General Buratai And His Chinua Achebe’s Card By Emmanuel Onwubiko | Sahara Reporters Our yearning for what I call the Professor Chinua Achebe’s moment within the Nigerian Army was not long in coming except that the media reportage of this...READ MORE:
The black South Africans restarted their deadly xenophobic violence few days back against other black Africans living in their country and thereby completely distracted Nigerians from the all-important story of the height of professional misconduct involving a serving Army captain, who allegedly masterminded the killing of three police operatives to save a kidnapper in Taraba State.
That hasty and erroneous attempt by the Army spokesperson to put up a defence for this atrocious act of unwarranted assassination of police detectives by soldiers to frustrate the charging of a kidnapper, seriously dented the institutional image of the Nigerian Army. Buratai played the Chinua Achebe’s card by calling a spade by its name and stating the obvious that the Army needs to carry out systematic re-orientation of the operatives and officer corps of the Nigerian Army so as to achieve service discipline and rid the institution of professional misconduct.
At the risk of sounding like someone paid by General Buratai to blow his trumpets , I will state without equivocation that he has in the last four years adopted constructive steps to instil discipline and to infuse a high dosage of professionalism and competences within the Nigerian Army as an institution.
The Army needs to upgrade the services rendered by the Human Rights Desks in the Army to adequately enlighten operatives on their duties and obligations in the area of promotion and protection of the human rights of citizens and those of the personnel of the Nigerian Army. Key amongst the components of this green book are the following guidelines: a. All personnel of the NA comply with domestic and international laws to which Nigeria is a state party.
The army chief, who spoke in Abuja at the Second and Third Quarter Conference with General Officers Commanding, top commanders and principal officers, said the army had concluded its investigation into the Taraba incident and decisive actions would be taken.
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