NATIONAL: Your efforts not good enough for me, Buhari tells service chiefs

PRESIDENT Buhari may have finally heeded the advice from opinion moulders and senior citizens to sack his service chiefs following his subtle condemnation, for the first time in a long while, of those expected  to work with him to  secure the country.

There has been incessant demand for the sack of the service chiefs from various segments of the country following the growing insecurity across the nation.

But the president has turned a deaf ear to the demand, saying it’s his prerogative to decide whether to sack or retain the service chiefs.

But on Friday night,  Buhari expressed displeasure in the efforts of military service chiefs, by saying “their efforts are not good enough” for him.

The President spoke in an interview with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), clips of which were posted on his verified Twitter handle on Friday.

According to him, his administration is well aware of its responsibility to secure the country, provide peaceful atmosphere for citizens, adding that he was aware that there are still much to be done in delivering that responsibility.

“I meet them, we have security meetings from time to time, they must be very clear of my instructions. Their effort is not good enough for me.

“Our responsibility, I said, is to secure this country for all the citizens to do their businesses without any problem. We haven’t achieved that yet. We ‘ll keep on trying.

“We have a lot of work ahead of us and some of the things we may not say because I don’t want to compromise the security and the efforts being made by the law enforcement agencies, but really we are acutely aware of our responsibility; our responsibility is to secure the country. So we have a lot of work to do”, the President said.