The United States and the United Kingdom have expressed concern about probable terrorist strikes in the Federal Capital Territory. The Forum of Retired Diplomats in Nigeria, a group of former Nigerian diplomats, has responded (FCT).
Last Sunday, the US Embassy in Nigeria warned Americans residing there of potential terrorist strikes on Abuja.
Similar alarms had been sounded in the UK, Ireland, Bulgaria, Germany, Denmark, and Finland.
On Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari reassured Nigerians of his administration’s commitment to maintaining security and stability in the nation.
However, the group said that Buhari was handling the situation with kid gloves in a statement released on Saturday by its National Coordinator, Ibrahim Kazaure.
They insisted that the country’s security architecture had collapsed and in dire need of rebootThey insisted that the country’s security architecture had collapsed and in dire need of reboot
The former diplomats, therefore, asked the President to sack all the security chiefs, and rejig the security architecture.
The statement read: “As diplomats who had served our country meritoriously within and outside our foreign missions at different times in history, we wish to appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to take the alert of the possible terror attack on Nigeria seriously that we have seen from him so far.
“We have watched with keen interest the posture of the federal government since the alert by the United States Government, we wish to state that given our passion for our dear country, we are visibly worried about the posture of the federal administration toward the development
“Watching from the vantage position given where we had variously worked before retirement, we humbly appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of national interest, sack the National Adviser, Monguno and the security chiefs.
“This should be immediately followed by a sweeping reform in the security sector through the restructuring of the entire security architecture. This becomes necessary given that the security network in the country has collapsed.”
