SAN FRANCISCO, February 17, (THEWILL) – hose waiting for the Service Chiefs to be fired by President Muhammadu Buhari will have to tarry a while as the presidency has revealed that the President is not ready to dispense with their services.
Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu disclosed that security reports before the President, indicate that “Nigeria is in a war situation”, as a result of which the President is weighing the options before him.
“Removal or sack of service chiefs does not stop all of what we are experiencing. Whether we like it or not, we are in a war situation. The President and the Commander-In-Chief is seeing things that others cannot see. This is why he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
“How can they say the President does not care? His heart is there on how to secure and protect this nation. He is being briefed adequately by the service chiefs and others and he gives directives as the C-In-C.
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“It is people who don’t know what the government is doing that are saying the President does not care. They think security is like a market place where everybody is an expert.”
Regarding the clamour for new ideas and strategy, Shehu added: “The strategy is always constantly being reviewed. Nothing is fixed.
“The President is a military man; he has been working very hard with others on multiple solutions to the challenges at hand.
“About 1,000 military hardware bought with military budget and special funds from the Presidency are on the high seas to strengthen the war against insurgency and banditry.
“While the military arsenal is not something you pay for and get, requiring mostly long-time orders, weapons will come in accordance with the terms of contracts.
“This country is expecting the commencement of the delivery of Super Tucano fighter jets, very effective in this kind of warfare, beginning next year from the United States.’’
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