BREAKING: Senate Recommends Sacking Of Buratai, Other Service Chiefs

The Nigeria Senate has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to dismiss the country’s service chiefs for allegedly failing in their responsibility to keep the country safe from Boko Haram terrorists and banditry.

At Tuesday’s plenary of the senate, the lawmakers bemoaned the beheading of over 40 rice farmers at Zabarmari village in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State.

The upper legislative chamber suggested that the service chiefs had ran out of ideas to combat terrorism in the country and hence should be asked to go.

The lawmakers also asked President Buhari to rejig the country’s security architecture and order investigation into allegations of widespread corruption and leakages within the security agencies.

The Upper Chamber also recommends the recruitment of 10,000 civilian JTF to complement the efforts of the armed forces and explore a multilateral partnership with Niger, Chad, and Cameroon.

Former governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima, had earlier raised the motion at plenary noting that President Buhari should remove the security chiefs and replace them with new ones with ideas to address the alarming insecurity in the country.

The lawmaker also claimed that 67 farmers were killed in the attack.

He warned that any government that cannot protect the lives of its citizens has lost any iota of legitimacy.

Senator Ali Ndume in his contribution to the debate lamented that the national budget is woefully inadequate and soldiers do not have enough arms and ammunition.

He said he has observed in the course of visiting military formations soldiers sharing arms and ammunition. He also claims that he has not seen any soldier wielding a brand new AK47 rifle.

Senator Ndume suggested that Nigeria should explore the use of mercenaries to assist in fighting Boko Haram.