Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
A group under the auspices of Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) on Monday said the call for the sack of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, by human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), was based on selfish interest rather than national interest.
The group, in a statement issued in Abuja by its Executive Secretary, Comrade Ikpa Isaac,
expressed regrets that the foremost human rights lawyer unwittingly fell into the trap of speaking for those that want to buy time for Boko Haram to regroup or has simply exposed himself as part of the nation’s problem since only those that are opposed to the defeat of the terrorists and the exposure of their sponsors are the ones demanding Buratai’s sack.
He noted that those behind the calls should have by now developed a capacity for feeling shame since they know that their demands have no connection with national interest but were instead borne out of malice for President Muhammadu Buhari, whom they want to deprive of his trusted aides.
According to the group, “For a man who mounts stiff defence of clients accused of corruption, Falana’s statement that accused, tried, condemned and sentenced the COAS to a sack in one breadth smacks of double standards and raises questions about the positions he had earlier taken on other national issues.”
CESJET lamented that selfish interest drove Falana to lend his voice to those seeking Buratai’s ouster by calling for his sack or resignation.
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