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Borno elders under the umbrella of the Borno Elders Forum are demanding the trial of former President Goodluck Jonathan and his former service chiefs for the massacre in the North-East under their watch
Elders in Borno State under the aegis of Borno Elders Forum, want former President Goodluck Jonathan and immediate military service chiefs to be prosecuted for genocide. The group led by Gaji Galtimari, a retired ambassador, accused the Jonathan administration of deliberately allowing Boko Haram to massacre the people of North-East of Nigeria.
The elders, according to Premium Times, said the confession made by Alex Badeh, retired air chief marshal and immediate past chief of Defence Staff, that he presided over an ill-equipped military during his tenure, had exposed the wicked motives of the federal government of Nigeria under former President Jonathan to annihilate the North-East region by pushing soldiers to fight Boko Haram with faulty weapons.
The group said Badeh, despite being a son of the North-East, did not act well by remaining in office as defence chief when he knew the soldiers deployed to combat Boko Haram had no better weapons than the enemy.
The elders also advised Jonathan to apologise to Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, who was called all names when he blew the whistle that Nigerian soldiers were being outgunned by the Boko Haram terrorists because they lacked the right weapons and motivation to face the well-armed terrorists.
The aggrieved elders want a list of all Borno citizens affected by the insurgency compiled, while family members of those killed should be compensated for the deliberate killing of their relations. They also lampooned the past government and the military for deliberately pushing soldiers to slaughter, even as they said all the families of the fallen soldiers must be compensated adequately and declared as national heroes.
— Aug 5, 2015 @ 14:20 GMT
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