IBB’s CSO urges sack of service chiefs

A former Chief Security Officer for former Military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, Major Abubakar Adamu Muhammad, has asked the Federal Government to replace the service chiefs with young ones.

Muhammad said that would enable the government to have headway in the fight against the insurgency.

Addressing journalists in Kaduna yesterday, he said retaining the service chiefs would create schism among their juniors whose right to be promoted had been allegedly trampled upon.

He also said the insurgency had persisted because there was no synergy among the security agencies.

“If there’s that synergy between the army, the navy and air force this thing would have gone, but in Nigeria the three do not seem to agree and as long as there is this problem, it will continue.”

“If there’s synergy, it would have been stopped but it cannot be eliminated unless Nigeria looks outside towards Cameroun, Chad and Niger because they have more of the weapons coming from there.

“And unless the sponsors are found and dealt with, it would continue. Those who sponsor Boko Haram do not want Nigeria’s continued existence.

“How many times has the tenure of the chief of defense staff been extended? Those behind him are dreaming of becoming chief of defense staff and this can bring instability because all of them would be working towards succeeding him,” he said.

Muhammad also said Acting President Yemi Osinbajo saved the nation’s democracy by intervening in the recent invasion of the National Assembly by operatives of the Department of State Service.

He said the intervention by the acting president however redeemed the image of Nigeria at the international community and restored democracy in Nigeria.

He said: “It was the right thing to do and putting him under arrest was the best as he became so powerful and being so powerful can create a problem and that was what led to the sealing of the National Assembly in the first place.”