Prof. Usman Yusuf, a public affairs analyst and member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has demanded that military high command resign in response to an unintentional bombing that occurred on Sunday at Tudun Biri village in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing 85 villagers and injuring several more.
“This is reckless,” he declared on Tuesday’s Politics Today show on Channels Television, bemoaning the fact that Nigerians were being killed by the military, which was supposed to defend them from outside dangers.
According to Yusuf, all military commanders in other countries would have submitted their letters of resignation in response to the tragedy that has plunged the nation into sadness.
“Everyone in the line of command will be dismissed; they will all resign. The President will end his vacation and head back home, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), and everyone else will go,” he declared.
Three weeks after taking office as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Bola Tinubu named a new group of service chiefs in June.
The analyst reiterated what he had said earlier, saying, “Heads must roll—all of them should go, including the CDS, the Chief of Army Staff, the GOC, and the operatives.”
On Tuesday, the families of the murdered victims and the injured were visited in hospitals in Kaduna by Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, the COAS, and General Christopher Musa, the CDS.
