Residents of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital have thrown their weight behind their representatives, Hon. Mohammed Monguno and Hon. Ahmed Jaha over a motion they put before the House which was unanimously adopted, seeking the sacking of the service chiefs as a result of the continued state of insecurity in northeast Nigeria.
Residents told newsmen that they are standing by the representatives because their position was expected of them as representatives of the people.
According to them, the people of the northeast Nigeria have been crying over killings of innocent souls for too long but the service chiefs, particularly Sadiq Abubakar, the Chief of Air Staff and T.Y. Buratai, the Army Chief who are both from the northeast could not come together to salvage their people from the horror of attacks by Boko Haram.
Salisu Abdullahi, a pharmacist at the Open Air theatre in Maiduguri told newsmen that he travels every week to Kano to buy drugs but since the attacks on the Maiduguri – Damaturu road started, he has not able to travel.
“’ I have made arrangements with some people to send the drugs but we always have problem as they sometimes mix these drugs with fake drugs. Sometimes the drivers who bring the drugs would begin to tell you stories of how police or soldiers would stop them and took some expensive drugs and what have you.