By Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja.<\/p>\n
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The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has raised the alarm over the increase in attacks by Boko Haram and Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) on military facilities in the North-east, describing it as a national embarrassment.<\/p>\n
CUPP, in a statement Sunday by its National Spokesperson, Ikenga Ugochinyere, said that the opposition parties received with shock the news of the attack on a Nigerian military base in Meitele, Borno State by Boko Haram\/ISWAP fighters and the killing over 100 soldiers.<\/p>\n
According to him, \u201cIt is most heart-rending to realise that this attack happened same week some of our nation\u2019s military service chiefs were frolicking at the APC political party campaign function in the Presidential Villa.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ugochinyere expressed shock by the \u2018dishonourable silence\u2019 of the federal government on the attacks which only became prominent on the social media after the terrorist group released very gory videos of some of these attacks.<\/p>\n
He stated: \u201cFor President Buhari to only summon service chiefs for a briefing five days after such a calamity clearly shows the slow response time of this administration to national emergencies and lack of capacity to meet up with the fast pace of developments which affect the lives of citizens.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hereby call on President Buhari to salvage the last vestiges of honour left for his regime by immediately sacking the service chiefs, the Inspector General of Police, Chairman of EFCC and Comptroller General of Customs who have at one time or the other found playing politics with their offices instead of doing their jobs with every sense of neutrality.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis action will both raise the morale of our troops in the fronts that there are consequences for commanders who fail them and also give Nigerians and the international community the confidence that heads of security agencies will be neutral during the fast-approaching general election where the president and his party are headed for defeat.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe heads of security agencies in Nigeria are now more interested in obtaining intelligence on the meetings of opposition leaders than on the activities of the Boko Haram.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police and State Security Services are now more interested in hounding and intimidating opposition leaders and activists than they are in identifying and neutralising the activities of the terrorist group.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a national disgrace especially with the loud mouthing of an outgoing regime which had claimed the group was degraded and technically defeated after alleged misappropriation of billions of dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n
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