Kaduna Airport, Train Attacks: NCF demands resignation of Service Chiefs

 

A pro-democracy and human rights group has asked the Service Chiefs to immediately throw in the towel following their inability to prevent and pre-empt attacks on the Kaduna airport and Abuja -Kaduna bound train.

The Kaduna bound train from Abuja was bombed by the terrorists in two successive days 28 and 29 March, 2022, which several passengers were left killed, including a young female doctor billed to travel abroad next week.

The group under the aegis of NIgerian Consultative Forum (NCF), said the terrorism acts was " highly despicable and condemnable that all our service chiefs are still parading themselves in their respective offices after the  attacks in broad day  light attack by the terrorists" 

In the statement by the President  of the group, Dede Uzor A Uzor, the right body said several unarmed and innocent persons were killed and abducted  in the seperate events.

They lamented that apart from those who were  killed, injured or abducted, there were  many whose whereabout were still  unknown.

In the face of all this, said NCF, "it  is regrettable that  the Chiefs of Army Staff, Defence Staff, Air Staff,  the Inspector  General of Police (IGR), Director General, Directorate of State Services (DSS), and  heads of other security agencies are still parading themselves in their offices"

The group said : "We are giving them three days to be sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari without further delay or we mobilise NIgerians to protest against them".

NCF said they should immediately bow out honorably to avoid being disgraced in office,saying " how can terrorists or bandits intercept  an aircraft about to take off or disrupt its operation".

The rights group said the bandits were good because if they had lunched a hand grande or rocket launchers on the aircraft many  prominent persons would  have died, unlike the train attack which left the Secretary -General of Trade Union Congress of NIgeria (TUCN), and others dead.

" These ugly incidents would not have happened in the Western World and there Service Chiefs would still remainin in office.

Our leaders have lost their consciences, otherwise what are they waiting for?

They lamented that scores of innocent NIgerians die everyday , yet there is no solution by the people who suppose to address the problems. Dede Uzor cautioned.

30th March 2022