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EXPOSED: Buratai, Olonisakin, Two Other Service Chiefs Get Eight Flashy Vehicles, Over 40 Soldiers, More As New Retirement Benefits

SaharaReporters obtained the new HTACOS 2017 which also reveals that the military chiefs will get security staff of over 40 soldiers as well as domestic and foreign medical cover.

The Chief of the Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, along with the other military chiefs, have been awarded four Sport Utility Vehicles, four Peugeot cars, among other juicy retirement benefits, according to the Harmonised and Conditions of Service for Officers, which their istration revised.

SaharaReporters obtained the new HTACOS 2017 which also reveals that the military chiefs will get security staff of over 40 soldiers as well as domestic and foreign medical cover.

The document shows that the brand new SUVs to be given to Buratai; the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Abayomi Olonisakin; the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice iral Ibok-Ete Ibas; and the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, will be replaced every four years at the military's expense.

President Muhammadu Buhari appointed the defence chiefs on July 13, 2015, and despite the worsening insecurity in the country, Buhari has retained the service chiefs generally perceived by Nigerians to have run out of ideas.

The country has been in the grip of the Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East and banditry in the North-West, with the National Assembly, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and many notable Nigerians calling for the replacement of the service chiefs.

Meanwhile, the current service chiefs revised the previous 2012 conditions and replaced them with the 2017 HTACOS, which now makes them entitled to the juicy retirement benefits.

According to the HTACOS 2017 obtained by SaharaReporters, Section 11 explains how the military will bear the heavy cost of the many exorbitant retirement benefits lined up for the service chiefs.

The document partly reads, “Retirement benefits for CDS and service chiefs; the following benefits shall be applicable; one bullet-proof SUV or equivalent vehicle to be maintained by the Service and to be replaced every four years. Two; Peugeot 508 or equivalent backup vehicle; three, retention of all military uniform and accoutrement to be worn for appropriate ceremonies.

“Also, five domestic aides (two service cooks, two stewards and a civilian gardener); an Aide-de-Camp/Security Officer; a Special Assistant of Lieutenant or Captain or equivalents or Personal Assistant; also, a Standard Guard of nine soldiers.

“Three service drivers; one service orderly; escorts (to be provided by appropriate military units/ formation as the need arises; retention of personal firearms (on his demise the personal firearm(s) shall be retrieved by the relevant Service and also; a free medical cover in Nigeria and abroad.”

From the Harmonised and Conditions of Service for Officers, soldiers, airmen and ratings 2012, the military made provision for only Peugeot cars, and some other benefits, but it did not include the bullet-proof SUVs, the standard guard of nine soldiers and the free medical cover in and outside Nigeria.

https://saharareporters.com/2021/01/21/exposed-buratai-olonisakin-two-other-service-chiefs-get-eight-flashy-vehicles-over-40

It is Well!

Let them do as they want.
The Day ALMIGHTY Baba calls anyone of them over, We will see if all these entitlements will follow them to the grave.

What is Most Important in the life of a Human is to be secured For Eternity

These ones are more or less military kings. .

thebosstrevor1:
This is no news.

They deserve anything...i when the former chief of air staff( Air Chief Marshal Alex Sabundu Badeh) died like a chicken in his farm.

We need to protect these guys especially in this period where they are possible victims of attack

So what about taxpayers dying in the farms like rabbits also?

This is no news.

They deserve anything...i when the former chief of air staff( Air Chief Marshal Alex Sabundu Badeh) died like a chicken in his farm.

We need to protect these guys especially in this period where they are possible victims of attack

this is huge.

Nothing mega, if you know what a permanent secretary goes home with.

With all the monies they have cornered in the name of fighting insurgents, they are still getting exotic cars as parting gifts.

Why not just include the Defense ministry budget in their retirement benefits as a token of appreciation for the well deserved 'victory' against insurgencies and the relative peace and tranquility in the north

Mtsuuu... Misplaced priority. we the masses keep dying like chickens and yet no one cares, bt because a chief of Army, Air or Naval Staff retires he gets all these. Allah would Judge u all and we shall all for our deeds.

Its their money to steal. Let them enjoy it. Baba is truly an incorruptible man indeed !!!

For doing what exactly?
People who should have been fired without benefits a long time ago, with the exception of maybe the Chief of Air Staff

Egunje

Even US president no get this kind retirement benefits
My fellow Nigerians don't over think nor worry yourself about the country. It is dead and gone. Hustle for yourself, make money and japa.
This was how our parents saw this country and it was deteriorating daily, till we were born and found ourselves in this mess of a country. And it won't get any better. The country won't change in our time.. It is a country designed to fail, and it's obvious.
I repeat, hustle and save money to abandon ship. I repeat, abandon ship

These buhari services chiefs don't deserve anything, because they're not working.

The Nigerian system is dangerously skewed against the masses.

Well deserved....

Wow, why can't they just go back to being civilians... They know that the atttovities they have committed is much

Misplaced priorities.

Are u telling me they dont have their own money to buy such for theirselves?

Nawa o..

Nigeria.

Tueh

This country matter weak me

I pity who still dey carry nigeria matter for head..

Non sense

And teachers won't be paid salaries, paying them their pension is a problem and most of them die without collecting their gratuities

[[s]quote author=Sunisonflex39 post=98297661]Are u telling me they dont have their own money to buy such for theirselves?

Nawa o..

Nigeria.

Tueh

This country matter weak me

I pity who still dey carry nigeria matter for head..[/quote][/s]

After cashing out from from Nigerians in term of the widespread insecurity they cant contain, they are still going to take out another economic burden on this nation as those vehicles are gonna take out from the defense budget.

Wahala for who no be military chief o

God dey..the good thing is, they will still die one day

It would have been better if the military chiefs made the country safe for all so that after retirement, they won't be moving around with a retinue of soldiers.

For doing what exactly ? Making the country insecure?

Buhari is taking us forward

Una no see wetin dem do former chief of staff badeh... A four star general murdered like that...

okay

The5DME:
[[s]quote author=Sunisonflex39 post=98297661]Are u telling me they dont have their own money to buy such for theirselves?

Nawa o..

Nigeria.

Tueh

This country matter weak me

I pity who still dey carry nigeria matter for head..[/s]

whats the meaning of this one..
do u want to be unfortunate?