The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai has said that the sacking of 38 senior Army officers last week followed due process and was done at the right time.
“There is no better time than now because everything has been taken into consideration and procedures have been followed to ensure that we don’t pick the innocent ones. You can see it started with the enquiries first of all, then legal review and after the legal review, we forwarded the report and recommendations to the authority for consideration.
“So it takes time, it is just like a court process, so we follow our own process, our administrative process and legal review as well. It is the right time and no any other time than now,” he said.
On the crisis in the Niger Delta, Buratai said that the military high command will wait for the outcome of the dialogue between the Federal Government and other stakeholders on one hand and the militants on the other hand.
“The Niger Delta issue did not come up yesterday or today, we are already deployed to the Niger Delta for a very long time. The operations there comprise the armed forces and other security agencies. It entails operations where you have the Army, Navy and Airforce, the Police, Civil Defence and other security agencies, so I don’t think it is overwhelming, it cannot overwhelm the armed forces and we are responding appropriately to ensure that things take shape.
“We are instruments of the political class so whatever decision that the government passes out to us, we want to assure you that we are waiting for whatever decision that will come out from their discussion, but our role is very clear. We must ensure that the security of that place is attained, even as we await the directive of the authorities," he said.
Buratai spoke to newsmen in Abuja on Monday when he paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu.
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