BY SEYIFUNMI LUMEKO
Mr Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, has kicked against the probe of the country’s immediate service chiefs over their role in the insecurity of Nigerians.
After the replacement of the four service chiefs, Nigerians have continued to call on the International Criminal Court, ICC to probe their activities while they were in service.
Specifically, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and some other Nigerians have since demanded the probe of the Olonisakin, Buratai, Ibas and Abubakar to unravel circumstances behind the security lapses during their tenure.
But Lai Mohammed on Tuesday said those calling for his probe were unpatriotic.
Mohammed who stated this during a Radio Nigeria programme, Politics Nationwide, gave reason the service chiefs should not be probed for a war crime.
The information Minister said: “To the best of my knowledge, our service chiefs obey the rules of engagement and where there are infractions, there are internal regulations and internal mechanisms to address them.
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“Those who are calling for the ex-service chiefs to be invited to ICC are unpatriotic people.”
Mohammed also said civilians are not competent to talk on military structure and formations, whether in the North-Eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa or in any other parts of the country.
“Those who talk about the structure, what do they know about the structure of the military? I don’t think any of us is competent to talk about the structure of the military,” he said.
The minister, however, assured Nigerians that the new service chiefs have hit the ground running and would ensure Nigeria overcome the insurgency war in the North-East and in other parts of the country.
