There is tension in the Armed Forces as President Muhammadu Buhari may have ordered the military hierarchy to account for the number of weapons purchased to fight Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East.
According to Daily Sun, The President was also said to have ordered the Military High Command to make available records of total amount of......
money it received from the Federal Government to curb insurgency.
Top military sources revealed that these and many other decisions were taken after Mr. President met with the service chiefs comprising the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-General Kenneth Minimah, Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin, Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Adesola Amosu, and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Solomon Arase.
The sources who did not want to be mentioned, said the President may have taken the decision due to grumbling in the military by some personnel, who felt that their bosses and their colleagues occupying strategic position had taken advantage of the counter-terrorism operations to enrich themselves.
This, they insist, was not unconnected with the huge amount released by the government, while others met their untimely death in the anti-terror war.
The sources said many of their colleagues who are now dead would have survived if those responsible with the disbursement of funds did so promptly.
This was responsible for troops’ apathy not because they are afraid to fight but because they don’t want their families to suffer after their death.
The attitude is said to have discouraged most personnel who do everything in their powers to avoid being posted to the North- East. It is now a general belief that you either get killed, maimed or court martialed if you are posted there.
This, they accused the authorities of doing to justify the money they make.
Culled - DailySun
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