New President Of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari is set to sack
service chiefs any time from now, New Telegraph learnt at the
weekend. However, the shake-up in the top hierarchy of the
military will not affect the police as the president is said to
mind the retention of Mr. Solomon Arase who was appointed as
the Inspector General of Police at the dawn of the Goodluck
Jonathan administration .

A reliable source said: “The service chiefs to be affected in the
purge of the high military command are Chief of Defence Staff,
Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh; Chief of Army Staff, Lt.
General Kenneth obiah Minimah; Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice
Marshal Adesola Amosu and Chief of Naval Staff, Rear
Admiral Usman Jibrin. All the service chiefs are going. In fact,
they are gone. They are only waiting for the president to
announce their sack. Even most of them have packed out their
personal effects in their offices. Only the IGP will be retained.”

However, the source added that the delay in the sack of the
service chiefs was due to a disagreement among political
associates of the president over the choice of their
replacements. The composition was tilted towards certain
geographical zone. Hopefully, President Buhari will sack the
service chiefs next week on or before his return from the G7
meeting holding in Berlin, Germany between June 7 and 9,” the
source added.
Arase was appointed on April 21, 2015 and confirmed on May
12. Since 1999, each government always appoints new IGP.


When former President Olusegun Obasanjo took over power
on May 29, 1999, he appointed Musiliu Smith as IG to replace
Mr. Ibrahim Coomassie. The late President Umaru Yar’Adua
appointed Mike Okiro as IG in June 2007 shortly after he took
over power. Okiro succeeded Sunday Ehindero.

Moreover, the expectation was that Buhari would follow tradition and drop Arase for a new IG. The likely retention of Arase is largely on the basis of a number of factors. The source said, “President Buhari will retain Arase as IGP because of his
professional conduct and the fact that he is due for retirement
in 2016.”
He is considered to be highly professional and non-partisan,
the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are
comfortable with his style of leadership and are not opposed to
his retention Arase, 59, who enlisted in the police in 1981, has
only one more year to spend in the service before he is due for
retirement. These among other minor factors leaves him an
edge.

Sai Buhari all d way.

We wait and see. You never can tell with Sai Baba.

sacking them won't address the problems here.