IPAC to Service Chiefs: Nigerians expect more from you

… Lauds Buhari on move to make Nigeria safe again

By John Nwokocha Abuja

National chairman of Inter-party Advisory Council IPAC, Dr. Leonard Nzenwa, has joined other Nigerians to commend President Muhamamdu Buhari for replacing the Service Chiefs with new appointments.

Speaking on Wednesday in Abuja, IPAC notes that it along with patriotic Nigerians have severally called for the rejig of the nation’s security architecture with a view to injecting fresh blood and ideas in fighting insurgents in the country.

While congratulating the new Service Chiefs IPAC declares:

“It is time to fight terrorism head-on and make Nigeria safe and secure again.

“The citizenry has confidence in the ability of the nation’s armed forces to rout, crush, subdue and conquer Boko Haram insurgents, the ubiquitous bandits and kidnappers that have terrorised the people for over a decade”.

Describing the sack of Service Chiefs as a welcome development that will ensure insecurity in the country is effectively tackled and defeated, the Council notes also that their appointment is timely “to rescue the nation from elongated terrorism, insurgency, banditry and kidnapping, and safeguard its territorial integrity”.

IPAC therefore, charges the Service Chiefs to be “proactive, launch effective military offensives at all their dens, camps and hideouts in the country and reclaim every part thereof they occupy and rescue their captives.

“All captured terrorists, insurgents, bandits and kidnappers should be prosecuted along with their sponsors to serve as a deterrence to others who would contemplate such outrageous crimes against the fatherland”.

The Council stated that “the tasks ahead are enormous and expectation of Nigerians very high”, and urged the new Service Chiefs to justify the confidence the nation reposed in them and adopt the best military strategies to defeat these gangsters and insurgents and seek foreign assistance where necessary.

Urging the Federal Government to provide the military with modern weapons, ammunition and fighter jets essential to defeat the insurgents and all criminal elements in the country, it adds that the need for team work and intelligence sharing cannot to overemphasized.

“To achieve this, the welfare of the rank and file should be a top priority so as to boost their morale in the battlefield.

“The era of fighting terrorism, insurgency and banditry with a kid’s glove is over. Nigerians expect total defeat of these outlaws and not the purported “technical defeat” in which the insurgents and bandits are pampered, rehabilitated and released to resume their onslaughts against fellow compatriots”.

The  new Service Chiefs are: Chief of Defence Staff – Major-General  Leo Irabor, Chief of Army Staff,  Major-General lbrahim. Attahiru, Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral A. Zubairu.  Gambo and Chief of Air Staff, I. O. Amao.