Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - An ethnic choice?

I agree entirely,  Oga. As I said in my first response to you, it wastes talent and destroys institutional memories. I don't know in what other country this tradition exists. But I won't be surprised if we copied it from Britain. 

Farooq 

Twitter: @farooqkperogi
Blog: www.farooqkperogi.com


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On Sun, May 30, 2021, 1:36 PM Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Farooq:

I let the response dies off as I was actually pondering not over the procedure but the rupture it creates. You forfeit loyalty and commitment in the way this is done.  And you encourage corruption. Why do you want to fight the Boko Haram or not steal security money if you can be retired that way? This was where I headed—how a system sabotages itself by its silly procedure.

In all political systems, any form of destabilization eventually becomes part of a decline process.

TF

 

From: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of "Farooq A. Kperogi" <farooqkperogi@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 12:29 PM
To: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - An ethnic choice?

 

There's nothing "ethnic" about this since,  in any case, several Northern officers are also affected.

 

As I pointed out yesterday in response to Professor Falola, it's a longstanding tradition in the Nigerian military--and paramilitary forces-- that when a junior officer is elevated to the head, all the senior officers have to retire. It happened in every administration. Every damn administration. 

 

During Obasanjo's and Jonathan's administrations, the tradition disproportionately affected Northern officers, but it also affected Southern officers. 

 

I recall writing a cover story in 2000 for the Weekly Trust about the massive number of senior military officers from Muslim Northern Nigeria who were retired when Obasanjo appointed junior officers from the Middle Belt and the South to headships of military and paramilitary institutions. 

 

Farooq 

 

Twitter: @farooqkperogi
Blog: www.farooqkperogi.com


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On Sun, May 30, 2021, 1:03 PM Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovdepoju@gmail.com> wrote:

Could someone please help me respond directly to Abdullah's question?

On Sun, May 30, 2021, 12:04 Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdullah@gmail.com> wrote:

Can this be ethnic when there are other so-called Northerners passed over? 

 

On Sat, 29 May 2021 at 2:55 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

The 24 Army Officers Buhari Bypassed Over Ethnic, Religious Sentiments To Appoint Lesser Qualified Yahaya As Army Chief
http://saharareporters.com/2021/05/28/revealed-24-army-officers-buhari-bypassed-over-ethnic-religious-sentiments-appoint-lesser


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