A set of security experts in Nigeria have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure an immediate and unconditional sack and probe of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Mohammed Babagana Monguno (retd).
The group also called for the sack of the Nigeria’s Service Chiefs as the country was ranked the second among nations struggling under the weight of terrorism, insurgency, banditry, and kidnapping, after Iraq.
The group said the development did not only trigger angry reactions from the security experts but also stakeholders in the country.
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They charged President Buhari to activate his constitutional power of hiring and firing Monguno and the Service Chiefs, lamenting that the report has exposed the incompetence of the military and other security agencies in Nigeria.
Operating under the auspices of the Forum of Security Experts in Nigeria (FSEN), the security experts noted that apart from the fact that the report indicated that very little or nothing had been done in the past to contain the ravaging insecurity in the country, it feared that the country was fast assuming the status of a failed state.
Additionally, it stated that ranking Nigeria as the second most terrorised country in the world, just after Iraq, did not come to them as a surprise but insisted that something urgent must be done to give Nigerians hope of a better future.
The group explained that it raised an alarm recently that the entire security architecture had failed in intelligence and kinetic operations and needed to be overhauled, lamenting that its sincere advice fell on deep ears.
“We wish to remind Nigerians that severally, we had raised concerns about the deteriorating security situation in the country, and the urgent need to reverse the trend,” it said.
It further charged the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, to immediately take proactive steps to address the security challenges bedevilling the country with a view of ensuring sanity in the system or face being sacked out of office.
