Ex-Reps’ member urges sack of IGP, service chiefs over insecurity

It’s unnecessary for them to continue, security scholar restates
A former member of the House of Representatives, Lanre Agoro, yesterday, urged President Bola Tinubu to disengage the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Alkali Baba and other service chiefs to address rising insecurity in the country.

Agoro, who made the call during a live radio programme in Ibadan, urged Tinubu to tackle insecurity headlong.

ALSO, a security scholar at the University of Ibadan (UI), Prof. Oyesoji Aremu, said it would be strategically and theoretically difficult for the current service chiefs to continue with the Tinubu administration.

He said the President would want new hands and fresh minds that could join his administration to achieve his set goals on insecurity.

BUT on his part, a global security expert, Prof. Olawale Albert, said what should change is not the service chiefs but honest intention to rid Nigeria of career and situational criminality.

Albert, however, said it would not be surprising to see Tinubu come up with his own team to deal with the challenges.

He said: “Every new regime in Nigeria comes up with its own peculiar ways of managing security. I would, therefore, not be surprised to see Tinubu come up with his own team for dealing with the challenges. But the outgoing chiefs must be specially appreciated for their efforts.”

“Those who appointed them created too many security problems for them to manage. They would have performed better under a more altruistic administration.

‘’Nigeria is blessed with the best security agencies in the world. The outgoing chiefs worked with them. The new chiefs will be chosen among them. Nothing would change if these professionals are prevented from doing their work by political gerrymandering. What should change are not the service chiefs but our honest intention to rid Nigeria of career and situational criminality.”