Ohanaeze backs NASS on the call for removal of service chiefs

 Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, says it supports the call by the National Assembly for the removal of the service chiefs.

The group said their continued retention was becoming a national and international embarrassment.

It said the response of the Senior Special Adviser to the President, Femi Adesina, to the call was unacceptable and an insult to Nigerians who they said are receiving the brunt of the attacks and killings on daily basis.

In a statement the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Nnia Nwodo;  Emeka Attamah said the Igbo apex organization wondered why the Federal Government has refused to save the nation from undeserved calamity.

The statement read in part, “What was special about the current service chiefs that made them indispensable? It is unconstitutional to keep a worker in service long after he is due for retirement.

“It was not surprising that there are overt dissensions in the military with soldiers resigning in their numbers due to dissatisfaction and disaffection coupled with the alleged corruption in the force.

“The situation now suggests that there is more to their retention than the interest of the country which the Federal government needs to explain to Nigerians.”