The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai has come under attack for blaming poor commitment of troops on the front-line of the insurgency war for the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks.
Some groups, individuals and political parties have expressed shock over the statement by Buratai who said there was inadequate commitment by soldiers involved in the war against insurgents.
Buratai had on Tuesday, blamed soldiers at the front-lines for the recent setbacks in the war against Boko Haram. He had said that every setback the Nigerian Army has had in their operations in recent times can be traced to insufficient willingness to perform assigned tasks or simply insufficient commitment to a common national and military course by those at the front-lines.
But groups and individuals such as Socio-Economic Right and Accountability Project, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, the Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze, and a second republic politician, Tanko Yakasai called on President Buhari to sack him and all the service chiefs. They claimed his statement would not only demotivate the troops, it also showed that Buratai lacked the capacity to head the Nigerian Army.
