For disclosing the proposed visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Sambisa Forest, Borno State, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has slammed the Nigerian Army, describing the announcement asa security risk for the Commander-In-Chief.
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The group expressed this in a statement signed by its Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, where it told the Army to learn from their counterparts in other parts of the world.
“Although the event has since been held and the president was represented by a high-ranking Nigerian official, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) berates the way and manner the Nigerian Army made the president’s movement public ahead of the time in a zone that is yet to become completely secure. That publicity blitz on the president’s proposed visit to Sambisa was, to say the least, naïve, infantile and ill-advised.
“While it is true that presidents of countries who dispatched soldiers to war zones usually visit such dangerous places as the commanders-in-chief of the army, such visits are usually clandestine for obvious reasons. This explains why US President Lincoln’s visit to Antietam on October 3, 1862 was unannounced. The same Lincoln was protected by more than 100 US soldiers when he paid another surprise visit to Richmond on April 4, 1865,” it stated.
MURIC argued that neither the British nor American authorities announced Winston Churchill’s rendezvous with Franklin Roosevelt in Casablanca during World War II in January 1943.
“On Sunday, 25th May 2014, former US President Barrack Obama slipped into Afghanistan under cover of darkness.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
