The Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack all the service chiefs in the country following the killing of over 100 Nigerian soldiers in Metele, Borno State by Boko Haram.  

According to a communiqué issued on Tuesday after its monthly meeting held at the house of its leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti in Akure, the Ondo State capital, the group wondered why the security chiefs were still in service despite exceeding the retirement age.

Reading the communiqué, Publicity Secretary of the group, Yinka Odumakin also demanded the probe of what happened to the funds the Federal Government claimed it had spent on security in the country since the beginning of the current administration.  

“The sack of the service chiefs should be followed with a probe of what has happened to defence allocations as we, as a people cannot reconcile our extremely vulnerable troops and wailing solders in the forest with the heavy spending the government claimed it has committed to security,” Odumakin said

Afenifere noted that the massacre of the soldiers deployed to the North-East region to counter terrorism raises more concerns about the state of the Armed Forces and their combat readiness. 

According to the group, despite the $1billion that the Federal Government claimed it disbursed few months ago to equip the military, the Boko Haram insurgents still carry out deadly attacks on soldiers without any resistance.

The group further decried the consistent media propaganda being deployed by the Federal Government in the war against insurgency as well as their insensitivity to the plight of ill-equipped soldiers on the battlefield.