Dennis Naku, Port Harcourt

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) have lauded the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) for the sacking of the service chiefs and the appointment of new ones.

Wike in a statement by the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, though the appointment was belated, it shows the President was listening to calls for their sack.

The Governor said even though the appointments came late, the President should be commended for listening to the voice of the people.

He challenged the new appointees to see their appointments as an opportunity to re-engineer the nation’s security architecture which has suffered a tremendous setback in the last five years.

The statement reads, “The new Service Chiefs should not politicize security by aligning with politicians. What the country needs now is competence and professionalism that will reduce insecurity to the barest minimum.”

Wike noted that Nigerians who lost confidence in the former Service Chiefs are looking up to the new appointees to make the desired change and called on all levels of government to give the new appointees the needed support they would require to execute their assignments.

“This is an opportunity to serve the nation and I believe that the Service Chiefs will be focused and dedicated,” the statement added.

Similarly, spokesman for PANDEF, Ken Robinson, in a statement welcomes the appointment of the new Service Chiefs and the sacking of their predecessors, saying the sacking was long overdue.

“Though the sack of the erstwhile Service Chiefs was long overdue, we commend President for finally responding to calls by well-meaning Nigerians. We congratulate the new Service Chiefs while hoping that they would discharge their duties and responsibilities professionally, without biases and tendencies, n the best interest of the country.

“PANDEF, however, quizzes Mr. President’s plaudits on the outgone Service Chiefs given their evident failure to deliver on their various mandates, amidst worsening state of insecurity in the country,” the statement added.

 

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