About 500 soldiers may be quizzed by the Board of Inquiry probing last Wednesday’s mutiny in Maimalari Cantonment in Maiduguri. The Defence Headquarters has sent military police to conduct independent investigation into the incident.
Frustrated troops shot sporadically into the air and attacked the former GOC of the Division, Major General Ahmed Mohammmed. The attack left some military escorts of the ex-GOC injured. Some arrests were made. Sources said that an internal Board of Inquiry has been set up to look into the alleged mutiny.
A military source, who spoke in confidence, said: “So far, the inquiry is an internal matter of the unit where the soldiers misbehaved. “The military hierarchy has mandated the Board of Inquiry to look at the remote and immediate causes of the misconduct of the soldiers, some of who are already in detention. “The Board will interrogate all the soldiers in the battalion in order to be able to fish-out those behind it.
“We are talking of about 500 to 700 facing the Board of Inquiry. The probe is not limited to the few who fired shots at the car of the former GOC.” “In the military, we do not take things for granted. We have to sort out all the soldiers in the battalion to get to the root of this professional indiscipline.” A www.thenationonlineng.net report
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