Hope Rises for Convicted Soldiers

Mon, Aug 3, 2015
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BREAKING NEWS, Security

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Cases of the soldiers either convicted or dismissed for their failure to fight Boko Haram insurgents are to be reviewed by the military authority just as the current military trails have been disbanded

THERE seems to be hope for some of the soldiers dismissed and convicted for refusing to fight Boko Haram. The Nigerian Army on Sunday, August 2, said that the soldiers who had disciplinary actions taken against them and those convicted at court martial, especially those handled under Kenneth Minimah, a retired lieutenant-general and the immediate past chief of Army Staff, COAS, would be reviewed.

Colonel Sani Usman, director of Army public relations, in a statement on Sunday, August 2, made the clarification in response to reports regarding the recent disciplinary actions by the army.

The statement said: “The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a correspondence making the rounds in some media regarding an administrative procedure to review some recent disciplinary cases in the Nigerian Army. For the avoidance of doubt, it should be noted that the Nigerian Army is reviewing all recent disciplinary cases due to the wave of litigations and petitions by some aggrieved personnel,” Usman said.

According to him, the public should not misconstrue the recent directive to mean total recall of dismissed and deserter soldiers.

Minimah made discipline through the court martial one of his cardinal strategies to restore confidence and professionalism during his time in the service, a strategy his successor, Major-General Tukur Buratai, has vowed to sustain.

The former COAS had during his handover to Buratai attributed his achievements to the collective efforts of the Nigerian Armed Forces and the discipline he instituted within the rank and file of the Nigerian Army through the court martial processes across the country.

— Aug 3, 2015 @ 13:20 GMT

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