A Northern group, ‘The Arewa Youth Assembly‘, has said the security advisory by the United States Embassy and the British High Commission to their citizens over an imminent terrorists’ attack in Abuja has vindicated their call for the sacking of the National Security Adviser, (NSA), Major-Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd).
Recall that the group had in August 2022 demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari should sack the NSA or face mass action.
The group had on August 1, handed down a 14-day ultimatum for the Federal Government and went ahead to protest the failure of the president to relieve the NSA of his job.
However, an issued statement by the Speaker of the Arewa Youth Assembly, Mohammed Danlami, in Kaduna yesterday, renewed the call for the immediate sack of the NSA, all Heads of the nation’s security intelligence – the Department of State Services (DSS), National Intelligence Agency (NSA) as well as the Service Chiefs – the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Farouk Yahaya, Chief of Air Staff, Air-Marshal Isiaka Amao and the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral Awwal Gambo.
In the interim, the organisation, comprising youths from the 19 northern States and the FCT, called on the President to relocate to Kaduna or even his home state of Katsina, since the people he entrusted to secure him and other Nigerians had proven to be incompetent.
According to the group, it is laughable that despite the huge allocation in the nation’s defence budget and procurement of equipment to aid intelligence-gathering, it had to be the intervention of the United States that exposed the planned terrorists’ attack.
They argued that for the US and UK to expose the security threat on Abuja, the seat of power, was an indication that all was not well with the Head of the nation’s security architecture.
