SOLDIER SENTENCE TO DEATH OVER MUTINY SPEAK UP

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A heartbreaking development of the story about the soldiers’ mutiny, which was followed by the severe court punishment.

It would be recalled that the military court, on December 17, sentenced 54 soldiers to death over mutiny.

The convicts attached to the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri, disobeyed orders to join operations against Boko Haram on August 4.

They were accused of conspiring to commit mutiny against the Division authorities.

Lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), expressed shock over the court verdict saying:

“Instead of bringing such unpatriotic officers to book, the military authorities have engaged in the diversionary tactics of wasting the lives of innocent soldiers by sentencing them to death without any legal justification.”

READ ALSO: Trial Of 59 Soldiers Who Refused To Fight Boko Haram Begins

One of the convicted soldiers used his Facebook account after the sentence announcement to post this heartbreaking message.


Fahat Fahat, soldier sentenced to death over mutiny
“Hello ladies and gentlemen. I am soldier and I am sentenced to death by the Nigerian Army. (be)Cause we did not go to fight Boko Haram without equipment. We ask for weapon instead (they) gave (us) death sentence.”

In his earlier Facebook post dating back to May 25 Fahat stated, all with capital letters: “AM PROUD TO BE A SOLDIER”…


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