- * Urges New Security Chiefs To Tackle Insecurity, Make Nigeria Safe
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)@CeleOkaf11
The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has given a thumbs up to President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing new Service Chiefs to tackle the worrisome insecurity in the country.
IPAC also congratulates the new service chiefs, Chief of Defence Staff - Major-General Leo Irabor; Chief of Army Staff - Major-General lbrahim Attahiru; Chief of Naval Staff - Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo and Chief of Air Staff - Air Vice Marshal Isiaka O. Amao, on their appointments, describing it "well deserved".
IPAC in a statement on Tuesday evening by its National Chairman, Dr. Leonard Nzenwa, said the new appointment will hopefully "rescue the nation from elongated terrorism, insurgency, banditry, and kidnapping, and safeguard its territorial integrity. It is a welcome development that will ensure insecurity in the country is effectively tackled and defeated.
'IPAC and patriotic Nigerians have severally called for the rejig of the nation's security architecture with a view to injecting fresh blood and ideas in fighting insurgents in the country.
"It is time to fight terrorism head-on and make Nigeria safe and secure again. The citizenry has confidence in the ability of the nation's armed forces to rout, crush, subdue and conquer Boko Haram insurgents, the ubiquitous bandits, and kidnappers that have terrorized the people for over a decade", the statement said.
IPAC however charges the service chiefs to be proactive, and to launch effective military offensives at all their dens, camps, and hideouts in the country and reclaim every part occupied by terrorists and rescue their captives.
"All captured terrorists, insurgents, bandits and kidnappers should be prosecuted along with their sponsors to serve as a deterrence to others who would contemplate such outrageous crimes against the fatherland.
"Council urges the Federal Government to provide the military with modern weapons, ammunition, and fighter jets essential to defeat the insurgents and all criminal elements in the country. The need for teamwork and intelligence sharing cannot be over-emphasized. To achieve this, the welfare of the rank and file should be a top priority so as to boost their morale on the battlefield.
"The era of fighting terrorism, insurgency and banditry with a kid's glove is over. Nigerians expect total defeat of these outlaws and not the purported "technical defeat" in which the insurgents and bandits are pampered, rehabilitated, and released to resume their onslaughts against fellow compatriots.
"The tasks ahead is enormous and expectation of Nigerians very high, IPAC, therefore, urges the new service chiefs to justify the confidence the nation reposed in them and adopt the best military strategies to defeat these gangsters and insurgents and seek foreign assistance where necessary.
"Our thoughts, prayers and support are with members of our armed forces, paramilitary personnel and the police in the quest to make Nigeria safe and great again as the giant of Africa. We are all in it together, and together we shall surmount all obstacles in building a strong, virile, progressive, prosperous, equitable and decent democratic nation", Dr Nzenwa stated. NNL.
