The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has thrown its weight behind the National Assembly’s call for the removal of the current service chiefs, saying their continued retention was becoming a national and international embarrassment to the nation.
In a statement issued by the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo which was made available to Tribune Online in Enugu on Thursday said that the response by the Senior Special Adviser to the President, Femi Adesina, to the call was unacceptable and an insult to Nigerians who are receiving the brunt of the attacks and killings.
Chief Nwodo wondered why the Federal Government has remained intransigent on the service chiefs and refused to save the nation from undeserved calamity.
Reacting to the recent killing of Nigerian Army officers and soldiers by bandits in Katsina and five aid workers by Boko Haram, the President General regretted that innocent lives of young Nigerian men and women and even foreigners were being wasted daily due to the refusal of the Federal Government to do the needful.
ALSO READ: Ebonyi LG polls: PDP chairman warns members against sabotage
The pan-Igbo group asked what was special about the current service chiefs that made them indispensable, adding that it was unconstitutional to keep a worker in service long after he is due for retirement.
Chief Nwodo observed that the continued retention of the service chiefs went against the grain of military service which he said breeds bad blood among the officers whose careers are stunted by the action.
The Ohanaeze President General said that it was not surprising that there are overt dissensions in the military with soldiers resigning in their numbers due to dissatisfaction and disaffection coupled with the alleged corruption in the force.
Chief Nwodo remarked, “the situation now suggests that there is more to their retention than the interest of the country which the Federal government needs to explain to Nigerians.”
YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday read on the floor of the Senate, the 2020 – 2021 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper from President Muhammadu Buhari… Read Full Story
The Presidency has threatened to release tapes of meetings between the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore and individuals led by late Ismaila Isa Funtua, who tried to broker his release from detention… Read Full Story
The Oyo State government has approved the cancellation of the third term for the 2019/2020 session with promotion of students to be based on their academic performance of the first and second terms… Read Full Story
The Minister for Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, on Tuesday, shocked the members of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) when he alleged that the suspended MD awarded about 332 different contracts worth about N4.448 billion in one day… Read Full Story
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did not wait and did not sit on the sidelines when the issue of the Covid-19 pandemic started all over the world. We had what we call end of tenure elections that are constitutionally circumscribed. Based on that, we decided that it was in the interest of the… Read Full Story
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A. Adamu, on Tuesday ordered the posting of the following commissioners of police to four states as follows… Read Full Story
AT inception in 2001, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) had a 10–point mandate. The summation of the mandate is the need to restore the dignity of the people of the region that lays the golden egg, crude oil, Nigeria’s economic mainstay. It will be recalled that the commission was subsumed under… Read Full Story
Two thousand one hundred and eleven delegates will decide the fate of the eight aspirants, seeking the ticket of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, to contest the gubernatorial election against the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Rotimi Akeredolu and others… Read Full Story
TOLULOPE Oluwatoyin Sarah Arotile had a noble ambition: to fly combat aircraft. By the time she died on July 14, she had not only made a reality of her ambition but had done so excellently well. To say the least, the entire nation is in pangs at the manner of her passing. In a terse statement… Read Full Story
Senator representing Borno South has explained why he declined from demanding for resignation or sack of Service Chiefs in his original motion presented on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday… Read Full Story
Ogun State House of Assembly has again convened a meeting of concerned stakeholders, including government…
IT seems that as society gets increasingly dark and amoral following the collapse of…
Fringe Voices Development Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation, with support from the Nigerian Women Trust Fund…
According to him, strategic management is now a fundamental part of academic and practical pursuits,…
The 34th Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, CP Ikioye Orutugu, has been named the…
Participants of the Executive Intelligence Management Course (EIMC) 18 from the National Institute for Security…
This website uses cookies.