BREAKING: House Of Reps Asks Service Chiefs To Resign

The House of Representatives members on Wednesday asked the country’s Service Chiefs to resign their positions over the alarming insecurity in the country.

This formed part of the resolutions reached after the lawmakers had a debate on the nation’s security during Wednesday’s plenary in Abuja.

Representative Abubakar Fulata, had informed his colleagues in the chamber that the service chiefs had outlived their usefulness.

According to him, it will be to the detriment of the country if these men keep doing the same thing repeatedly and expect a different result in tackling the security challenges Nigeria is grappling with.

Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila while presiding over the plenary put the question, as moved by Futala, to the lawmakers whether the service chiefs should resign and leave their offices.

Although there was a divide among the members in their response, a majority of the lawmakers answered in the affirmative and the resolution was passed.

While the performance of the service chiefs became a focus at the House chamber, national security formed a major discussion in the Senate.

The senate had also asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a national security emergency.

Some lawmakers – Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, as well as Senators Musa Sani, Betty Apiafi, and Solomon Adeola, asked the President to sack the service chiefs.

They also called for the resignation of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu.

The service chiefs include the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar; and the Chief of Naval Staff, Ibok Ekwe Ibas.

THE WHISTLER had earlier reported that the house during plenary called on both the majority and minority leaders of the house to propose to the chamber appropriate amendments to the constitution that will ensure interventions to protect the life and property of Nigerians.