Lagos lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has asked the Federal Government to stop the killing of 54 soldiers sentenced to death on Wednesday for mutiny by the general court martial sitting in Abuja.

Falana promised to appeal against the decision of the court-martial, which convicted the soldiers.

“We shall take all necessary legal measures to prevent the army authorities from giving effect to the genocidal verdict of the court-martial,” he stated in a statement issued in Lagos.

The general court-martial tried another batch of 59 soldiers for conspiracy to mutiny and convicted and sentenced them to death.

Five were discharged and acquitted. The acquittal was designed to give the false impression that the dubious verdict was fair and just.

Falana said he took the decision because he was convinced that “soldiers who made a legitimate demand for equipment to fight the insurgents cannot, by any stretch of imagination, be properly convicted for mutiny”, adding that the acquittal of five of the 59 soldiers court-martialed, whose ages range between 21 and 25 and most of who joined the army in 2012, was designed to give the false impression that the verdict was fair and just. He noted that in its judgment, the court-martial “refused to consider the evidence led in court and convicted 54 of the soldiers for having the temerity to ask for weapons to carry out the task of defending the territorial integrity of the nation”.

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Good one Falana, i hope the Presidency intervenes in this matter and stop the senseless execution.......they could be dismissed or even disciplined.