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President-elect Muhammadu Buhari
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President-elect Muhammadu Buhari yesterday expressed his displeasure at
the military’s inability to secure the life and property of its citizens.
“The military has never been so
incapacitated like now. It’s a shame that the military cannot secure 14 of
Nigeria’s local governments out of the 774 local governments in the country,”
he said.
According to the president-elect,
what is more worrisome is the fact that Nigeria’s military has to rely on South
African mercenaries before it could gain recent success in the war against Boko
Haram.
Leadership reports:
General Buhari, who made the above
comment in Kaduna while playing host to the national executive council of the
Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) described the development as “shameful and
unacceptable.”
“My administration will concentrate
on three major areas on assumption of office; that is insecurity, the
economy/unemployment and corruption. We will ensure we nip insecurity in bud.
“The Nigeria Army could not do small
thing, they have to bring in South African mercenaries to enable them record
the recent gains in the North East,” Buhari stated.
Speaking on governance, the
president-elect said his administration would make sure that every Nigerian
lives within his honest earnings, adding that “a situation where people live
above their earnings will not be tolerated.”
In his address, the ACF chairman,
Ibrahim Ahmadu Coomassie, a former inspector-general of police, had told the
president-elect that Nigerians voted for him because they believe in his
integrity, transparency, accountability, honesty and commitment to the security
of life and property.
Coomassie noted Nigeria had never
experienced the level of decay, the collapse of moral values and the high level
of corruption, crime and impoverishment of the citizenry like in the last six
years.
The ACF leader said: “Security has
been the major concern, especially in the North-East region which has been
devastated by the insurgency caused by the Boko Haram; and the energy, which is
the source of power and main driver of the economy, requires serious and urgent
attention. “
The former IGP further told Buhari
that Nigerians are eagerly waiting for him to solve the problems facing them
and to also free them from the shackles of poverty, ignorance, corruption and
insurgency.
He advised the president-elect to
restrict the powers of the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF).
He said, “The current situation when SGF
operates above ministers offends the laid-down principles of accountability in
governance.”
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