The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has demanded an immediate inquest into the tenure of the last service chiefs of Olonisakin, Buratai others, to unravel the circumstances behind the security lapses and compromises, as well as the accusation of involvement in the alleged looting of funds, meant for the equipping and welfare of troops in the front.
The PDP insisted that, such must be the sure step towards sanitizing the security architecture, as well as lifting the morale of those in the front lines risking their lives for the security of the country.
In a statement by the party’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP describes the appointment of the new service chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari, as rather late in the day after much harm had already been done to national security.
It says if the President had acted when PDP and other well-meaning Nigerians including the two chambers of the National Assembly impressed upon him to do so, the security situation in the Nigeria would not have degenerated to the abysmal level.
The party hopes that President Buhari will use the new development as a turning point, to listen to wise counsel and not always set the nation on the path of destruction before acting.
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Ologbondiyan further expressed hope that the new service chiefs will brace up to the challenges of the nation, more than at any other point in the nation’s history, while demanding a huge sense of commitment, responsibility and determination, to secure the nation and restore peace, order and national cohesiveness in the polity.
The party urges the new service chiefs, to take urgent steps to restore professionalism, boost the morale of the troops and ensure not to fall into the indolence, corruption, recklessness, abuse of process and partisanship that characterized the tenure of the last service chiefs.
It advised the new commanders, to remember that Nigerians are looking up to them as professionals to remove terrorists, bandits and other outlaws ravaging the nation from its landscape.
(Edited by : Tunde Orebiyi)
