A group, Middle-Belt Revival Network (MBRN), has demanded for the resignation of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, and the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Alli, over what they called arbitrary sack of the senior army officers recently.
In a statement signed by the group’s national coordinator, Hon. Danladi Usman, it accused the military echelon of playing politics with national security.
According to the statement, the new military establishment came with the mindset of doing away with any officer who worked closely with the former leadership of the service, and as a result “they were portrayed as villains in the eye of the press and the world at large, to perfect their plan to eject them from the system.”
The group described the mass sack as an “economic sabotage,” which could cost the nation huge sums of money to regain the lost experience in the already trained officers.
“It is an economic sabotage for anyone to sack well trained and senior officers that Nigeria has committed so much into their trainings. This has cost the nation a huge investment simply for political expediency,” the statement read in part.
It also accused the present leadership of the Nigerian Army of losing focus on the job, as according to them the army has chosen politics above their primary assignment of protecting the nation.
The group also threatened to lead a protest with other members of the civil society “if within seven days the Commander-in-Chief fails to reinstate the victimised officers.”
