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Military authorities have retired the former General Officer Commanding the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, Maj. Gen. Abubakar Mohammed.
The soldiers, who fired shots at Mohammed, in Maiduguri, were convicted for mutiny and other offences such as insubordination .
Before the incident soldiers at Maimalari Cantonment had complain of insufficient ammunition food and allowances. The visit of the GOC was said to have coincided with the arrival of death soldiers killed at chibok on the night of 13 may, 2014.
From investigations conduced it was revealed that Mohammed was retired quietly by top military source in Abuja that the Army authorities after he was recalled to the Headquarters of the Nigerian Army without posting for months after the soldiers’ attempt on his life.
The source said, “The Maj. Gen. has been retired; you don’t expect that to be made public; issues of retirement especially in the military are confidential. The man was at the Army headquarters for some time. He was awaiting posting then but he was eventually retired about a month ago.”
Meanwhile, the NLC, TUC and human rights lawyers have urged the Presidency and the Army Council chaired by the Minister of Defence to prevail on the military authorities to spare the lives of the 12 soldiers.
The lawyers are three Senior Advocates of Nigeria–Olisa Agbakoba, Femi Falana and Sebastian Hon – as well as Fred Agbaje and Monday Ubani.
In fact, Agbakoba, who flayed the judgment threatened to go to court to seek justice for the convicts.
He said that the process through which the court martial passed the sentences on the soldiers was unconstitutional.
Although those soldiers were wrong, something definitely arouse their actions and if that root cause isn't treated, more of this insurbordinate actions will occur in a better fashioned manner.
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