Military authorities have retired the former General Officer Commanding the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, Maj. Gen. Abubakar Mohammed.
Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress and human rights lawyers pleaded for the pardon of 12 soldiers who were sentenced to death by a military court on Monday.
The soldiers, who had on May 14, 2014 fired shots at Mohammed, in Maiduguri, were convicted for mutiny and other offences such as insubordination .
Investigations revealed that Mohammed was retired after he was
recalled to the Headquarters of the Nigerian Army without posting for months after the soldiers’ attempt on his life.
recalled to the Headquarters of the Nigerian Army without posting for months after the soldiers’ attempt on his life.
Investigations have revealed that the General Officer Commanding of the 7th Division, at Maiduguri’s Maimalari
Barracks Maj. Gen. Abubakar Mohammed has been retired by the Nigerian Military.
A source revealed that Mohammed was retired last month after being recalled to the Headquarters of the Nigerian Army without posting for months after the May 14th incidence in Maiduguri.
It was gathered from a top military source in Abuja that the Army authorities quietly
retired him.
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.”
It was gathered from a top military source in Abuja that the Army authorities quietly retired him last month.
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.”
1 comment:
There is strong question-begging stance in this report. If this major-general is proven to be a boko haram sympathiser, then what action has the military, or rather, the government taken prior to the decision to retire him? Is retirement a good resolve to for an official charged with securing lives and properties safely or to be processed for complicity to wholesale murder and insurgency?
Someties it seems either the government don't have a clue or they shy away from doing the right thing.
It is a viable and meaningful advocacy to grant reprieve to the soldiers sentenced to their death unwittingly in the face of evidence such as led to their offence of mutiny in the first place.It will be hypothetically 'throwing good after bad' if they are slaughtered for no just cause. They must have identified the lapse in chain of command or a betrayal of signed-up national patriotism.
Olubunmi.
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