Services, the Inspector-General of Police and the National Security Adviser
Major General Babagana Monguno(rtd) with immediate effect.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA made
the call while accusing the service chiefs of gross incompetence and crass
dereliction of duty.
The rights group pointed out that Buhari ought to stop his
frequent lamentations over his failings in the area of security as that is not
why he was elected but to take immediate and comprehensive measures to dismiss
any or all of his service chiefs since they have allegedly manifested through
their actions and inactions that they do not have what it takes to defeat
terrorists.
HURIWA was reacting to the massacre of soldiers in Shiroro
Dam, a strategic national asset by the Islamic terrorists known as Boko haram
even as the group accused the President of abandoning his duty to gallivant and
globetrot.
The group recalled that the Nigerian Army had confirmed the
attack in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State by bandits who killed
scores of security operatives, including soldiers and policemen.
Reports had said at least 43 people, including 30 soldiers
and seven mobile police personnel and civilians were killed when the armed men
stormed the gold mining site.
They also abducted several Chinese nationals.
HURIWA, however, said the ”Army should cover its face in
shame since it is unable to defend the territorial integrity of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, even when the defence sector collects the giant
allocations every year from the federally released annual budgets and despite
the fact that the government made claims of buying equipment from all over the
World, the Islamists are being allowed to crush a trained and professional Army
such as the Nigeria Army just as the Rights group said it is now certain that
some saboteurs within the Army may be the moles selling the Country out to Jihadists.”
HURIWA has therefore “called for the sack of all the service
chiefs and is asking Nigerians not to die in silence but to stage protests to
demand action from President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the widening insecurity
in Nigeria.”
The group said it is “unfortunate that Nigerians are letting
the government abandon its statutory duty to the citizens but failing to
actively protest the heightened state of insecurity in the country and demand
the dismissal of compromised security Chiefs and the National Security Adviser
who has absolutely nothing to offer.”
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