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“When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants”
– Emmanuel Macron, the President of France.
Last Thursday, February 25, 2021, I was one of the two panelists on Politics Nationwide, a network programme of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria. Mrs. Chinwe Nnorom, a director in the bureaucracy of the Peoples Democratic Party, and I were the two guests on the show. The topic of discussion was, “Regulating Defections from Political Parties”, anchored by Joy Makka. The programme moderator revealed that Nigeria has had a history of defection of party members from one political party to another right from the colonial era. In 1951, the first celebrated cross-carpeting episode occurred in Nigeria; which consequently robbed the leader of the National Convention of Nigerians and Cameroons, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the chance to lead the government’s business of Western Nigeria. This mea
Lai Mohammed: Nigerians calling for probe of service chiefs are unpatriotic withinnigeria.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from withinnigeria.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Lai Mohammed Lambasts Those Calling For Probe Of Ex-Service Chiefs, Calls Them Unpatriotic
Nigerians have been calling on the International Criminal Court in Hague, The Netherlands to investigate and prosecute them for their crimes against humanity.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Feb 02, 2021
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has called Nigerians demanding investigation and trial of the former security chiefs as unpatriotic.
Mohammed said this on Tuesday in a Radio Nigeria programme tagged Politics Nationwide monitored by SaharaReporters.
The country was under severe attacks by Boko Haram and other terror groups when General Abayomi Olonisakin (Chief of Defence Staff), Lt. General Tukur Buratai (Chief of Army Staff), Vice-Admiral Ibok Ibas (Chief of Naval Staff) and Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar (Chief of Air Staff) were in office.
Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, has berated Nigerians calling for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to probe the immediate-past service chiefs, describing them as unpatriotic.
Mohammed made this known while speaking on Tuesday during a
Radio Nigeria programme,
TheBreakingTimes.
This medium had reported that President Muhammadu Buhari, appointed four new service chiefs last week after much clamour from Nigerians that he bring in fresh hands to pilot the country’s anti-terrorism war.
The new service chiefs are Major-General Ibrahim Attahiru (Chief of Army Staff); Major-General Leo Irabor (Chief of Defence Staff); Rear Admiral A.Z Gambo (Chief of Naval Staff); and Air-Vice Marshal I.O Amao (Chief of Air Staff).