{"id":1534,"date":"2020-06-23T14:39:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2020-06-23T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:39:52","slug":"again-buhari-warns-security-chiefs-to-become-competent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/again-buhari-warns-security-chiefs-to-become-competent\/","title":{"rendered":"Again, Buhari Warns Security Chiefs to Become Competent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, June 18, after meeting with heads of security agencies in the country<strong>, <\/strong>including the Service Chiefs and the Inspector General of Police has warned them to ship out. After several years of citizens\u2019 complaints against the Service Chiefs and their inability to combat terrorism, banditry, as well as failure to protect the territorial integrity of the country, and having kept them in office way beyond their statutory tenures and retirement age, Buhari has again warned them to live up to their responsibilities. Nigerians have also complained that the impact of resources put into the military has not shown commensurate yield and that insecurity continues to pervade the country following from the activities of bandits, terrorists, herdsmen, marauders and several other criminal gangs. The Senate President, Speaker of House of Representatives, members of the National Assembly, governors, citizen groups and associations have complained and protested the incompetence and failures of security services and their leadership, without any responsible action being taken by the President who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Inaction has of course, seen the country tethering on the brink of collapse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the President\u2019s home State, Katsina, protesters\ntook to the streets in their numbers to express their displeasure over the\nincessant killings and President Buhari\u2019s several directives on security issues\nand condemnation of attacks, which have not improved the security situation in\nany way. However, this resulted in the detention of the organiser of the\nprotest and several protesters, on the basis that they were violating the\nCOVID-19 regulation prohibiting large gatherings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European Union (EU) in a joint statement by the\nHigh Representative\/Vice President, Josep Borrell and Commissioner for Crisis\nManagement, Janez Lenarcic on June16, decried the death of over 160 persons in Northern\nNigeria since May 28, 2020 and the security threat posed to Nigeria by terrorism\nand other acts of violence. The statement also underscored increased\nhumanitarian needs in North East Nigeria, occasioned by conflict, food\ninsecurity and the COVID-19 pandemic. It further stressed that international\nhumanitarian law must be safeguarded and respected by all parties to the\nconflict in Nigeria and elsewhere; demanded that civilians and humanitarian\npersonnel should not be targeted, while unimpeded passage of humanitarian\nrelief should be facilitated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At President Buhari\u2019s meeting with security chiefs on\nJune 18, he was reported to have stated that their efforts to tackle insecurity\nwere not good enough, adding that further deterioration of the security\nsituation would no longer be tolerated, going forward. However, Nigerians\ncannot reasonably expect things to take a positive turn anytime soon, as this\nis not the first time the President is issuing such warnings to the security\nchiefs, who have overstayed their tenures in spite of the worsening security\nsituation in the country, without taking any concrete steps. The Senate\nPresident, Ahmed Lawan while expressing the National Assembly\u2019s readiness to\nreceive a supplementary budget to aid security agencies to tackle insecurity,\nstated that heads of agencies, particularly Service Chiefs will \u201cbe shown the\nway out if they fall short of expectations.\u201d It will be recalled that the\nNational Assembly had called for the sack of Service Chiefs. The claim by the National\nSecurity Adviser (NSA), Mohammed Monguno, that no Nigerian President has spent\nas much as President Buhari has spent on the purchase of arms further raises\nquestions of transparency and accountability within the military, as the\nfunds&nbsp; appropriated for security agencies\ndo not reflect any strategy to effectively tackle insecurity in the country. It\nwould seem that Nigerians have been left to their fate, as State governments\ngrapple to control the situation, with the Federal Government not taking enough\nsteps to address insecurity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, June 18, after meeting with heads of security agencies in the country, including the Service Chiefs and the Inspector General of Police has warned them to ship out. After several years of citizens\u2019 complaints against the Service Chiefs and their inability to combat terrorism, banditry, as well as failure to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[80,81],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-again","tag-buhari-warns-security-chiefs-to-become-competent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}