SACK ALL SERVICE CHIEFS IMMEDIATELY – YORUBA COUNCIL OF ELDERS TO BUHARI
SACK ALL SERVICE CHIEFS IMMEDIATELY – YORUBA COUNCIL OF ELDERS TO BUHARI
PIC.1. FROM LEFT: CHIEF OF THE AIR STAFF, AIR-MARSHAL SADIQUE
ABUBARKAR; CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF, GEN. ABAYOMI GABRIEL OLONISAKIN; VICE
PRESIDENT YEMI OSINBAJO; PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI; CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF,
LT-GEN. TUKUR BURATAI AND CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF, VICE-ADMIRAL IBOK ETE EKWE
IBAS, AT THE DECORATION OF SERVICE CHIEFS AT THE PRESIDENTIAL VILLA IN ABUJA ON
THURSDAY (13/8/15). 5926/13/8/2015/ICE/CH/NAN
The
Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to
immediately sack all the service chiefs.
The
council hinged their reason on the service chiefs’ alleged inability to
effectively curtail killings in different parts of the country.
According
to them, the recurrent massacre in Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa states have lent
credence to the accusation by a former Minister of Defence, Theophilus Danjuma,
that the military was colluding with killer herdsmen to embark on ethnic
cleansing.
The YCE
stated this in a communique issued after their Expanded National Executive
meeting held in Ado Ekiti on Thursday in honour of its late President, Chief
Idowu Sofola (SAN), who died last Friday.
The
communique was signed by the YCE Secretary-General, Dr. Kunle Olajide and the
chairman of the Ekiti Council of Elders, Prof. J. O. Oluwasanmi.
It partly
read, “The Yoruba Council of Elders calls on Mr. President to relieve the
present security chiefs, some of whom are already overdue for retirement of
their position and immediately reconfigure the security architecture of the
country to reflect the federal character clause in our constitution.
“Most
Nigerians have lost confidence in the security chiefs especially the
Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, whom the President has publicly
acknowledged as disobeying his instructions.
“The
President must shed and toga of Baba go-slow and act promptly on this matter to
once again inspire the confidence of Nigerians in his administration.
“A
military which publicly claimed to be neutral where the law of the land is
being violated and innocent citizens are mindlessly murdered by armed herdsmen
is definitely partisan and can no longer be trusted to protect all Nigerians.”
