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New Chief of Army Staff: Why Army retirement of senior officers after COAS appointment no be new tin
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Reports of compulsory retirement of Senior military officers sake of di appointment of di new Chief of Army Staff Major General Farouk Yahaya by President Muhammadu Buhari no be new tin for Nigerian Army, sabi pipo don tok.
Apart from say di procedure for retirement also dey inside di Harmonised Terms and Conditions of Service and di Armed forces Act of di Nigerian Army, dem add.
Nigeria President Buhari on Thursday appoint Major General Farouk Yahaya wey be from Course 37 of di Nigerian Army as di new Chief of Army Staff.
He began his resumption by inspecting the Quarter Guard.
The new COAS succeeds Lieutenant Ibrahim Attahiru who died in a plane crash exactly one week ago in Kaduna state alongside other military officers.
Channels Television’s Sodiq Adelakun captured the event:
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Following the appointment of the new Chief of Army Staff Major General Farouk Yahaya, sixty-eight generals will be forced to retire.
General Farouk takes over from Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a military plane crash last Friday, May 21, alongside 10 other military officers in Kaduna.
Prior to his appointment, Farouk was the Theatre Commander of Operation Hadan Kai (formerly Lafiya Dole) in the North-East is from 37 regular course of the Nigerian Defence Academy while his predecessor, the late Attahiru was from course 35.
When Buhari appointed the present crop of service chiefs in January, no fewer than 20 generals from the three services who were members of courses 34 and 35 were retired to pave way for them.