Nigeria tells us that today is Armed Forces Remembrance Day, a day set aside for our “heroes” in uniform. While there is no doubt to my mind that many officers in our army are heroes, think Sani Bello who saved the life of Gen. Ironsi’s ADC, Andrew Nwankwo, and Usman Jibrin, who flew many Igbo officers to safety during the pogroms of 1966, and even Mohammed Shuwa, who ensured that Igbos were protected in the area under his command, the fact is that on the balance, the Nigerian Army has a murderous reputation, and as I once referred to them, are an equal opportunities brutaliser.
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BY Ayodele AKINKUOTU
AFTER a seven-day retreat on his farm in Daura, Katsina State, President Muhammadu Buhari must be back in Abuja by now. The one week holiday should have given him some respite from the hurly burly of governance. Certainly, even in the best of times, running the affairs of Nigeria is an onerous task.
There is no doubt the job must have become more daunting, especially this year which has been laid prostrate globally on the socio-economic sphere by the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. For our country, the challenges are more grave because they have been compounded by criminalities of all kinds, insurgency in the Northeast, banditry in the Northwest, kidnappings and robberies in the South.
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Executive subterfuge is now an established act of the Presidency and the myriad of lower-level government agencies that answer to the Presidency. Discerning minds knew all along that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), would not honour the invitation to be at the chamber of the National Assembly to address the House of Representatives on pressing national security issues. It was just empty posturing when the President’s handlers joylessly informed Nigerians that their boss was poised to “talk” to Nigerians’ elected representatives. I joked with my lecturer colleague (we meet up every other day to bemoan the state of the country’s tertiary education and encourage each other to remain steadfast with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, in the face of punishing adversities resulting from non-payment of five months salaries) that the President’s planned meeting with the state governors was to crea
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The Centre for Law and Civil Culture (CLCC) has filed a suit against the Federal Government following the government’s refusal to accede to its requests on continued retention of the service chiefs in office, asking the court to declare as illegal their continued stay in office.
The suit which was filed pursuant to Section 20 of the Freedom of Information Act And Order 34 Rules 1, 3(1), 2 And (6)(B) of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2009 and the Court’s Inherent jurisdiction is seeking for an order of mandamus to compel the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to accede to its freedom of information’s request seeking to know the propriety and /or otherwise of the elongations of years of service of the service chiefs.
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