Attahiru: Buhari postpones FEC, Police Council meetings
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By Omeiza Ajayi
Following the death of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and ten other senior military officers and service men, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the postponement of this week’s meetings of the Federal Executive Council and that of the Police Council.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF, Mr Boss Mustapha disclosed this in a statement issued Monday in Abuja.
He said; “Further to the directive of Mr. President for the National Flag to fly at half-mast nationwide from 24th – 26th May, 2021 and the declaration of today, Monday 24th May, 2021, as work free-day for members of the Armed Forces, the President has also directed that the Federal Executive Council Meeting scheduled to hold on Wednesday, 26th May, 2021 be postponed to Wednesday, 2nd June, 2021.
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The Federal Government has announced the postponement of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) and the Police Council meeting earlier scheduled for Thursday.
The Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, announced this in a statement, on Monday, saying that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the postponement in honour of the memory of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 other senior military officers and servicemen.
The statement said: “Further to the directive of Mr President for the National Flag to fly at half-mast nationwide from 24th – 26th May 2021 and the declaration of today, Monday 24th May 2021, as work free-day for members of the Armed Forces, the President has also directed that the Federal Executive Council Meeting scheduled to hold on Wednesday, 26th May 2021 be postponed to Wednesday, 2nd June 2021.
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the postponement of the Federal Executive Council meeting (FEC) in honour of the deceased Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and ten other officers and men.
Buhari cancels FEC meeting in honour of Attahiru, others
Mr Attahiru and the 10 officers and men of the Nigerian Army died when their NAF plane they were travelling in crashed in Kaduna on Friday.
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The weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) scheduled for Wednesday has been cancelled in honour of the Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 other military officers and men who recently died in a plane crash.
The next meeting of the council will now hold on June 2.
Also, a meeting of the Police Council, which was billed for May 27, has also been shifted to June 3.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021 marked seven whole years that the Chibok Girls were abducted, and out of a total of 276 girls, 112 remain unaccounted for. It is more than heart wrenching, not to know the whereabouts of your child for one day, let alone seven years. My heart goes out to the Parents of the girls who are still missing. Our prayers are with you, as calling fervently on God may be the only way to rescue the remaining girls, since Government failed to do so, in spite of the fact that they undertook to return all of them within a couple of weeks of their assuming office in May 2015. May God keep the Chibok Girls, Leah Sharibu, and all those who remain in the hands of abductors too, safe, and may He free them Himself. Amen.