- But the Nigerian military aka “defenders of democracy” could be police, judge, jury, executioner, demolisher and exhumer for civilians in Zaria who were never in the army
By Kingsley Omonobi, Emman Ovuakporie & Johnbosco Agbakwuru
The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, said yesterday that the Army cannot probe ex-service chiefs involved in procurement of weapons for the fight against Boko Haram because they had retired.
- But the Nigerian military aka “defenders of democracy” could be police, judge, jury, executioner, demolisher and exhumer for civilians in Zaria who were never in the army
Buratai, who disclosed this while defending Army’s budget proposal before the House of Representatives Committee on Army, also lamented that the N160 billion budget approved for the Army by the Ministry of Budget and Planning was grossly inadequate to prosecute the war against insurgency in the North East.
His declaration came as the Army yesterday said it would not reabsorb the 250 soldiers dismissed last week for failing to join their colleagues posted to the North East, gross acts of indiscipline, cowardice and absence without leave.
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