Nigerian military to court-martial over 100 soldiers for cowardice

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Nigeria Army" class="attachment-860x800 wp-post-image" height="169" scale="0" src="https://media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2013/04/nigeria-army.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="298" /></span><br /> <div class="caption" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigeria Army</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Nigerian military is in the process of constituting a trial panel to try over 100 soldiers said to have exhibited “acts of cowardice” and “disobeyed deployment directives” in Maiduguri on Saturday, reliable military insiders have said. The soldiers were among several hundred troops being deployed from the army’s 7th Division in Maiduguri to locations in Damboa and Gwoza for major operations planned to significantly rout the extremist Boko Haram sect from the areas. “But as we were about to depart, some of the soldiers began to behave funny,” a witness said. “They were acting in ways that were delaying the movement. This was a movement that had been timed and we had to arrive locations at a time that should coincide with other operational arrangements. And then these guys were slowing us down.” The witness said at a point, the commander of the troop became fed up with the antics of the “lazy soldiers” and he immediately ordered that they be disarmed, stripped of their uniforms and dropped from the operation. The rest of the detachment then continued the journey, our sources said. Other witnesses corroborated these disclosures. It is learnt that the Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, [an Air Marshall] the Chief of Army Staff,  Kenneth Minimah [a Lieutenant General], as well as other service chiefs have been briefed on the development. The military chiefs, insiders say, have since ordered the arrest, interrogation and court-martial of the erring soldiers, some of whom are said to have gone into hiding. When contacted, the spokesperson for the Defence Headquarters, Chris Olukolade, a Major General, said he was yet to be briefed on the matter. He however said, “Military personnel should be reminded that persons subject to military law risks death if found liable for refusing or inciting failure to perform military duties against the enemy in the course of the ongoing military operation.” Mr. Olukolade said any soldier or officer who fails to perform military duties or deserts his duty post risks dire consequences. “The military is a disciplined organization and we do not have room for indiscretions. Anyone who disobeys deployment directive or deserts his duty posts would be made to face due justice. “Indeed such deserters would be considered to have done evil similar to what terrorists are doing against the nation’s security. Act of cowardice and related indiscipline will not be condoned in the Nigerian armed forces. “While efforts are ongoing to improve on the available stock of weapons and equipment, no soldier or officer has been assigned to any duty without being duly armed. “Any soldier who subscribes to the excuse being peddled by some indiscipline ones would have himself to blame. “Soldiers are therefore warned that anyone who allows himself to be misled by enemies of the nation who have been trying to incite mutiny by various methods would face appropriate legal actions without any form of sentiment.” Mr. Olukolade urged the Nigerian media and Nigerians in general not to celebrate incidences of indiscipline within the nation’s security services, saying the security of all citizens depend significantly on the stability and discipline of the agencies. The Nigerian Army had in early July began the court–martialling of another 18 soldiers involved in an alleged mutiny in May, in which revolting troops opened fire at a car carrying the commanding general of the army’s 7 Division in Maiduguri, Borno State. Military sources had said at the time that the General Officer Commanding, GOC, of the newly-created 7 Division, Ahmadu Mohammed, a Major General, was targeted by soldiers who blamed him for the deaths of their colleagues. The attack in Maimalari cantonment, on May 14, angered the Nigerian military at a time the force came under international spotlight over the abduction of nearly 300 school girls in Chibok by the extremist Boko Haram sect. </span></div>

Nigerian military to court-martial over 100 soldiers for cowardice

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Chadian Soldiers Rescue And Free people kidnapped by Boko Haram

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="story-featured-image" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 15px; min-width: 378px !important; width: 368px;"> <img alt="Arrested Boko Haram suspects and soldiers" class="attachment-bigstoryimage" height="225" scale="0" src="http://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Arrested-Boko-Haram-suspects-and-soldiers-360x225.jpg" style="border: none; float: left; margin-right: 10px; padding: 4px;" width="360" /><div class="featured-image-caption" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 5px 10px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Arrested Boko Haram suspects and soldiers<br /><small style="font-weight: normal;"><em>| credits: Defence HQ Nigeria</em></small></span></div> </div> <div style="float: left; padding: 10px 18px 5px 0px; width: 370px;"> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7167863529667065" data-ad-slot="6184555097" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="display: inline-block; height: 140px; width: 370px;"><ins id="aswift_0_expand" style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 140px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 370px;"><ins id="aswift_0_anchor" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: none; display: block; height: 140px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 370px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="140" hspace="0" id="aswift_0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_0" scrolling="no" style="left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" vspace="0" width="370"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div> <div id="nrelate_flyout_placeholder"> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chad’s troops have rescued most of the 100 people kidnapped by the Boko Haram sect, following a successful military operation against the sect.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The terrorist group earlier this month kidnapped 100 people, according to a Nigerian security official and a local self-defence member.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Associated Press reported that the rescue operation took place on Friday.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The abductions took place on August 10 in Doron Baga in the Kukawa area near the border with Chad, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the terrorists were stopped as they crossed the Chad border by Chadian soldiers who killed most of them and set free most of the captives.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Muhammed Gava, a member of the anti-Boko Haram vigilante movement, said 20 females and about 70 young men had been forced to board speed boats in Lake Chad, which lies on the border between Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A source, who spoke to journalists in Maiduguri, said the insurgents attacked the village in the evening and took away some boys and young men.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some of those that fled the area that were sighted in Maiduguri after the attack, said they had to flee because of the constant attacks by the insurgents.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div>

Chadian Soldiers Rescue And Free people kidnapped by Boko Haram

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Chief Butcher of Boko Haram Sect Speaks

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="post-header cf" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #606569; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/boko-badman.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Confession of Boko Haram chief butcher"><img alt="boko badman" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="336" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/boko-badman-702x336.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; 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color: #3a4149; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0769em; line-height: 1.857; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">              </span></a><a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=75748#comments" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #a6a6a6; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; color: #3a4149; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0769em; line-height: 1.857; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong></a><a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=75748#comments" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #a6a6a6; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; color: #3a4149; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0769em; line-height: 1.857; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">                •Suspect: ‘It takes me just 2 minutes to slaughter human being’</strong></a></header><div class="post-container cf" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.857; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.857; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Chief butcher of Balmo Forest in <span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.857;">Bauchi State, Zach­ariah Mohamadu (aka Ardo), arrested by the police on July 15, said yesterday it took him just two minutes to slaughter a human being. The suspect disclosed this to journalists in Abuja.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.857;">Mohamadu, aged 30, who hails from Darazo Local Government Area of the state, however, said he had slaughtered only five persons. The chief butcher said he had been a staunch member of Boko Haram for over two years. He operated with four other </span></span><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.998001098632813px;">professional</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.857;"> butchers, Garba, Hassan, Muhammadu and Isawa, to carry out the crime. He said the four colleagues would just tie the victims very well and prepare them for the slab. He said it is only after they have finished tying the victims that he would be called to perform his duty of slaughtering them even without remorse.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.857; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Speaking through an interpreter, the suspect said: “My real name is Zacha­riah Mohamadu, but I am popularly known as Ardo in the Boko Haram sect. I am 30 years old and I am an indigene of Kaimari in Darazo Local Government Area. I have been a mem­ber of the terrorists group for the past two years and I started working with them at Daura in Bauchi State.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.857; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I belong to a group of five butch­ers, Garba, Hassan, Mohammadu, Isawa and myself making a total of five butchers that operated at Balmo Forest. Out of the five, my duty is to slaughter while the remaining four had to tie the victims with rope and make them ready for me to kill. I have slaughtered only five people and it takes only two minutes to slaughter a human being,” he said.</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.857; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Parading the suspect at one of its detention facilities before newsmen in Abuja yesterday, the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba (an As­sistant Commissioner), said the police decided to parade the suspect, who was arrested at Balmo Forest  before newsmen to debunk the rumour that he (Mohamadu) had escaped from police custody.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Chief Butcher of Boko Haram Sect Speaks

Confession of Boko Haram chief butcher                                  •Suspect: ‘It takes me just 2 minutes to slaughter human being’...

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