Service chiefs: Nigerian Senate moves to cut president’s powers
- The Nigerian president might lose his powers to unilaterally appoint service chiefs if a bill in the Senate scales through
- The bill is sponsored by the minority leader of the red chambers, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe
- The bill seeks to ensure that service chiefs are made subject to recommendations by the Armed Forces Service Commission
A bill in the Nigerian Senate seeks to clip the powers of the president to ensure security appointments is not concentrated in one region of the country.
The bill sponsored by the minority leader of the upper chamber, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is tagged: “Armed Forces Service Commission and other related matter 2020.”
Sources in the know say Abaribe's bill was prompted by public complains of non-adherence to federal character principle in the appointment of service chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari.
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If the bill scales through, the appointment of Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Air Staff, Chief of Naval Staff, Director of Military Intelligence and heads of other arm-bearing security agencies shall be made subject to recommendations by the Armed Forces Service Commission.
The commission will be saddled with the responsibility of ensuring that federal character principle is applied in the selection of the service chiefs.
Daily Sun reports that the bill has already passed first reading.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Senate is seeking the re-establishment of a military base at the Sambisa forest borders as part of its suggestions to end insurgency in the northeast.
The Senate's resolution was unanimously adopted following the debate on Boko Haram's recent attack on Garkida a town in Adamawa state.
In a related development, about 18 participants have graduated from a four weeks training organised by the Defence Space Administration (DSA) Abuja which focused on image and terrain analysis as well as defence mapping.
Director of earth observation in the DSA, Air Vice Marshal Emmanuel Chukwu stated that troops at the front-line fighting insurgency need intelligence to succeed.
His words: “The DSA is established to support them with geospatial intelligence for them to know how the enemies manoeuvre through satellite imagery and so on and so forth.
“This course is meant to build the capacity of our boys in doing that. We have facilities. With this training, they will be able to produce the imagery and all the geospatial intelligence required for those at the war front to prosecute the insurgency.”
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