Why Jonathan sacked service chiefs -Tsav

Former Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, has faulted the timing and the spirit behind the sack, recently, of the service chiefs, and the Inspector General of Police by President Goodluck Jonathan. Tsav linked the disengagement of the officers to the president’s plots to have easy ride in the 2011 presidential polls.

Tsav spoke in Kano during the weekend at a time, Second Republic Adviser, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai said the elevation of an officer of Igbo extraction to replace the former Chief of Army Staff, General Danbazau would not in any way endanger the cooperation and ongoing consultation between the North and the South east.

Speaking to the Daily Sun in Kano , the elder statesman noted that by early next year, the North will offer the slot of the vice president to the South east and by 2015, they will extend the Presidency to them.

Tsav held that, “the sack of Service Chiefs and the IGP was ill-timed and was neither centered on patriotism nor transparency. Rather, I see it as a grand plan by President Goodluck Jonathan to have it easy at the polls”
Tsav further said: “Unfortunately, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is not God, he is only a worldly president with specific period to rule. The action of the president reminds me of the sad days of the military when civil servants had no job security”.

He stated that, “We are talking of reformation of the Police, and Mr Onovo who is doing his best to achieve this, was not only removed but his DIGs and senior AIGs are being swept away by the tide to create room for an officer who made it possible for Jonathan to succeed Alamieyeseigha as governor after an Obasanjo’s carefully schemed impeachment”.

“This is unfair and negates our so-called war against social injustice. This is not the type of democracy we are yearning for. The sack is an act of selfishness and greed rather than in the interest of national security.”

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