₦airaland Forum

May the soul of the departed rest in peace...

SleazyxMaco:
shut up dimwit.

Sorry ooo, why take out your frustration on me now

I guess rivers people got themselves the sleeping governor...

After how many months They can shove the apology where the sun doesn't shine...Yeye dey smell

whao

The fate of all the Service Chiefs will be determined today as indications emerged, yesterday, that President Muhammadu Buhari, in his capacity as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces will meet with them. Sources said the main agenda will be the battle against terrorism and the relocation of Command and Control Centre of the military to Maiduguri, Borno State capital. It was gathered that the Service Chiefs may be asked to voluntarily retire from service to give way to new appointees.

Buhari According to the source, the plan of President Buhari to relocate the Command and Control Centre to Maiduguri in order to put an end to terrorism did not receive the support of the military high command, hence he needs those who would be ready to work in line with his thinking. Last Friday, the President in his inaugural speech said victory over the Boko Haram would remain a mirage unless the Command and Control Centre (service chiefs) is relocated to the theatre of operation.

He had said: “The most immediate is Boko Haram insurgency. Progress has been made in recent weeks by our security forces but victory cannot be achieved by basing the Command and Control Centre in Abuja. “The command centre will be relocated to Maiduguri and remain until Boko Haram is completely subdued.

But we cannot claim to have defeated Boko Haram without rescuing the Chibok girls and all other innocent persons held hostage by insurgents. This government will do all it can to rescue them alive.” 7th Division already in Maiduguri Already, the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army, created by former Army chief, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika (rtd), commanded by a General Officer Commanding, and made up of two brigades and seven battalions of about 900 officers and soldiers per battalion is in Maiduguri. They are backed by the 3rd Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army with headquarters in Jos, Plateau State.

Military sources express reservations Though President Buhari’s speech was hailed by many people, military sources, who spoke with some journalists, yesterday, in Abuja expressed reservations about the directive which they see as an “attempt to frustrate and humiliate our chiefs before sacking them. “Some of us have analyzed the speech and our conclusion is that President Buhari did not appreciate the efforts put in place in fighting the terrorists. In the whole speech, he did not commend us at all but instead seemed to agree with the cynics that we have not been observing human rights in our operations.

“He went further to praise our counterparts in the neighbouring countries who are not in the theatre of operation but were encouraged only to help block their borders to prevent the terrorists from escaping to re-mobilise.

As if that was not enough, President Buhari said he wants our Command and Control Centre relocated to Maiduguri. What for? “We are involved in about nine operations in the country now. If the directive is carried out, then our focus will primarily be on terrorism at the expense of other criminal activities such as kidnapping, armed robbery, piracy, pipeline vandalism and others.” Directive alien in military operations According to the source, “Such a directive is alien in military operation anywhere in the world.

It is an attempt to frustrate, humiliate our chiefs before sacking them. How do you ask our service chiefs to be in the same place with their commanders? Where is the respect? If he wants them to go, he should simply tell them; rather, he is coming with a blackmail so that he would say he wanted them to remain but they ignored his order so that they might be subjected to humiliation and frustration before kicking them out of the service.” Asked if the service chiefs have met with the President over the issue, our source explained that Buhari did not speak with them before giving the order.

“How will they meet him without his invitation and if it is tomorrow they would be meeting him for briefing, we don’t know; may be he would ask them to go or ask them to obey his directive before kicking them out,” the source said.

The service chiefs who came into office on January 16, 2014 are Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh; Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Kenneth Minimah; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu; and Naval Chief, Vice Admiral Jibrin Usman. Meanwhile, the President held a closed door meeting with the National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) at Defence Headquarters, yesterday.

Details of the meeting were not made available as the NSA refused to comment on the subject of the meeting. Buhari to visit Niger, Chad, Wednesday, Thursday Also, President Mohammadu Buhari will on Wednesday and Thursday visit the Republics of Niger and Chad respectively. The trip which would be Buhari’s first since he assumed office on May 29 was yesterday confirmed to Journalists by his spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu.

According to Shehu, Buhari will first visit Niger on Wednesday, pass the night there before proceeding to Chad republic on Thursday. “The president has Niger and chad ahead of him. This will be his first trip outside the country in obvious matters of security”, he said.

President Buhari in his speech vowed to make the war against terror a cardinal Programme of his administration. He said, “Boko Haram is a typical example of small fires causing large fires.

An eccentric and unorthodox preacher with a tiny following was given posthumous fame following his extra judicial murder at the hands of the police. Since then through official bungling, negligence, complacency or collusion, Boko Haram became a terrifying force taking tens of thousands of lives and capturing several towns and villages covering swathes of Nigerian sovereign territory. “Boko Haram is a mindless, godless group who are as far away from Islam as one can think of.

At the end of the hostilities when the group is subdued the Government intends to commission a sociological study to determine its origin, remote and immediate causes of the movement, its sponsors, the international connections to ensure that measures are taken to prevent a recurrence of this evil.

“For now the Armed Forces will be fully charged with prosecuting the fight against Boko haram. We shall overhaul the rules of engagement to avoid human rights violations in operations. “We shall improve operational and legal mechanisms so that disciplinary steps are taken against proven human right violations by the Armed Forces.

Boko Haram is not only the security issue bedeviling our country. The spate of kidnappings, armed robberies, herdsmen/farmers clashes, cattle rustlings all help to add to the general air of insecurity



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/buhari-meets-service-chiefs-today-over-boko-haram-2/#sthash.lIrfrvY5.dpuf

Well we should add corrpution to the list too...

Jesusloveyou:
have u see pmb since inauguration? He has many things to attend to, he has not even resume duty,not to talk of having time for less important thing like asset declaration, don't u pple have common sense? boko haram just strike for d first day, and he has swift into action immediately, not like ur 'i don't care' ex-president. Is high time u saTANiod should have common sense.

He has already resumed officially, in as much as i agree with you that asset declaration is less important and shouldn't be an issue, those asking for him to declare it publicly are only holding him accountable on his campaign promises...

When you don't deliver on trivial campaign promises such as asset declaration, how do you expect nigerians to trust him to deliver on the the important campaign promises...

Remember drop of water makes an ocean, plus tune down on the insults those asking (whether justified or not) have the right to ask you know...

M4gunners:
And this is how the matter will die.We don enter one chance i tell una. No smoke without fire, they have reason for refusing to make it publicly.

The certificate issue comes to mind, before it was partially laid to rest...

I hope this will not be like the certificate issue, if only mallam shehu did not start blowing PMB's trumphet too early...


BTW i will still want to give PMB and Osinbajo a benefit of a doubt that they will fulfil their campaign promise of declaring their assets to nigerians and not to CCB alone...IMO

Unfortunately PMB can't carry out any probe in osun, with the immunity clause in the constistution, so for now aregbe can't be probed...

I wonder how aregbe was able to deceive the people of osun into voting him for a second term...SMH


Well i guess the actions/inactions of aregbe is enough for the people of osun state to resist another "change agent" in the coming election...SMH

*In PDP's e-warrior voice* Did chadians and nigeriens vote for him in the last election...

Propaganda did not start with PDP and it won't end with them, its just for the APC lead government to prove the propaganda "mongers" wrong....

otipoju:
Telling PDP politicians not to be corrupt is like telling a tortoise to fly..its not possible

You are getting it wrong, when it comes to money in the national assembly there is no opposition, they are always united, so pointing accusing fingers at PDP guys alone in the national assembly is very wrong....

We also have APC senators/reps in the assembly and none of them said anything about the waste of national fund going on in the house, all in the name of running the "legislative" arm of government...

wallex1983:
I don't get.... So Fayose himself wanted peace in Ekiti?

This is not the time to play who is right and who is wrong, plus there is a court judgement barring any proceedings, are you saying they should disobey the court order in other to settle their "score" with fayose when they have less than 2 days to the end of their tenure

Its high time they let whatever transpired between them (the law makers) and fayose go for the sake of the people of ekiti and for peace...

I wonder what the APC law makers will gain by impeaching fayose few days to the end of their tenure, i just don't understand why they don't want peace in ekiti...SMH

Any decision PMB's takes with regards to bokoharam should be supported, nigerians are concerned about result, if his decision will put an end to this rag heads, then we nigerians should support it...

Attacking a decision without seeing the implementation yield result or fail is uncalled for...IMO

cold:
This is sad. But it's kinda awkward now that there's no GEJ to lampoon. So what do we do now? Turn our anger on Buhari?

PMB gets all the blame now, since the fall guy has already handed over, I wonder when nigerians will see terrorism as a nigerian issue and not an administration issue...

This is just sad, I hope some of our fellow nigerians would not start throwing blame/abuses at PMB that was just sworn in yesterday...

I hope this ends soon

There is no need attacking PMB's speech, nigerians should hold him accountable on his campaign promises...

His speech doesn't really matter to nigerians, its his performance that matters...we don hear enough english/speech(es) since independence...IMO

Some people can be so heartless...SMH

Dewze:
Ignorance destroys a people. It has destroyed Nigerians.

If only ojota "occupiers" knew, subsidy would have been history, but trust nigerians they allowed some set of politicians to play on their emotions...

Its only in nigeria, nigerians will be left at the mercy of oil marketers.

This is a valid reason why subsidy should go, if only the protesters of 2012 knew what was ahead, they would have fully supported GEJ on the remover of subsidy...

I wonder why some set of people like wasting funds they should be distributing to less privilege, rather than wasting it on a fruitless exercise...

Good el rufai realises this early enough to hit the ground rolling after he is sworn in...

Kill them all

Na wa ooo

Eleyi gidi gan

I hope other marketers will follow suit...

In as much as they have the right to go wherever they wish, most of them travelling immediately after inauguration breeds suspicion of wrong doing while in government...

Definitely questions will be asked, about what they were responsible for in GEJ's government...

When it comes to sharing money, they are always united...This greedy bunch will never reduce their expenditure with nigeria sinking...SMH