Insecurity: Resign now or be sacked by President Buhari- House of Representatives tell Service chiefs

Members of the House of Representatives today passed a vote of no
confidence on all the service chiefs, asking them to either resign their
positions immediately or be sacked by President Buhari.

The lawmakers made the call during its plenary in Abuja today January 29th.

While debating on the nation’s rising insecurity, a member of the
House, Abubakar Fulata, informed his colleagues that the service chiefs
had outlived their usefulness and that 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 of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila,
thereafter put the question to the lawmakers whether the service chiefs
should resign and leave their offices or be sacked. Although there was a
divide among the members in their response, majority of the lawmakers
answered in the affirmative and the resolution was passed.

The service chiefs include the Chief of Defence Staff, General
Gabriel Olonisakin, Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Tukur
Buratai, Chief of Naval Staff, and the Chief of the Air Staff, Air
Marshall Sadiq Abubakar. They were appointed in July 2015.