The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of new Service Chiefs.
The confirmation hearing followed the consideration of the report of the Committee on Defence which recommended that they be confirmed as substantive chiefs of their respective forces in the military.
Recall that the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, had on Wednesday, penultimate week, referred the request of the President Muhammadu Buhari for the confirmation of the new service chiefs to the committee on Defence.
Lawan gave the committee, led by Senator Aliyu Wamakko, two weeks to carry out its assignment and report to the Senate in plenary.
The Senate confirmed the appointments both at the committee of the whole and at plenary on Tuesday following upon consideration of Wamakko report.
The new service chiefs are: Maj. Gen. Lucky Eluonye Onyenuchea lrabor (Chief of Defence Staff); Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru (Chief of Army Staff); Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo, (Chief of Naval Staff); and Air Vice Marshal Isiaka O. Amao as Chief of Air staff.
They replaced the former Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar.
Lawan asked the new service chiefs to take the war to the bandits and insurgents and dislodge them in their strongholds.
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