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Yoruba Elders Urge Buhari To Sack Buratai, Other Service Chiefs
The Yoruba
Council of Elders, YCE, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately
sack all the service chiefs.
The council
hinged their reason on the service chiefs’ alleged inability to effectively
curtail killings in different parts of the country.
According to
them, the recurrent massacre in Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa states have lent
credence to the accusation by a former Minister of Defence, Theophilus Danjuma,
that the military was colluding with killer herdsmen to embark on ethnic
cleansing.
The YCE stated
this in a communique issued after their Expanded National Executive meeting
held in Ado Ekiti on Thursday in honour of its late President, Chief Idowu Sofola
(SAN), who died last Friday.
The communique
was signed by the YCE Secretary-General, Dr. Kunle Olajide and the chairman of
the Ekiti Council of Elders, Prof. J. O. Oluwasanmi.
It partly read,
“The Yoruba Council of Elders calls on Mr. President to relieve the present
security chiefs, some of whom are already overdue for retirement of their
position and immediately reconfigure the security architecture of the country
to reflect the federal character clause in our constitution.
“Most Nigerians
have lost confidence in the security chiefs especially the Inspector-General of
Police, Ibrahim Idris, whom the President has publicly acknowledged as
disobeying his instructions.
“The President
must shed and toga of Baba go-slow and act promptly on this matter to once
again inspire the confidence of Nigerians in his administration.
“A military which
publicly claimed to be neutral where the law of the land is being violated and
innocent citizens are mindlessly murdered by armed herdsmen is definitely
partisan and can no longer be trusted to protect all Nigerians.”
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