President Muhammadu Buhari has been strongly urged to fire all service chiefs considering the consistent worsening state of insecurity in the country.
The call emerged from a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Sunny Onuesoke, opined that the Nigeria service chiefs should be fired since they were overdue for retirement.
Besides, he described the service chiefs as non-performing evidenced by the state of insecurity in the country.
He, therefore, urged Buhari to fire them and give way for others with fresh ideas on how to combat the rate of insecurity in the country.
“Gabriel Olonisakin, Chief of Defence Staff, Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff, Sadique Abubakar, Chief of Air Staff, and Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, Chief of Naval Staff, have one thing in common,
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“They are all due for retirement having spent more than 35 years in military service. If that be the case, they should give way for younger officers with fresh ideas,” Onuesoke said in a statement on Wednesday.
The PDP Chieftain, who advised President Buhari to urgently change tactics and personnel in order to win the war against rising threats to the lives of Nigerians, maintained that the retention of the service chiefs had affected the morale of service personnel.
He added that the counter-insurgency war was not recording progress because there were no new ideas.
“The current service chiefs were appointed on July 13, 2015. According to the rules of the armed forces, the tenure of service chiefs is two years, after which the president could extend it provided the affected officer has not attained the mandatory retirement age of 60.
“The trio of Olonisakin, Abubakar and Ete-Ibas are long overdue for retirement going by their years of service and their age, but President Buhari approved an extension of their tenures. It is not clear for how long this current extension will last,” he stated.
Onuesoke noted that the service chiefs had run out of ideas having tried their best in the last four years, adding that there is thus the need for fresh hands to pilot the affairs of the Nigeria military for better results.
He affirmed that the continued stay of the service chiefs has stagnated upward mobility of officers which had impacted their morale negatively.
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