Nigerian security chiefs are said to be convening for a national security emergency meeting as #EndBadGovernance protests turn deadly in several parts of the country.
The protests tagged “The Days of Rage” have raged on since August 1 despite calls by President Bola Tinubu asking the protests to be called off and a willingness to listen to their complaints.
On Tuesday, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, reportedly invited all heads of security forces in the country, including heads of intelligence agencies such as DSS, NIA, DIA, and the Inspector-General of Police, to the Defence Headquarters.
Other security chiefs attending are the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla, and the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, will be present.
Heads of Correctional Services, Immigration, Customs, NSCDC, and other paramilitary organizations have also been invited.
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“The meeting will start at any moment. It is a strategic meeting on implementing the order given by the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces,” an online news platform claimed insider sources revealed to it.
During Monday’s botched Federal Executive Council meeting, the president instead met with the Service Chiefs and reportedly ordered that the protest be mitigated.
General Musa, addressing pressmen after the meeting with the President, said reports of some protesters in northern Nigeria flying flags of the Russian Federation was a “treasonable felony.”
He said the Nigerian armed forces would not entertain any discussions regarding a change of government by violent means—as some seem to be calling for—and veered off to political issues when he advised Nigerians to be patient with the government, as one year was not enough for the government to fulfill its electoral promises.
The CDS immediately received knocks from democracy advocates, who chided him for politicizing a purely security role.
Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, in one of her harshest criticisms, suggested that the defense chief should be relieved.
Scores of persons have died and hundreds arrested from the protests. There has been reports of large scale looting and targeting of homes of political office holders especially in northern Nigeria.
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