The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Lucky Irabor has called on the military authorities to obey the court judgement in favour of 38 senior officers of the Nigerian Army and grant them voluntary retirement.
Irabor made the request in a letter he wrote to the Defence Minister, General Bashir Salihi Magashi (rtd) to revisit the issues surrounding the “arbitrary” retirement of the 38 officers.
His action followed the failure of the Nigerian Army to recall the “wrongfully” retired officers after a series of intervention by the minister of justice and the attorney-general of the federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami based an industrial court verdict.
Among those sacked “arbitrarily” by the Nigerian Army authorities in 2016 were nine major generals, 10 brigadier generals, colonels and a major.
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The authorities of the Nigerian Army had ignored the plight of the “victimised” officers, the verdict of the court and the intervention of the National Assembly (NASS) to have them reinstated as ordered by different courts.
In the letter to the defence minister with reference No. CDS/8/A, General Irabor cited the disobedience to court order on the reinstatement, the intervention of the justice minister and other appeals to President Muhammadu Buhari on the plight of the officers.
The letter reads in part: “Meanwhile, to resolve and ensure compliance of the judgement, the Honourable Minister of Justice also intervened by imploring the Nigerian Army through the CDS to comply with the subsisting court judgement.
