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The new Chief of Army Staff, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru is coming into office with several baggages. The new appointee was said to have been sacked by his predecessor, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai for incompetence as a Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole.
Before the appointment of Maj Gen Attahiru Ibrahim as the new Chief of Army Staff, he was incharge of the 82 Division, Nigerian Army. He was appointed to lead the offensive against Boko Haram in the North-East in May 2017.
He was later replaced barely six month after his appointment with another general, Nicholas Rogers, who led a special military and police force to tackle ethnic clashes in the volatile central region.
The marching order given to Attahiru by Buratai was for him to capture dead or alive the then leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, in 40 days.
But he did not.
Aside not capturing Shekau, the successes recorded by Boko Haram Terrorists increased.
Boko Haram attacked Maiduguri a month after he took over.
As a country that’s battling with insecurity and yet still appointing someone that his incompetency had been tested positive as the chief of Army Staff, isn’t the country riding on a flat tire?
It was recalled as reported by the Cable in 2017 that, “Attahiru Ibrahim, a major general, has been removed from his position as the theatre commander of the Lafiya Dole operation.
TheCable made it known that Ibrahim has been replaced by Rogers Nicholas, a major general who was formerly in charge of logistics at the army headquarters.
Ibrahim is expected to resume as deputy chief of policy and plans at the army headquarters.
His removal is said to be linked to the seeming inefficiency of his command in tackling the Boko Haram insurgency.
In May 2017, he took over the theatre command from Lucky Irabor who is coordinating the multinational joint task force (MNJTF).
Since then, suicide bombings and attacks on military formations have been on the rise.
In June, barely a month after Ibrahim took over, Boko Haram insurgents attacked Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.
The month after, a group of geologists and technologists from the University of Maiduguri were ambushed by Boko Haram insurgents at Magumeri area of Borno state. About 12 soldiers who escorted the academics were reportedly killed.
Some members of staff of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on the team were also killed in the brutal ambush.
Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, in August gave a 40-day ultimatum for Ibrahim and his troops to capture Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Boko Haram sect, but this is yet to be achieved.
Months after the army chief had ordered the capture of Shekau, the sect, using four female suicide bombers, attacked Muna Gari, a suburb of Maiduguri, killing about 14 persons.
Series of attacks were also carried out in Adamawa state.
About 40 people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a mosque in Yola.
A unit commander of the army and about 15 soldiers were killed in November when the insurgents attacked a military unit in Sassawa, Yobe state.” cable reported.
However, for being replaced barely six month after his appointment will be tagged as a failure with the fact that he was given 40 days ultimatum to catch Shekarau which he failed, isn’t Mr President aware of his incompetence?
A report by the International Society For Civil Liberties and The Rule Of Law listed him as one of those behind the massacre of 140 defenceless citizens of Judeo-Christian faith during the global Igbo Heroes Day in Onitsha and Nkpor, both in Anambra State and Asaba in Delta State on May 29 and 30, 2016.
Roqeeb Onijo
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