The Defence Headquarters has debunked a story circulating in the social media that some service chiefs have been retired and replaced.
Speaking to PRNigeria yesterday, the Director Defence Information, Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar described the rumours as baseless and unfounded.
He insisted that the service chiefs are still discharging their official responsibilities.
Rabe said: “It is disturbing and embarrassing the cooked up stories going round in the social media.
“There is no iota of truth in the misleading information. We ask the public to ignore the report as baseless and unfounded,” he concluded.
Some reports had alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the retirement from service of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Gabriel Olonisakin, and the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas.
The reports further claimed that the Minister of Defence, Brig.- Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali (rtd), had since sent letters to the Service Chiefs, wherein they were directed to handover on or before Friday, December 16.
The speculations alleged that the disengagements of Olonisakin and Ibas were based on their attaining the official age of retirement from the military.
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