20 generals may go as Buhari replaces Buratai, service chiefs

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No fewer than 20 members of courses 34 and 35 may proceed on retirement as the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , on Tuesday removed service chiefs and appointed a new set of officers to repl

ace them.

“Those involved are the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar. It was also learnt that some of them might be posted to the defence headquarters, where they would not be reporting to the chief of army staff.

Buratai had in 2017 removed Attahiru as Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole following a spate of attacks by the insurgents, including the killing of at least 50 people in a mosque. A month after, a group of geologists and technologists from the University of Maiduguri were ambushed by Boko Haram insurgents at Magumeri area of Borno state. About 12 soldiers who escorted the academics were reportedly killed.

Attahiru had said, “Suffice to note that during the operations, 5 high profile BHT commanders and many foot soldiers were killed, while many other members of the group surrendered owing to the effectiveness of the operations,” Attahiru said in December 2017. But the Presidency has repeatedly dismissed such calls, saying it was the President’s prerogative to appoint and remove heads of the country’s armed forces.

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe said, “The appointment of new service chiefs is better late than never. We have been calling for this for a long time now.On his part, Opeyemi Bamidele said, “This is just one out of a number of steps needed to be taken, to tackle insecurity which is making life difficult for Nigerians.

Wike in a statement by the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, said although the appointment was belated, it showed the President was listening to calls for their sack.nation’s security architecture which has suffered tremendous setback in the last five years. Dogo said, “The retirement of the service chiefs is overdue. While I commend the President for the action because they have done their best, we hope that the situation they left behind in terms of insecurity will not continue.

 

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