By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
The former governor of Kano State, Senator Ibrahim Shakarau, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria was breaking the law of the land by retaining the current services chiefs.
The service chiefs have been in office since the inception of the Buhari administration five years ago.
Shakarau, who spoke on Channelstv, on the massacre of farmers at Koshebe in Borno State, alleged that the present military leadership has failed to perform.
According to him, beyond the argument on performance, the Military Chiefs have overstayed their years of service and as such, the laws guiding the scheme of service were being flouted.
“The President is breaking the law, the law says if you are 60 you must go, it is automatic.
“If you are 35-years in service, you must go. In fact, they are not staff of Mr. President, they are the staff of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and there is a rule,” Shekarau said.
The former two-term governor said that the question of the rule of law must be answered by the presidency, with regards to retaining the service chiefs.
He said that the military was governed by a scheme of service which includes when to leave automatically.
The former education minister pointed out that none of the Service Chiefs has less than 35 years of service under their belt, a requirement, which he said, made them eligible to have been retired.
“Even if Mr. President has found them indispensable, he should allow them to retire just like any public service as the rule specifies and you can then hire them either as minister of defense, adviser of defense, NSA, etc,” Shekarau said.