After more than five years, President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked his widely criticised military chiefs. Replaced are Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar and Chief of. Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On January 26, he named Major General Lucky\nIrabor as Chief of Defence Staff, Major General I. Attahiru as Chief of Army\nStaff, Rear Admiral A.Z. Gambo as Chief of Naval Staff and Air Vice Marshal\nI.O. Amao as Chief of Air Staff. These nominations are coming long after\nseveral calls for the sack or resignation of the immediate past military\nservice chiefs, who were appointed in 2015, as they were long overdue to retire.\nWith heightened insecurity in the country and no effective strategy in sight to\narrest the situation, legislators, organisations and Nigerians from all\nquarters had urged President Buhari to sack the leadership of the military and\nreplace them. Rather than do so, the Presidency continued to claim that Nigeria\nwas winning the war against insurgency. Under the former service chiefs, criminality\nrose to an all-time high, with multiple reports of banditry, kidnapping, murder\nand all kinds of heinous crimes, including the killing of farmers in Zambari,\nZamfara State and the abduction of schoolboys in Kankara, Katsina State, occurring\nweeks apart towards the end of 2020. Despite Nigerians\u2019 criticism of the\nconduct of the military and worsening insecurity, President Buhari did not heed\nthe calls to rejig the leadership of the military until now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The nominees were decorated by their\npredecessors and subsequently assumed office on Friday, January 29, following\nhandover ceremonies conducted by the various military services. The Senate is\nexpected to consider President Buhari\u2019s correspondence, seeking confirmation of\nthe nominees as military service chiefs, upon the National Assembly\u2019s\nresumption on February 9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While several observers see this as a welcome\ndevelopment, others perceive the move as lacking momentum, as it is coming\nafter the country has suffered severe damages from criminal elements, with many\nlives lost and others maimed and traumatised. Nonetheless, Nigerians can only\nremain hopeful that the new leadership of the Armed Forces will make positive\nimpact. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After more than five years, President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked his widely criticised military chiefs. Replaced are Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar and Chief of. Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas. On January 26, he named Major General […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[204,205],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-at-long-last","tag-buhari-sacks-new-service-chiefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","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=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}