Infighting Among Service Chiefs Reason Boko Haram Is Winning The Battle- Nominee Tells Senate
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Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi (retd), a ministerial nominee from Kano State has pinpointed lack of proper coordination and infighting as the major reasons Nigeria's military are loosing the anti-terrorism war.
Magashi highlighted the challenges to the Senate on Thursday while responding to questions from the Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu adding that the relationship among the service chiefs was not cordial.
According to him: “Regarding the issue of the service chiefs, in my own view, we are caught in a situation where you find out that each commander or service chief tries to please the nation.
“Anytime the service chiefs conduct operations, you find radio coverage that the Air Force has done this, the Army has done this; thank God we are not near the ports where we can see that the Navy is also involved.
“If the Navy was around here, then the three services would have been on the same collision course. In an ideal situation where I served as an ECOMOG commander, it was a single unit that was overseeing the needs, the aspirations, welfare of our troops in combat zones.
“In Nigeria today, what we call command structure is now being seen as weakness. We have almost disseminated all our forces and I do not think the current structure is a true reflection of the manpower requirement in this country. We only have divisions probably by name but I do not think we have the required manpower to man them.”
Magashi further noted that for the nation to win the war against insurgency and curtail the growing Insecurity in the country, the Army, Air Force and the Navy should have a common troop working together and should not operate independent of one another.
He went on to suggest that a single commander should take care of reinforcement, operations, change of troops, among other needs.
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