The Center for Security and Good Governance, a civil society organisation, has raised the alarm over what it described as desperate and unpatriotic conduct by some members of the opposition and security operatives.
According to the CSO, intense efforts were on to influence and secure the removal of the current Service and Intelligence Chiefs to replace them with their stooges ahead of the 2023 elections.
In a press statement signed by spokesman of the centre, Comrade Musa Saleh Malumfashi and made available to journalists in Abuja over the weekend, the group decried some unpatriotic Nigerians bent on destabilising the security apparatus of the country for their personal gains, warning that “this will negatively affect the war against terrorism that has received a boost with the coordinated actions of the current Service and Intelligence Chiefs.”
YThe statement said, “It has come to our notice that certain greedy and unpatriotic elements are scheming and plotting the sack of the Service and Intelligence Chiefs to be replaced by their stooges so that they can feast on the security votes during elections and partake in the rigging of elections for the highest bidders. This must not be allowed to happen as it will amount to truncating our nascent democracy and draw us back on the war against terrorism, insurgency and banditry.”
The CSO further alleged that the dangerous move is being orchestrated by cabals inside the Presidency, who are negotiating, lobbying as well as encouraging the officers.
The statement noted that the cabals are boldly bragging about their role in the sack of the immediate past Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), alleging that monies had exchanged hands already.
The CSO while calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to beam his torchlight on some officers that have exhibited the tendencies of inordinate ambition and greed, also hinted of plot to carryout mass retirement in the Army.
“We call on Mr. President to do everything within his power to sanitise the military, especially the senior officers who are frolicking with politicians. They portend danger to our nascent democracy and must be either retired or summarily dismissed. There should be no room for enemies of our State to infiltrate our ranks and cause collateral damage to our national security and democracy,” the statement urged.
