Nigerian Army has reacted to the petition written by some soldiers fighting the insurgency to President Muhammadu Buhari where they threatened to abandoned their duty post, claiming that Nigerian army has forget them.
According to exclusive report by SaharaReporters on Tuesday said “that soldiers attached to the 159 Battalion, Geidam (Sector 2), Yobe State, had written a letter, addressed to President Muhammad Buhari, Nigerian National Assembly, United Nations, African Union and several other organisations, expressed sadness over their long stay in the volatile North-East region, revealing that many of them had been pushed into a state of depression as a result of the situation.”
The report stated that most of the soldiers, had participated in operations in Liberia in the past, disclosed that they are being exploited by insensitive superiors officers for personal and material gains, according to the report.
Reacting to the report on Friday, Operations Media Coordinator of the Nigerian Army, Colonel Aminu Iliyasu, claimed that the petition was written and sent by Boko Haram terrorists, and not soldiers serving in the North-East.
He said, “It has however, been revealed through reliable intelligence sources that some Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province collaborators and sympathisers who continue to lose out in their unholy activities due to the massive onslaught by troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE were indeed behind the unscrupulous publications.
“Nevertheless, more than ever before, Nigerian Army troops and indeed all the entire components of Operation LAFIYA DOLE are committed to wiping out all remnants of the insurgents from Nigerian territory and apprehending their collaborators and sympathizers.”
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