A group, Nigeria All Patriots Assembly (NAPA) has called for immediate removal of service chiefs due to what it described as mounting insecurity in the country.
The NAPA made this call in a statement issued on Monday, March 9 by its director of communications, Bolanle Oluwaseyi.
The statement read: “We are witnesses to the serial multi-sectoral damage done to our collective national interest that has adversely affected the economy, social cohesion, politics and every other national development index in the last five years.
“First, there was the total mutilation of the electoral system by discarding all rules of fairness, credibility, decency and inclusivity that are basic demands for every working democracy.
“This was followed by the emasculation and bastardization of the nation’s justice system by vandalizing the established judicial regulations and turning the judiciary into a temple no longer of justice, but of suppression of the popular will of the people.
“As if these were not enough, we are today faced with maniacal desperation to mortgage our collective security by compromising the entire national security structure. Insecurity in Nigeria: Catholics protest in Abuja over nationwide killings.
“As the nation reels in harsh economic realities and a thriving criminal industry take a huge daily toll through insurgency, banditry, kidnapping, ethnic and religious conflicts, the administration has stubbornly refused to heed calls to review and adjust its ineffective security arrangements.
“Calls from the nation’s National Assembly, the civil society, religious and cultural leaderships and even subtle rebukes from a section of the international community have been swept aside by an unrepentant club of a few who have caged the presidency and held the entire nation captive.
“In the wake of these unfolding realities and the unyielding destructive stand of the clannish federal leadership, the entire country is gripped by palpable fear, traumatic uncertainty and agonizing daily losses to lives and properties.”