Fifty-four of the 59 soldiers standing trial for mutiny and conspiracy to commit mutiny have bagged the death sentence. They are to face the firing squad having been found guilty of the offences.

The General Court Martial, which has been sitting since October, however, discharged and acquitted five of the soldiers.

Delivering the judgment at the Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja Wednesday night, chairman of the GCM, Major General Musa Yusuf, said the soldiers reserved the right to appeal the verdict at a higher authority.

The 59 soldiers were among the troops engaged in counter insurgency operations in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, where the Boko Haram insurgents have taken over a number of Nigerian towns and villages in Northeastern Nigeria.

The soldiers were accused of refusing lawful orders to fight, an offence the military authorities described as conspiracy and mutiny.

The first batch of soldiers that were tried for mutiny also bagged the death sentence for shooting at their commanding officer. The verdict is being appealed by their lawyers.

All the 59 soldiers had pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against them by the General Court Martial during the trial.


http://thenationonlineng.net/new/mutiny-54-soldiers-face-firing-squad-five-freed/

Oh not again

We should be thinking of how to Increase our number and not reduce cos these terrorist keep outnumbering us. Will those in Aso rock come out and fight

Only for the strong!

God bless our men in arms

TTC

Silly cowards sitting in air conditioned offices and condemning brave hearts to death, non sense!

Pathetic
But instead of wasting dem like dat, why not push dem to war fronts, dey might help kill ateast 20 BH members before they eventually die na...

fresh air indeed
every sector going mad

Too bad.The military profession is not meant for everyone,you either fall in line or you fall out.A very high sense of discipline and obedience is required to be a successful military officer.It is not for the faint hearted.

OMG

ђMM..

Too baaaaddddd

Harsh trial


These innocent soldiers are later going to be busted for their mutiny despite them being the active force for field work


There should still be a review of the death penalty, they should be jailed for life instead firing sqad


Am just pretty much ungrateful about it

oh why now

hypocrisy if that Nigeria n army

This barbarism has to stop!

Wat went wrong again with our gallant men

Mods abeg I want sleep no disturb me wit dis kind thread for fp pls

Oro o!
Ikunle o!
Last Bullet
If only, their sentence has a just reason!

Abeg make dy free this Soldiers joor...

*brings out my riffle* show me those men...!

The soldiers have to pay with their life's





For, the corruption of their ogas
For the lack of fire power to combat the Boko Haram
For refusing to allow their lives to be slaughter like fowls because of out dated guns and fire power.
For standing against the evils of their oga etc


This men have to be the sacrificial lamb

Idiots

Bad news

lecturerdabo:
Silly cowards sitting in air conditioned offices and condemning brave hearts to death, non sense!

Brave hearts that shot at their commanding officers.

yeeba!!!

The officers are not happy that the ratings are exposing them. They do nothing but sit and eat money mercilessly at the detriment of civilians. They siphone money meant to purchase arms and use it to build houses here and there. Courtesy of the letter written to jonathan by a commanding officer. I believe the military can fight out this insurgents terrorizing my homestate but they believe the money will stop flowing when the hostiles die.

Military laws are different from civilian laws. This is what they signed up for... But 54? Death sentence? In 2014?

My God! That's quite a huge number.
We are talking about human lives here!
If I kill 54 chickens this Xmas,my conscience will bug me, talkless of killing 54 humans.

Sentencing 54 people to death will definitely destroy the already dead morale of the soldiers at the battlefield.
The Court Martilal should have borne this in mind before delivering this ridiculous judgement.

Its not like we're even in the military era for Crissakes!

Anyways, they have a right to appeal. I'm very sure the Court of Appeal will reverse this stupendous judgement.

Extremely pissed right now

Hey! 54 soldiers to be wasted jux lyk dat? pity them na....... I beg I don dey cry sef.but soldiers too na wa oh.

Too bad.

To go on AWOL would have been better.

Military House of Commotion.