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COMBATING BOKO HARAM: Angry Nigerian Soldiers Protest Deployment Of Death, Ground Airport, Threaten To Shoot GOC

Angry soldiers, over the weekend, risked court-martial and mutinied over what they regarded as “deployment of death”.
The angry “Special Forces” soldiers, according to reports, barricaded the Maiduguri International Airport.
The soldiers shot sporadically to protest their deployment from the state capital to another location, even threatened to shoot their superior officers in Maiduguri.
The soldiers lamented that they were being sent to sudden death at the front line after being posted to Maiduguri for 4 years without seeing their families or getting their benefits.
The aggrieved soldiers were meant to be posted to Marte Local Government Area.
They, however, regrouped and refused to board the aircraft prepared to convey them there.
The soldiers said that after spending over four years in Maiduguri, they expected to be allowed to go home and visit their families and friends instead of being reposted to face death.
Reacting to the development, a former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, when contacted by ElombahNews, said:
“Our soldiers deserve better. They must be treated with fairness, compassion, decency and respect.
“They must be paid their salaries and allowances when due and they must be honored for the sacrifices that they are making.
“They must not be treated like animals, or when killed, they must not be buried in secret mass graves like dogs.
“Nations are meant to honor their soldiers but here we humiliate, shame and disgrace them.
“This is unacceptable. Buhari has no respect for the military. He only uses them to intimidate innocent Nigerians and crush his enemies.”
Also, a political pundit, Mr. Ikechukwu Obi, lamented:
“Poor soldiers! Whatever would make them mutiny and risk a court-martial must be very serious!
“But I don’t understand the “not to be posted to face death” bit. Face death from a defeated enemy? I don’t get that.”
The Army spokesman, Gen. Texas Chukwu, meanwhile, declined comment at the development.
 Also, a political pundit, Mr. Ikechukwu Obi, lamented: “Poor soldiers! Whatever would make them mutiny and risk a court-martial must be very serious!

“But I don’t understand the “not to be posted to face death” bit. Face death from a defeated enemy? I don’t get that.”
The Army spokesman, Gen. Texas Chukwu, meanwhile, declined comment at the development.


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