Insecurity: Pressure Mounting On Buhari To Sack Nigeria’s Service Chiefs

Our Correspondent has gathered that there is serious pressure on Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, to axe his service Chief’s due to the growing insecurity in the country.Recall that Nigeria, particularly the northern part, has been a theater of horror and Killings as bandits, kidnappers, rapists and terrorists have continued to mount sustained attacks in the country, killing hundreds of citizens and rendering thousands homeless.In fact, the five years of President Buhari has seen what seems like unabated Killings and kidnappings never witnessed in the country’s history, warranting Nigerians, including members of the National Assembly, to ask the president to effect change in the top echelon of Nigeria’s security architecture.

Speaking to our man in Nigeria, a member of a Security Committee of the Senate, who pleaded anonymity, while answering questions on their demand for Buhari to change the service chiefs, explained that the president had been under pressure to do the needful.”I can tell you as someone in the know that Buhari will do the needful and change the service chiefs because they have failed the country.”Right now, there is a big pressure on him to change them because the traditional and religious leaders in the north are feeling the heat.
“One of them said to me that they let Buhari know that he might be courting revolt if he continues to work with the current service chiefs.

“I know he listens to them, Nigerians may see the change very soon,” revealed the federal lawmaker. However, it has been gathered that the president has given the top military officers ultimatum to reverse the deteriorating security situation. One of the presidential aides, Garba Shehu, was quoted as saying that in the aftermath of the latest attack in the president’s home state of Katsina, Buhari said he expected a change for better of the poor security issues in the country with the next one month.”It is sad how innocent Nigerians are daily killed and the president is highly worried.

“As a passionate leader, he has demanded that within a month the Killings and other crimes should stop.”This is a task for the service chiefs to respond urgently because it is already an emergency situation,” he was quoted as saying by a popular medium in Nigeria.

The service chiefs are Lt General Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff; General Abayomi Olonisakin, Chief of Defence Staff; Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, Chief of Air Staff; Rear Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, Chief of Defence Staff, and Mohammed Adamu, the Inspector General of Police.