The Nigerian Army has deployed 3,032 pardoned soldiers in the North-East to fight Boko Haram insurgents.

The affected soldiers had been summarily dismissed from the military in 2014 over offences allegedly committed as part of the troops involved in counter insurgency operations in the North-East.

The soldiers were dismissed by their unit commanders at the peak of the Boko Haram attacks in the North-East in 2014.

Many soldiers had at the peak of the battle against Boko Haram last year allegedly disobeyed their commanders and reportedly declined confronting the insurgents with inadequate weapons.

The 3,032 soldiers were among 5,000 dismissed soldiers whose cases were reviewed by a military panel led by the General Officer Commanding, 1 Division, Maj. Gen. Adeniyi Oyebade.

The panel had been set up by the army authorities to revisit the cases of the soldiers in August 2015.

The PUNCH learnt on Thursday that the soldiers had been sent to the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, following the completion of a two-week reorientation training programme organised for them at the Nigerian Army Training Centre, Kontagora, Niger State.

It was learnt that the soldiers were deployed last week to strengthen the ongoing fight against the Boko Haram insurgents.

A military source said that the soldiers were moved to the headquarters of the 7 Division, Maiduguri, for deployment in the North East.

The source said, “The Army authorities have re-launched the 3032 soldiers who were granted pardon by the review panel into the mission area.

“The soldiers were moved to the 7 Division Headquarters where they are expected to be deployed in various locations in the conflict area.

“You know that they were moved to the Nigerian Army Training Centre, Kontagora, for a two week training programme for their readmission into the service.

“They completed the course and have been deployed in the North-East sometime last week to add more value to the operation.”

The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, had said during a briefing on September 3, 2015 that the recalled soldiers had indicated their readiness to return to the operational area.

He said that the training programme was designed to reorient them and prepare them for the last phase of the ongoing campaign against the insurgents in the North East.

Usman had said, “The committee has concluded its sitting last week and has made certain recommendations that led to the reinstatement of 3,032 soldiers into the Nigerian Army out of the 5,000 cases that were reviewed.

“The reinstated soldiers have shown total readiness to be re-launched into the theatre to combat insurgency and have now commenced a retraining exercise at the Nigerian Army Training Centre, Kontagora, Niger State.

“This training is to reorient the affected soldiers and prepare them for this closing stage of the operational aspect of the counter insurgency operations with more weapons and new leadership.”

Meanwhile, the Director of Social Communication, Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Msgr. Gabriel Osu, has applauded the decision of the Nigerian military to recall the 3,032 soldiers dismissed by the previous military authorities.

Osu said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos.

He described the decision by the military to recall the dismissed soldiers as a morale booster that would encourage troops fighting the insurgents in the northeastern part of the country to do their best.

The cleric said, “We thank God. At least, they have allowed reason to go beyond military style because these guys would have just faced firing squad for nothing.

“If you don’t equip your soldiers, you don’t train them well, you don’t pay them well, don’t expect anything different from whatever has happened.

“This is a very big morale booster; the morale booster is there for them to carry out the presidential task.

“You will see that with backing and with the arms, the soldiers will fight well.


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Good development

great news just hope they wont run away from battle putting others live at risk

How is this news?Nigerian media be doing the most aswear, are soldiers commissioned to wear camo & do road block duties on highways?

They were let go by enemies of Nigeria's stability for sinister & unjustifiable reasons, reinstated by a lover of Nigeria, case closed.

Or maybe this kind of nonsense has made people forget their primary function, it is an aberration to see soldiers in the city.

which pidgin proverb best fits this scenario...


1. Na for old age ashawo dey know the use of
pikin.

2. Woman wey never see problem... Na im dey still
hold breast run.

3. Woman wey dey find pikin no dey wear pant
sleep.

4. Rat wey follow lizard enter rain, Na later é go
hear am.

5. Na for afternoon dem dey find black goat.

6. Weather hot!! É No mean say fowl go lay boiled
egg.

7. EYE WEY DEY CRY DEY SEE ROAD.

8. Pikin wey him mama back cross water, wey say
him march fish, wetin him mama go march?

9. Small pikin wey dem carry for back no know say
the journey far.

10. Person wey don faint before no be stranger to
death.
11. Person wey chop belle full, no know wetin
hungry man dey see.

12. No be as woman dey close eye enjoy sex she
dey enjoy labour pains.

13. Yansh no get teeth but e dey cut shit.

14. Lizard wey fall from tall iroko tree, if nobody hail
am!! é go hail himself.

15. Toto water small, but é reach prick take baff.

16. IF GIRL TAKE HUSBAND DO BOYFRIEND, SHE
GO TAKE BOYFRIEND DO HUSBAND.

17. Cockroach wey jam fowl, jam bad luck.

18. Na cricket tell him children say, No matter
how ground strong, Them no go sleep outside.

19. Pikin wey say him mama no fine they use style
call him papa blind man.

20. No be eye wey dem take chop eba dem take
dey share meat.

21. Person wey use Elephant set trap, na him know
wetin he wan Catch.

22. When Breeze Blow Fowl Yash Go Open.

23. STUDENT WEY READ NA HIM SERIOUS, BUT
STUDENT WEY PASS NA HIM KNOW BOOK.

24. Dem no dey tell tortoise say race don start.

25. Dem no dey tell blind man say salt no dey for
food.

26. Before you see monkey, monkey don see you.

27. Thief wey jump fence enter house where owner
dey wait for am, no go jump again.

28. If pikin say he sabi die, him papa sef go tell am
say him sabi bury.

29. Na wetin dey sweet for goat mouth, Na im dey
kill am.

30. If e be like say everybody dey craze" na you
dey craze.

31. Meat wey you dey forbid, no use your teeth cut
am.

My thing and our thing no be the same oh.

Is said baba not mercyful? A military man is a military not one zoologist who does not understand military operations. PDP wailing wailers oya cry me a river.

This is fine.

Very good.

Time to go and prove the authorities who dismissed them were wrong in doing so.

Good idea, let them go and prove themselves

by all means. See manpower way GEJ deprive Nigeria off





Tnks my Gen. Put them to good use.



Meanwhile if you want to own a phone of your choice and pay on installment, see my signature.

nice one,get back to work great men

Good, they should face their fears.

Only a useless Commander In Chief will watch 5,000 Soldiers dismissed at a time we were desperate to curb insurgence.


Nigeria really bled.

To think some people still think we made the wrong option when we voted shows how amazingly clueless people can be about things around us.

Mr Minimah should be tied to a boulder and drown in a river or better still shot publicly. This ex-'general' almost single handedly ruin the reputation of the Nigerian Army all in the name of asserting discipline. His likes and co-travellers, those I addressed as 'Abuja generals' with fat pot bellies should as a matter of urgency and with immediate alacrity be flushed out before their evil plan is hatched.
God bless general Buratai, God bless 'Baba go-slow and steady' God bless the federal republic of Nigeria. Change!!!

The first time I read 5,000 military officers were dismissed for alleged treasonable offences the first question I asked myself was were the accused soldiers adequately equipped and sufficiently paid My answer came when the alleged N5.5B arms deals ended in private pockets under GEJ administration. ThankGod, for PMB's clemency and deep sense of reasoning, the so called "illiterate president" has now given, 5,000 condemned soldiers the opportunity to live again, this is good news for their respective families at least they can all rejoice over this clemency, goodnews for the renewed fight against Boko boys and a big boost to the nation as a whole. Thank you General Buratai, Thank you the panel of judges in this previously unfortunate case and Thanks to Baba for a decision that gladdens the heart of 170million Nigerians, may your reign and your days be long Insha allah, in Jesus name...Ameeen!!! Amen!!!!

We are getting things right gradually.. Let's see what the wailers have to say to this....Rubbish, as usual

Ok

Boko Haram go hear am.

Good news. God Bless The Nigerian Armed Forces.

Okay o. They should sit up and desist any act of insubordination anymore

Up Baba! Up Nigeria!!....Nigeria is winning and will continue to win. so I pray

I support

More soldiers needed at the battle front.

They signed for this to!

Good for them

.

Na with annoyance them go take kill Boko Haram

We hear

Good for them...good for Nigerians

Which boko haram again?......................the one Buhari is negotiating with or the one you have cleared their camps.........a country with tremendous confusion

They pressed 'pause' and for the game to continue, they were asked to press 'play'.