No fewer than fifteen soldiers who refused orders to report at the war front in Adamawa State have faced a court-martial and have been sentenced to four year jail terms.

The sentencing of the officers, who had been in detention for over three weeks, was done on Wednesday, 18 September, at the 23rd Armoured Brigade, in Yola by the military command.

The men were found guilty of insubordination and refusal to face the Boko Haram insurgents in the northern parts of the state.

A military source disclosed that the affected soldiers were those who ran away when Boko Haram attacked their duty posts and fled back to the cantonment.

The source said: “The soldiers had allegedly refused the orders of their superiors to draft back to the theatre of war. In the military tradition, a soldier is expected to obey the last order but the 15 soldiers convicted by the military command were adjudged to have committed acts of insubordination by their refusal to draft to the warfront.”

“The military has been grappling with soldiers deserting from their tour of duty only to re-surface with all manner of tales, and the development is gradually beginning to impugn on the integrity of the military establishment,” he added.

The court-martial and subsequent sentencing of the soldiers comes two days after 12 soldiers were sentenced to death by firing squad after they staged a mutiny and attacked the GOC, 3 Division in Maiduguri, Borno State.

Pls which is better Jail sentence or Death?

Is nat easy every body dey fear o.death no easy abeg

why the oga where give the order did not led them there. yeye oga and yeye order, OK because the junior rank get double life while oga get one Abi. fifteen soldiers to confront BH nonsense

After the jail sentence they will be discharged from the military. Too bad, na enjoyment una sabi.






Front page abeg

We need this soldiers this period oh

Insurgents operate as if there is no government.

juman: Insurgents operate as if there is no government.

All they do is loot our money abroad.

God go help them. Na wetin them sign for sha

Why did they enlist in the army if not for war? Gone are the days of career coup plotting.

No Comment yet til i am done peeing

BLACKSNIP: After the jail sentence they will be discharged from the military. Too bad, na enjoyment una sabi.






Front page abeg

Front page ke...[Slap him]

The army is slowly removing the salary collectors from the service.

BLACKSNIP: All they do is loot our money abroad.

A country of 54 years but has non-functioning system.

Did anyone notice the date Wednesday 18 September as the date they were court martialed? Today is Thursday 18 and no source sef.

na wah 4 NA

Yeske2: Did anyone notice the date Wednesday 18 September as the date they were court martialed? Today is Thursday 18 and no source sef.

Source sir: http://ynaija.com/15-soldiers-get-4-years-jail-sentence-refusing-fight-boko-haram/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Its not their fault.

When they would 15 bullets and still ask them not to finish the bullets

4 years? Suspicious to me.

Refusal to deploy to the war front is a capital punishment which carries the ultimate penalty.
So, where is 4 years light sentencing coming from?

Any credible link?

atlwireles: The army is slowly removing the salary collectors from the service.

that right

Good. They only know how to beat civilians! Let them go to the front and fight!

@least this ll serve as a deterrent to others. Besides, this was made known to them @d point of joining d army.

A welcome development...i have waited for quite a long time to hear such news from Nigeria tank God 4 today....a coward is not fit to be in de army

Obasanjo's son that ran away in the heat of battle and got a bullet stuck up his azz should be decomminsioned and given ten strokes of koboko and then given a dishonorable discharge

This is why i will never join Nigeria Army,i rather join Congo Army force where my life will be some how secured and will not be sentence like this guys up there.

COWARDICE is even a crime?

Ok Nah, who is to blame?
The court abi the niggas who refused to commit sucide

RevDesmondJuju: Obasanjo's son that ran away in the heat of battle and got a bullet stuck up his azz should be decomminsioned and given ten strokes of koboko and then given a dishonorable discharge

obj son has no case guy, he has gotten his own judicial punishment by the bullet that struck his boom boom

@ OP where ARE the pictureS of the 15 soldiers that were sentenced

Dis fvcked up country ain't worth dying for jawe

Na by force!