Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, expressed support for calls by members of the National Assembly to remove the nation’s service chiefs for their failure to tackle insecurity in the country. It stated that their continued stay in office in the face of growing insecurity, banditry and terrorism had become a national and international embarrassment to the nation. The group further wondered what was special about the current service chiefs that made them indispensable, adding that it was unconstitutional to keep people in service after they were due for retirement. He noted that the continued retention of the service chiefs went against the grains of military service, which he said, would breed bad blood among other officers whose career have been stunted by government’s action. He pointed out that the situation suggested that there was more to their retention than the country’s interest, which he said, the Federal Government needed to explain to Nigerians.

Source: The Guardian July 24, 2020 03:22 UTC