Ali Ndume, senator representing Borno south, says soldiers
have taken up the responsibilities of judges in his constituency.
In an interview with PUNCH, Ndume said victims of insurgency
prefer soldiers to handle administrative issues.
Ndume, who is the senate committee chairman on army, said
soldiers also handle marital matters.
“What I discovered now is that the victims prefer military
authorities to handle disbursement of relief materials and money because they
trust the soldiers that they would do justice to the donations,” the lawmaker
said.
“In my local government area, military officers go out of
their way, outside their duties, to gather children, teach them, and provide
free writing materials and books for them.
“In fact, soldiers have now taken up the responsibilities of
magistrates because couples now take issues bordering on their domestic affairs
to soldiers for peacemaking.
“Wives usually report their husbands to the soldiers so as
to help them settle their private affairs. This is because in my area, for
instance, we no longer have judges, teachers, health workers and even the local
government administrators because they are no longer there.”
When asked if the current service chiefs should be sacked
over their alleged failure to tackle the insurgency, Ndume said President
Muhammadu Buhari knows why he is still keeping them.
“Honestly, my own take on it is that the President knows
better. Assuming that people are saying that a set of army personnel that have
been fighting insurgency in the north-east should be changed so that new
tactics could be experimented, it would have been a different thing but when
they are saying that the heads of the military arms should be removed, it will
still be the same hierarchy because those who would replace them are still
within the system, and not from outside,” he said.
“The president, who appointed the current service chiefs,
knows why he is still keeping them. He actually knows better.”
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