A spiritual leader, Satguru
Maharaj Ji, on Monday advised President Muhammadu Buhari on how best to tackle
insecurity in the country.
He said it was high time
President Buhari made Nigerian Army rank above their counterparts in the world,
in welfare, to improve their productivity.
Maharaj Ji spoke with journalists
on Monday at his missionary village along Ibadan-Lagos expressway.
According to the cleric, his
appeal was against the backdrop of a statement made by the Chief of Army Staff,
Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, that there is an inadequate commitment by soldiers
involved in the war against insurgents. https://dailypost.ng/2019/06/24/flush-lazy-soldiers-buratai-charges-commanders/
Maharaj Ji, however, said the
need to improve the welfare of officers of the Nigerian Army was long overdue.
He stated that this should start
from conducive accommodation, good healthcare and free education for their
children.
“The maintenance and
sustainability of the Nigerian Army as the nation’s defence must be locally
self-motivated and controlled to gradually become one strong entity free from
any external pressure that could influence coups which were based on ethnic,
tribal and religious sentiments.
“The soldiers lacked responsible
nationalistic leadership purview, training, orientation and proper history of
pre-colonial and post-independence of Nigeria and Africa and that is why we were
unable to get there after about ten military governments.
“I beg President Buhari and other
stakeholders in the polity to seriously look into General Buratai’s statement
by committing towards improvements in the Nigerian Army to make it one of the
most exciting and educative national institution and to ensure the safety and
territorial integrity of Nigerians and Nigeria,” he said.
Going further, Maharaj Ji said
the murder of Mrs Funke Olakunrin by suspected herdsmen was a slap on the face
of the Yoruba nation and its tradition.
He implored President Buhari to
quickly consider the establishment of State Police so as to stop the “insanity”
that could not only totally tarnish his image as a statesman but also turn the
odds against his regime for being sectional and insensitive.
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