President Goodluck Jonathan has called upon the military service chiefs in the country to work together to ensure that the insurgency in the country is curtailed.
He blamed non cohesion in the activities of the security forces and security lapses as the reason why Boko Haram successfully attacked an Air Force base in Borno last year.
The President made the remarks while inaugurating the Air Force Comprehensive school in Yola, Adamawa on Tuesday.
He warned the security forces against rivalry capable of slowing down the fight against Boko Haram.
The President said, “We will work with them to make sure that we overcome these challenges. One of the reasons that made me to uplift the present Chief of Defence Staff from the Chief of Air Staff is that I noted very carefully that in terms of managing resources, he tried.
“And I believe that with him now taking charge as the Chief of Defence Staff, working with other men that have been properly briefed about how they conduct their work, I know that the Nigerian Armed Forces will be a different Armed Forces.
“I urge you to cooperate. Sometimes we hear about some kind of mutual and individual competition among Service Chiefs and security personnel. But this time around, we will not tolerate any unnecessary competition that will bring retrogression to this country.
“We charge you to work together because our country is exposed to cancer and I told the former chief of defence staff when I came back from a meeting in France, that was the time they attacked our five helicopters, and a journalist asked me, Mr. President is it not shameful? And I asked him, If you were me, how would you have felt? And I believe we will no longer experience that kind of situation. That happened because of some obvious lapses.
“We will make sure we work with the National Assembly, we will work with the Service Chiefs and other senior military personnel, we will work with our traditional rulers and governors and senior citizens to see that we move our country to the next level.”
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