Yoruba elders demand sack of Buratai, other service chiefs -Risingsuntv

The Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, has called on
President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack all the
service chiefs.

The council hinged their reason on the service chiefs’
alleged inability to effectively curtail killings in different
parts of the country.


According to them, the recurrent massacre in Benue,
Taraba and Nasarawa states have lent credence to the
accusation by a former Minister of Defence, Theophilus
Danjuma, that the military was colluding with killer
herdsmen to embark on ethnic cleansing.


The YCE stated this in a communique issued after their
Expanded National Executive meeting held in Ado Ekiti on
Thursday in honour of its late President, Chief Idowu
Sofola (SAN), who died last Friday.


The communique was signed by the YCE Secretary-
General, Dr. Kunle Olajide and the chairman of the Ekiti
Council of Elders, Prof. J. O. Oluwasanmi.


It partly read, “The Yoruba Council of Elders calls on Mr.
President to relieve the present security chiefs, some of
whom are already overdue for retirement of their position
and immediately reconfigure the security architecture of
the country to reflect the federal character clause in our
constitution.


“Most Nigerians have lost confidence in the security chiefs
especially the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris,
whom the President has publicly acknowledged as
disobeying his instructions.

“The President must shed and toga of Baba go-slow and
act promptly on this matter to once again inspire the
confidence of Nigerians in his administration.


“A military which publicly claimed to be neutral where the
law of the land is being violated and innocent citizens are
mindlessly murdered by armed herdsmen is definitely
partisan and can no longer be trusted to protect all
Nigerians.”