TENSION IN THE ARMY AS PRESIDENT JONATHAN SIDESTEPPED 31 SENIOR GENERALS TO APPOINT HIS KINSMAN CHEIF OF ARMY STAFF The Army is soaked in tension as the fate of 31 senior military officers now hangs in the balance. President Jonathan ordered that Maj-Gen. Kenneth Tobiah Jacob Minimah, his kinsman, take over from Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika as chief of army staff; One of the implications of appointing Maj-Gen. Minimah (a Regular Course 25 member of the Nigerian Defence Academy) as the chief of army staff is that about 31 officers who are his seniors, like Course 24, 23 or 22, are going. A top military source shouted “The appointment of Minimah is an ill-wind that blows into the face of the military. We have been crying out that the agenda of Jonathan is to name his kinsman the chief of army staff right from his days in Lagos Command but they said we were alarmists; now the hen has come home to roost. There are so many officers who are superior to Minimah; now what becomes of them? 31 heads plus that of Ihejirika were sacrificed to make the presidents kinsman COAS.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:47:55 +0000
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