Nigerian Army denies ethno-religious undertone in Jaji’s redeployment

The director of Military Intelligence, Major General Ahmed Jibrin, has explained that the redeployment of two commanders at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji Kaduna state had no undertones of any kind.
He says contrary to speculations by some groups that the redeployment had ethno-religious undertones; it was a measure to pave way for the investigation set up by the military into the bomb blasts that rocked the Saint Andrews Protestant Church at the cantonment.
The defence headquarters had ordered the re-deployment of the Commandant of the College, Air -Vice Marshall Abdullahi Kure, and the Corps Commander infantry; Major General Muhammad Isa, following the incident on November the 25th.
Meanwhile leading religious organisations in the country have also disagreed on the re-deployment.
The Jama’tu Nasril Islam (JNI) and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) differed over the removal of the army officers following the bombing of the church inside the military cantonment.
JNI’s Secretary-General, Dr Khalid Aliyu while condemning the Jaji blasts said the military authorities were in a haste to remove the two officers when the panel investigating the incident is yet to submit its report.
On his part, the chairman of the CAN, Kaduna state chapter, Reverend Samuel Kujiyat said the removal is in order considering the embarrassment the bomb attack caused the military and the country in general.
He added that no group or religion should give any ethno-religious interpretation to their removal.