{"id":287804,"date":"2020-12-01T13:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T12:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=287804"},"modified":"2020-12-01T13:30:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T12:30:34","slug":"borno-massacre-buhari-told-to-replace-service-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=287804","title":{"rendered":"Borno massacre: Buhari told to replace service chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Lagos State has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to rejig the national security architecture and replace the service chiefs with more capable hands to effectively tackle the country\u2019s security challenges.<br \/>\nThe SDP said this while condemning the gruesome killing of some rice farmers by suspected Boko Haram members in Zabarmari, Borno State, describing the act as \u2018extremely wicked\u2019.<br \/>\nThe party, in a statement issued by the State Party Chairman, Mr Femi Olaniyi and made available to NAN on Monday, said that the act must not be left unaddressed.<br \/>\nOlaniyi said that the party was seriously pained by the \u2018horrific killing\u2019 of the compatriots.<br \/>\nHe also said that the party was distressed by the continued killing and maiming of innocent Nigerians by insurgents and bandits.<br \/>\nOlaniyi said that SDP was particularly disturbed by what he called the government\u2019s failure to take decisive action against the insurgents in spite of a series of concerns raised by the Borno Governor, Babagana Zulum, over security compromises in the state.<br \/>\nThis, according to Olaniyi, has continued to embolden the insurgents to the extent that they now attack military formations, convoys of state governors and innocent citizens.<br \/>\nHe advised President Muhammadu Buhari to rejig the national security architecture and replace the service chiefs with more capable hands to effectively tackle the country\u2019s security challenges.<br \/>\nThe party chairman also advised the president to take more actions that would safeguard the lives of Nigerians.<br \/>\n\u201cMr President should immediately move to Zabarmari in Borno to empathise with the families of the victims and lead from the front to restore security in the area,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nOlaniyi expressed the party\u2019s condolences to the government and people of Borno over the unfortunate incident.<br \/>\nHe urged Nigerians to remain at alert and provide useful information for the security agencies in the fight against insurgency in the country.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Lagos State has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to rejig the national security architecture and replace the service chiefs with more capable hands to effectively tackle the country\u2019s security challenges. The SDP said this while condemning the gruesome killing of some rice farmers by suspected Boko Haram members in Zabarmari, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,37,41],"class_list":["post-287804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-boko-haram","tag-buhari"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/287805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}