Tinubu sacks service chiefs, dissolves boards of MDAs , Appoints New Ones ( SEE LIST)

There was a bulk  of the sack in the nation’s security architecture, and ministries and parastatals, yesterday. There was a clean sweep as President Bola Tinubu retired all the service chiefs, advisers, and the Comptroller-General of Customs, and dissolved boards of Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs and parastatal.

 

The president also replaced some top military commanders in a move that shook the security firmament of the country.

President Tinubu, who recently ordered the security chiefs to synergise and crush oil thieves and criminals, ordered the changes shortly before jetting out to France, on his first foreign trip as elected head of state.

 

 

According to a statement on behalf of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, by Mr. Willie Bassey, Director of Information, Tinubu “approved the immediate retirement of all service chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, Advisers, Comptroller-General of Customs from service as well as their replacements with immediate effect.”

 

 

Those retired, yesterday, included Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Amao; and Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba.

 

 

 

 

 

New service chiefs

 

 

 

The newly appointed service chiefs are:

 

lMallam Nuhu Ribadu, National Security Adviser

 

lMaj. Gen. C.G Musa, Chief of Defence Staff

lMaj. Gen. T. A Lagbaja, Chief of Army Staff

lRear Admiral E. A Ogalla, Chief of Naval Staff

lAVM H.B Abubakar, Chief of Air Staff
lDIG Kayode Egbetokun, Acting Inspector-General of Police

lMaj. Gen. EPA Undiandeye, Chief of Defence Intelligence

lAdeniyi Bashir Adewale, Ag. Comptroller-General of Customs.

 

 

Other top appointments are as listed below

 

 

lCol. Adebisi Onasanya, Brigade of Guards Commander

lLt. Col. Moshood Abiodun Yusuf, 7 Guards Battalion, Asokoro, Abuja.

 

lLt. Col. Auwalu Baba Inuwa, 177 Guards Battalion, Keffi, Nasarawa State

 

lLt. Col. Mohammed J. Abdulkarim, 102 Guards Battalion, Suleja, Niger

 

lLt. Col. Olumide A. Akingbesote, 176 Guards Battalion, Gwagwalada, Abuja

 

 

Similarly, the President approved the appointments of other military officers in the Presidential Villa as follows:

 

Maj. Isa Farouk Audu, (N/14695) Commanding Officer State House Artillery

 

lCapt. Kazeem Olalekan Sunmonu (N/16183), Second-in-Command, State House Artillery

 

lMaj. Kamaru Koyejo Hamzat (N/14656), Commanding Officer, State House Military Intelligence

 

lMaj. TS Adeola (N/12860), Commanding Officer, State House Armament

 

lLt. A. Aminu (N/18578) Second-in-Command, State House Armament.

 

 

 

Also, President Tinubu approved the appointments of two additional special advisers and two senior assistants. They are:
lHadiza Bala Usman, Special Adviser, Policy Coordination

lHannatu Musa Musawa, Special Adviser, Culture and Entertainment Economy

lSenator Abdullahi Abubakar Gumel, Senior Special Assistant, National Assembly Matters (Senate)
lMr. Olarewaju Kunle Ibrahim, Senior Special Assistant, National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives)
“The appointed service chiefs, the Inspector-General of Police and the Comptroller-General of Customs are to act in their positions, pending their confirmation in accordance with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” the statement added.