{"id":81233,"date":"2021-05-28T09:24:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T08:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=81233"},"modified":"2021-05-28T09:24:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T08:24:53","slug":"ohanaeze-laments-40-experienced-generals-that-may-retire-after-yahayas-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/ohanaeze-laments-40-experienced-generals-that-may-retire-after-yahayas-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohanaeze laments 40 experienced Generals that may retire after Yahaya\u2019s appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The apex Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s appointment of Major General Farouk Yahaya would lead to the early retirement of 40 experienced military officers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nOhanaeze described the situation where experienced military officers may be forced to retire amid the insecurity state of the country as unfortunate.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nOkechukwu Isiguzoro, the Secretary-General of the organisation, however, congratulated Yahaya on his appointment as the new COAS.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIn a statement by Isiguzoro, the organisation urged the new Army Chief to fight insecurity and ensure the upgrade in the welfare of his boys.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe statement reads: \u201cOhanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide congratulates the newly appointed COAS, General Farouk Yahaya by President Muhammadu Buhari, \u201d the new COAS must sustain the legacies of late Ibrahim Attahiru and dismantle the cabal sabotaging the fight against insurgents and bandits through recycling of insurgency for exclusively embezzlement of budgetary allocation on security\u201d, which had made the war against the insurgency futile.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cAbout 40 Military Generals will be forcefully retired from the Army based on the endless violation of tenets of federal character, imagine incredibly exodus of senior and more experienced military officers retiring from the army because of their junior was appointed COAS, in a country permeated with insecurity, Mr. President had forced over 40 Generals from 35 RC and 36th RC to retirement because of their junior from 37th RC was appointed COAS, hope it wasn\u2019t done in bad faith against southern Nigeria?.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe body also lamented that Buhari\u2019s lopsided appointments of his National Security Council was responsible for secessionists campaigns across the country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cNdigbo never lobbied for the position of COAS as it was predictable that the President was heading towards favoring the North without modification of the imbalance in the appointments of members of the National Security Council which is sectional and stimulates secessionist campaigns in the Middlebelt and Southern Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cOur expectation of the newly appointed COAS is to provide new techniques to end the conflict ravaging Northern Nigeria and spreading now to the South. He should place professionalism above other considerations and ensure that officers are upgraded with modern technology and training. There should be deviations from the sordid era of brutality against unarmed agitators when armed bandits and Boko Haram are pampered and are reintegrated into the Army,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The apex Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s appointment of Major General Farouk Yahaya would lead to the early retirement of 40 experienced military officers. 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