Nigerian Senate calls for sack of country’s military chiefs

The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday passed a resolution calling for the sack of the country’s service chiefs over the spate of insecurity in the country. The senate position followed a motion moved by Senator Ali Ndume.

Senator Ndume moved his motion on the back of the recent ambush of soldiers in Katsina and the alleged voluntary resignation of many soldiers.

According to the Senator, both developments and others are worrying.

Despite his concerns about the security situation, he did not call for the dismissal of the service chiefs, neither did he demand that they should step aside.

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The call for them to step aside was made following an additional prayer to his motion in the course of deliberations.

Senator Francis Fadahunsi made the call for the service chiefs to step aside as part of his contributions to the discourse on the motion.

Other senators okayed the move and passed the resolution for the service chiefs who have been in office since July 2015 to step aside.

The Senators also mandated a joint defence, army, navy, airforce, police and interior committee to engage with the military to ascertain the state of affairs of the armed forces.

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