INSECURITY: Discard ‘baba-go-slow’ toga, sack all security chiefs, Yoruba elders tell Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to shed his perceived toga of “baba-go-slow” and immediately sack all service chiefs for their perceived failures to curtail insecurity and killings in different parts of the country.

The call was made by the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) on Thursday in a communiqué they issued after an expanded national executive meeting of the group held in Ado Ekiti in honour of its late President, Chief Idowu Sofola (SAN), who died last Friday.

The group cited the recurrent killings in Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa states as well as the allegation by a former Minister of Defence, Theophilus Danjuma that the military has been colluding with killer herdsmen to embark on ethnic cleansing, to make the call.

“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.

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“The President must shed the 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,” the communiqué read in part.

The communiqué was signed by the YCE Secretary-General, Dr. Kunle Olajide and the chairman of the Ekiti Council of Elders, Professor J. O. Oluwasanmi.

 

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