Northern elders tell Buhari to sack NSA Monguno, security chiefs before 2023 over insecurity

The Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace and Development, CNEEPP, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to dismiss Babagana Monguno, the National Security Adviser, NSA.

The northern elders has also told president Buhari to dismiss all Service Chiefs in the country.

CNEEPP has revealed that the dismissal of Monguno and Service Chiefs would boost security across Nigeria during the 2023 general elections.

The National Coordinator of the northern elders forum, Zana Goni, has via a statement, revealed that the security operatives have no iota of confidence in the ability of Monguno and the Service Chiefs’.

The statement reads: “Nigerians in 2015 and 2019 voted President Buhari to power in anticipation that as a former military head of state and a retired General, he was the right person to deal decisively with all forms of threats to the security of the people.

“But over seven years down the line, rather than abate, insecurity has escalated, thereby, exposing great numbers of people to avoidable deaths and loss of property in a manner that history has never witnessed.

“While we recognise President Buhari’s prerogative to appoint, sack or replace service chiefs, at the same time, he swore an oath to protect the lives and property of every Nigerian citizen.

“Sack of the National Security Adviser, NSA, Major General Babagana Monguno (Rtd) the Service Chiefs to boost the war against insecurity in the country as the General Elections draw close, the elders said,”

“The motivation is to remove the NSA, and all the service chiefs as both junior and senior officers have lost confidence in the leadership of the security agencies.”