Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to fire the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami; Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (rtd); as well as the National Secretary Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (retd.).

According to the group, the three members of the presidential cabinet have failed in terms of suppressing the security challenges plaguing the nation.

National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, made this known in a chat with Journalists  on Wednesday.

Earlier on Wednesday, Buhari sacked the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammed Nanono (Kano State); and his Power counterpart, Saleh Mamman (Taraba State), according to presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina.

Adesina also announced that the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abubakar, has been redeployed to the Ministry of Agriculture while the Minister of State for Works, Abubakar Aliyu is to take over as Minister of Power.

“I wish to reiterate once more, that this process shall be continuous,” Adesina also quoted the President as saying at the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday.

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The two ministers were in August 2019 sworn in as part of the over 40 ministers who make up the current Federal Executive Council.

In a chat with our correspondent, Onwubiko said the dismissal of the two ministers was long overdue, describing them as “collosal failures”, noting that food prices have skyrocketed in the last two years and “distribution of electricity is criminally unstable just as the prices are skyrocketed without commensurate services.”

The group’s coordinator stated that there was the need to probe the two ministries following the sacking of Nanono and Mamman due to alleged financial misappropriation.

“The Minister of Defence and the NSA to the President should be sacked. There is no doubt that students are constantly kidnapped and the security situation in Nigeria has become like a war situation and deteriorated almost to a point that the President is openly accused of undermining national security.

“The NSA should have been sacked about two years ago…the country has never had it so bad in terms of security threats. Borno, Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna are all under the control of terrorists and even Nigerian Defence Academy was not spared of the disgraceful attacks by terrorists.

“The fact that the justice minister justified the illegal rendition and abduction by government of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, (Nnamdi Kanu), from Nairobi, Kenya means that the justice minister is grossly incompetent and unfit for that high office,” Onwubiko said.