Anyone thinking of planning coup wasting time – Defence Minister, Musa reveals

The Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa, has warned that anyone readying a coup successful Nigeria is “wasting their time,” insisting that Nigerians would defy immoderate effort to overthrow antiauthoritarian rule.

Speaking during an interrogation connected Arise Television on Friday, Musa said ideology remained acold amended than subject regularisation and stressed that the Armed Forces were committed to protecting the country’s antiauthoritarian system.

The minister, who spoke astir a past coup probe successful which helium was involved, said helium and different elder officers were among those who uncovered and reported the coup plot, adding that helium besides chaired the investigative committee that handled the matter.

Musa described those progressive successful the alleged coup crippled arsenic “confused individuals” who misled inferior officers into participating successful the act.

The defence curate besides stated that members of the Armed Forces had been good catered for, noting that determination had been nary issues with salaries portion efforts were ongoing to amended allowances and supply much instrumentality for troops warring insecurity.

Musa maintained that immoderate effort to signifier a coup would fail, saying adjacent civilians would defy specified actions.

He said: “So I was fto go, and...