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Obasanjo crippled military –Gen Ishola Williams

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Former head of the Nigerian Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Major General Ishola Williams (rtd), has laid the blame for the current woes of the military in trying to get a grip on insurgency in the North East squarely on the shoulders of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

He said Obasanjo’s mass purge of the military in 1999, crippled the Army, as most of the officers affected went away with their experience and intelligence and Nigeria is now paying dearly for it.

Williams, who also lamented the current state of insecurity in the country, in an exclusive interview with Sunday Telegraph, said if nothing is done to arrest the situation, the consequences may be grievous.

It would be recalled that Obasanjo, on assumption of office with Nigeria’s return to civil rule in 1999, sacked 93 senior officers, claiming that they had been “politically exposed”.

New Telegraph, December 23, 2018

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