UNDER siege from Islamic terrorists, bandits, separatist gunmen, kidnappers, Fulani herdsmen, militants, and sundry criminals, the recent appointment of new military service chiefs and heads of federal security agencies by President Bola Tinubu has raised optimism of imminent respite for the country.
Decisively, Tinubu sacked the heads of key security agencies he inherited from his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, within three weeks of taking office and named replacements. The prevailing circumstances place a heavy burden on the new helmsmen to quickly contain the country’s monstrous insecurity conundrum.
The changes were headlined by the new Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa, Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja, Chief of Naval Staff, Emmanuel Ogalla, and Chief of Air Staff, Hassan Abubakar. Usman Baba, whose tenure as the Inspector-General of Police was encrusted in a legal dispute, was replaced by Kayode Egbetokun.
Buhari’s service chiefs’ performance ranged from weak to outright failure. Under them, the Global Terrorism Index ranked Nigeria as the eighth most terrorised country in the world, having four of the 10 deadliest terrorist organisations – Boko Haram/ISWAP, bandits, Fulani herdsmen and lately, the Indigenous People of Biafra separatists. The Nigerian Security Tracker, run by the Council on Foreign Relations, listed 63,111 violent deaths in Buhari’s eight locust years.
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