Sack Buratai and other service chiefs now – Yoruba elders demand
Sack Buratai and other service chiefs now –
Yoruba elders demand
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.”
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