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Gen LEO Irabor: Reform the Military; coordinate operations
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By Tony Eluemunor
Surprisingly, the Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) is often seen as an officer who has been merely kicked upstairs to make way for, sayan Army, Air or Naval Chief of Staff. In fact, there were murmurs of disaffection when former President Shehu Shagari appointed Nigeria’s first Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. General Alani Akinrinade, in 1981, during the Second Republic, from Army Chief, to be the apex military coordinator, and appointed Gen. Inua Wushishi as his successor.
The recently dropped Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Yusuf Buratai, for all his failures, was decidedly more than a decorative flower vase, while he occupied that office. He forgot one important thing; that he was not the Chief of Defence Staff; General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin was.