President Muhammadu Buhari may likely fire the four service chiefs next week as the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno has hinted on plans to completely re-engineer the nation’s security architecture.
This follows calls by concerned Nigerians for the sack of the service chiefs following rising spate of insecurity in the country.
Monguno while speaking to state house correspondents after a security briefing on Tuesday said the president told service chiefs at the briefing that their effort is not good enough.
Monguno said since the issues are operational, Bashir Magashi, minister of defence, “is working on something” and will likely give a new direction to the security agencies in the days to come, The Cable reported.
He said Buhari told the service chiefs that Nigerians have lost confidence in the security sector but he is determined to restore that confidence.
“The president is angry over the declining security situation. At the last meeting, he mentioned it,” Monguno said.
“What he said today is virtually a reaffirmation of what he said the first time. Yes Mr President said you are doing your best, as far as I’m concerned, but there’s still a lot more to be done. I’m more concerned about the promise we made to the larger Nigerian society and I am ordering an immediate re-engineering of the entire security apparatus.
“This is something that I believe will be done in a very short time, but I just want us to keep hope alive.I know how everybody feels, I know how Nigerians feel, definitely the president is not oblivious of the fact that securing the nation is a primary responsibility of government and I believe in his sincerity, but again, since he’s not an octopus, since he’s not a spirit, if he delegates to people, then the onus is on them to actually fulfil the legitimate expectations of the larger Nigerian society.”
