From Godwin Tsa, Abuja
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has reiterated his call on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack all service chiefs and appoint those that can professionally secure the country.
He stated this in a statement, yesterday, flaying the armed forces for expecting public applaud amid poor defence of unarmed and defenceless civilians against attacks, kidnappings and killings by terrorists.
“Thousands of our civilians have been kidnapped, butchered and subjected to the most horrendous acts of evil and violence by the numerous terrorist organisations that have invaded and plagued our land. All this yet we are supposed to sit by idly and clap for our military field and operational commanders when things are clearly going wrong? Call it “rabble rousing” if you like (as they did in their press statement) but the overwhelming majority of Nigerians are appalled and disgusted with the degree to which our security situation has degenerated and are demanding that the Military High Command either goes or does far better. Their glaring and embarrassing failures are as repugnant to them as it is to me,” Fani-Kayode said.
He spoke against the backdrop of the statement by the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on his comments on the complicity of the military on the attack on Kuje Correctional Centre.
The former minister on his social media page had blamed the attack on the lackadaisical response of the military, despite getting prior alert from the intelligence agencies.
While passing a vote of no confidence on the military high command in the wake of rising insecurity, Fani-Kayode claimed the military high command has continued to neglect intelligence report by other security agencies as regards the activities of terrorist groups in the country.
The DHQ in their reaction said the allegation by Fani-Kayode were untrue and unsubstantiated.