The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has ordered all military officers whose rank supersedes that of the newly appointed Service Chiefs to voluntarily retire on or before July 3 2023.
The order was contained in a memo signed by Major General Y. Yahaya on behalf of the Chief of Defence Staff, ordering all officers above that of NDA Regular Course 39 to submit their applications for voluntary retirement from Service with immediate effect.
According to the memo, the directive was aimed at upholding the tenets of the military profession which values hierarchy and service discipline, as such senior officers cannot take directives from their subordinates in the profession.
Recall that President Bola Tinubu retired all the former service chiefs on June 19 and approved the immediate replacement of the service chiefs with new ones as part of his reforms in the security sector.
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