The Coalition of Civil Society Networks (CCSN) and the International Human Rights Commission (IHRC) have expressed concern over the whereabouts of Amb.
Recently, President Muhamadu Buhari appointed new service chiefs, what is your take on the appointments?
Interestingly, this set of service chiefs happen to be all officers of the 34th, 36th and 35th Regular Courses from the Nigerian Defence Academy. This is a welcome development as it is anticipated that there will be synergy and a lot of cooperation amongst the chiefs. They are amply qualified to hold their respective offices and while such appointments are at the President’s discretion, the onus of competency on the job lies on the chiefs themselves.
The Service Chiefs have assumed office at such a time that there is a lot of distrust and distress in the body polity because of crass insecurity across the entire nation. While their work seems cut out for them, it is also daunting at the same time. The security architecture of this nature is rather baffling as all efforts to contain insurgency and rout criminality seem to be failing. Just on 17 February, about 42 students were a