NIGERIAN SOLDIERS PROTEST OVER NON REINSTATEMENT

Around 89 officers rejected for supposedly leaving the war zone in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, under the Nigerian Army Operation Zaman Lafiya, set out on a quiet challenge in Kaduna yesterday, encouraging the military powers to reestablish them to join their associates in the North East, in continuation of the war against insurrection.

President Muhammadu Buhari had before requested that every one of the troopers released in 2015 for losing ammo to Boko Haram guerillas in Cameroun ought to be reestablished, while the Army had in an update with reference number NA/COAS/GI/7/1 dated July 30, 2015 set up a board of trustees to screen instances of rejection from the operation.


The abused troopers who raged the premises of the secretariat of Kaduna State Correspondent's house of prayer of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) yesterday, talked through their representative, Warrant Officer (WO) Shehu Ibrahim, saying that the Army Committee met in Jaji, Kaduna, screened and pronounced them qualified to be restored. Be that as it may, they have not been gotten back to for no good reason to them.


He contended that it was after the freedom that the troopers were further moved to Kontagora on September 24, 2015 where they experienced a few weeks of retraining.

The warriors said the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 1 Division Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Major General Adeniyi Oyebade, at a point drafted an armed force officer to research their matter, which was finished.

In any case, when columnists reached the Army Assistant Public Relations Officer, One Division, Colonel Usman Abdul on the issue yesterday, he said: "It is just Army central command, Abuja, that can talk on this."

Ibrahim said, "After the re-punching, a rundown of posting was distributed where the names of 98 of us out of 4,000 warriors were excluded on the rundown, and we promptly conveyed the exclusion of our names to the notification of HQ NATRAC, and our names were gathered and sent to the Army Headquarters for consideration in the posting.

"Hours after the fact, that day, nine of the female warriors on the same 98 men rundown of exclusion with serial number 83-91 were singled out, presented on units and given N10,000 each in our vicinity, though we the remaining 89 male fighters were disregarded in Kontagora.

"We facilitate whined and the HQ NATRAC Commander, Brig. Gen. T.J Dauke instructed us to record our particulars and telephone numbers and about-face to our towns, that we would have been called upon, with no stipulation to particular date."