BY LEVI JOHNSON
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has explained why the present service chiefs must remain despite calls for him to replace them for lack of national security.
Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu reiterated that the clamour for the sacking of service chiefs is ‘out of place’.
Shehu pointed out that the president has the prerogative to appoint or sack any of the country’s service chiefs.
According to him, Buhari chooses to keep the present service chiefs because he’s satisfied with their performance.
Shehu disclosed this on Monday in an interview with Arise TV .
Shehu said, “I am not aware that the tenure of service chiefs is subjected to any law of regulation that is clearly stated. They serve at the pleasure of the president and (if) the president is satisfied with their performance, he keeps them. The buck stops at his table —with due respect to the feelings of Nigerians.
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“The clamour for the sack is out of place considering that the president is not subject to the opinion of opposition political party which has clamoured for this all the time. It is entirely his own determination; he decides who he keeps as his service chiefs and for how long.
“My suggestion in the earlier news report is that the military had not certified those areas as being free of landmines and terrorists’ intrusions. Whether there are processes for getting licences or commissions, it is not for me, the military is in a better position to describe those processes.”
