The Nigerian Army Council has retired a former Aide de Camp to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan; Col. Ojogbane Adegbe; a former Principal Secretary to an ex -National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.); Col. Nicholas Achinze, a former ADC to the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, Brig. Gen. A. H. Sa’ad; and 57 other senior officers. The affected officers, according to the council, are retired for their involvement in arms procurement under the Goodluck Jonathan administration and their role in the 2015 general elections. Ads by Google Ad covers the page Stop seeing this ad The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said in a statement on Saturday that a large number of the senior officers were retired from the service on Friday. Usman did not give the exact number of those affected. Sources, however, disclosed to our correspondent that no fewer than 60 senior officers of the Army were affected by the exercise. Usman said those affected in the retirement exercise included major generals, brigadier generals, colonels, lieutenant-colonels and a major Usman quoted service exigencies as the reason for the decision by Army authorities to approve the purge in the service. He recalled that the service recently probed the activities of some officers in the 2015 election. He also recalled that some officers of the service had been arraigned in court, following the outcome of the investigation by the presidential committee probing defence contracts in the country. Usman added, “The Nigerian Army wishes to inform the general public that quite a number of senior officers of the Nigerian Army were retired from service yesterday. “Those retired were mainly some major generals, brigadier generals, colonels, lieutenant colonels and a major. “Their retirement was based on service exigencies. It should be recalled that not too long ago some officers were investigated for being partisan during the 2015 general elections. “Similarly, the investigation by the presidential committee investigating defence contracts revealed a lot. Some officers have already been arraigned in court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.” He urged members of the public not to read the current move out of context as the military must remain apolitical at all times. He said the decision by the government to retire the affected officers should be supported by all. However, a source, who confided in our correspondent, said a number of those mentioned in connection with the procurement of defence equipment and those found to have played some questionable roles in the 2015 election were affected. Besides Jonathan and Yar’Adua’s aides, others are Maj. -Gen. M.Y. Ibrahim, F. O. Ali; Brig.-Gen. A. Abdusalam; M. G. Ali, Onibasa; L. N. Bello; Brig.- Gen. D. Abdulsalam, Brig.-Gen. Momoni and M.G. Ali. Other officers said to be included are Fiboinumana, Agachi, Okonkwo, Audu, Oladunjoye, C. O. Amadi, Adimoha, Dazang, Arigbe, Egemole, Baba-Ochanpa, A. Mohd, S. D. Aliyu, LM Bello, Ejemai, Lawan, M. G. Ali, Achinze Ilo, and Col. Audu. The EFCC had in February detained and interrogated some army officers including Adegbe and Achinze. They were detained and quizzed in connection with the ongoing probe into the alleged arms procurement scandal by Dasuki. Both of them were released after filing separate suits against their detention. Also, a panel set up by the Army had in January indicted 92 officers over their roles in the 2015 general elections. The panel report specifically recommended that two officers amongst the indicted soldiers were to be retired at once, while three were to lose their immediate commands. Submitting the report at the Army Headquarters Abuja, the Chairman of the investigation team, Maj.-Gen. Adeniyi Oyebade, who is the GOC 1 Division, had said a thorough job was done before the recommendations were made.

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Because of regime protection, tribal politics we cast away officers we've spent hundreds of millions training, most often before they become fully useful to the nation. At a time we sorely lack the capacity to tackle the myriads of security challenges confronting the nation, we further compound our problem by doing away with some capable hands. Some of these officers, highly trained, bored and frustrated by early retirement become willing tools in the hands of those bent on destabilizing the nation as we've seen with Boko Haram. Buhari should be doing all within his power to reduce our faultlines instead of the division he and his useless regime have been promoting since taking over from the last administration

Good brilliant move! Officers exposed to too much cash are a threat to National Security.

Its greedy people like them that usually plunges African countries into long protracted civil wars.

Most of the civil wars in Africa are caused by ego, greed and selfish interests.

A typical example is Sudan. They fought a 50 year civil war. The North finally separated from the South. Before the world could finish breathing a sigh of relief, the south has already started fighting another civil war within its enclave. It's no brainer, most of these war lords are just fighting for position and power, chiefly to loot, and not to serve. They usually brand their greedy selves. 'freedom fighters'. They use freedom fight as a facade for their greed.

You'll see them fighting a bitter civil war where millions are starving, but the freedom war Lords will be stinkingly rich.

Anywhere a good resource is found in Africa, it most likely results into protracted wars just because of too much greedy interests. The Sierra Leone civil war is another example.

If we don't drop bigotry fueled by ego, Nigeria will soon be plunged into a terrible protracted civil war, with different greedy groups fighting to be in control. It's not going to be pretty for anybody/group.

This is good move I repeat again. The National Security Adviser, Mungono is really doing a good job.

It's not new, Obasanjo also retired those military chaps that were exposed to too much cash by Abacha and Abdulsam.

It's only naive GEJ that didn't envisage the dangers in exposing the military to exorbitant cash.

NIGERIA HAVE NEVER HAD A BIGOT PRESIDENT LIKE BUHARI. I WEEP FOR MY DEAR COUNTRY.

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Wildrage:
Because of regime protection, tribal politics we cast away officers we've spent hundreds of millions training, most often before they become fully useful to the nation. At a time we sorely lack the capacity to tackle the myriads of security challenges confronting the nation, we further compound our problem by doing away with some capable hands. Some of these officers, highly trained, bored and frustrated by early retirement become willing tools in the hands of those bent on destabilizing the nation as we've seen with Boko Haram. Buhari should be doing all within his power to reduce our faultlines instead of the division he and his useless regime have been promoting since taking over from the last administration

Oga keep quiet. How can there be development and performance from a regime, if the regime does not feel protected??

For a regime to deliver, it must be well protected. It is then, they can champion worthy cause without fear or favour.

No matter how well trained officers are, or the cost of training them, when they become a risk, they are expendable and will be disposed. Go and ask the CIA.

Your other rantings about tribal bigotry is false from the story above. We can see a good mix in the senior officers retired. In fact, majority are Northern elements sef.

ade2bad:
NIGERIA HAVE NEVER HAD A BIGOT PRESIDENT LIKE BUHARI. I WEEP FOR MY DEAR COUNTRY.

You better weep for your bigoted self. Your bias is an evidence of your bigotry because majority of the names above are Northerners!

This reverse psychology of crying foul all over the cyberspace premised on selective reading does not fool anybody.

Alright I see

this is good news



it can best be described as good ridance to bad ......



ipods can complete it

ade2bad:
NIGERIA HAVE NEVER HAD A BIGOT PRESIDENT LIKE BUHARI. I WEEP FOR MY DEAR COUNTRY.

Please cry me a river. It is a shame that nobody is talking about their offence. Those guys were investigated and found guilty and I don't care whether they are from Mars or Venus.

Wailers should feel free to keep on wailing. The NA has done the right thing.

Most of them are northerners sef

Nice move
lalasticalala left to you

I thought they said they were all christains from south south origin. But I can still a Sa'ad on the list. how comes?

Very good move. All saboteurs must be purged out.

The truth will surely come out

Nothing undermines the unity of Nigeria more than political and selective disengagement of military officers

So long as we continue to behave like this we will continue to widen our fault lines in this country

The next southern leader will do exactly the same thing to Northern soldiers and the cycle will continue while Nation building suffers

Lalasticlala, Mynd44 OAM4J we need this news with confirmed names on the front page!