Merriam-webster dictionary, defined mutiny as: a situation in which a
group of people (such as sailors or soldiers) refuse to obey orders and try to
take control away from the person who commands them. That was exactly what happened between
the solders of 7 Division,
Nigerian Army, and their General Officer
Commanding (GOC), Major General
Ahmadu Mohammed, yesterday n Maiduguri.
In my earlier blog’ NIGERIA ARMY NOT YET
PEOPLES’ ARMY, i made an
observation about our army that ‘‘it was formed in 1863 to attack Nigerian people as an instrument of
colonial power''.....hence, this is an organisation conceived and born to
oppress and brutalize the people of Nigeria’. And that ‘‘Nigerian Army'' is a Gestapo
that meant to humiliate, oppress, cage, suppress and brutalize the ''Bloody Civilians’
‘and make them a 'Yes sir ‘people.’’
Hence, they are
not trained to deal with internal insurgence like Boko Haram that is well equipped
with modern weapon. As one soldier put it, “We the soldiers don’t have the kind of arms and
ammunition that [Boko Haram] fighters have. So every day, they kill our men
anyhow, but it is never published in the media"
The commanding officers “are too busy ‘eating’ money.
Based
on the above, it is crystal clear that our soldiers mutinied because they are
ill-equipped, poorly motivated, and not adequately informed about the course
they are fighting for. How does one expect soldiers to fight gallantly under
such terrible condition?
According to the
source: “The troops arrived with the corpses of the slain soldiers to Maimalari
barracks while the GOC was addressing some troops on the ongoing operation
against the insurgency. But when the soldiers sighted the corpses of their
deceased colleagues, and learnt about how they died, they condemned the way their superior officers allegedly treated
them in the course of the operation, and therefore started shooting
sporadically, while others opened fire on the GOC’s vehicle as he narrowly
escaped from the scene”.
According to the
source, “what angered the soldiers most, was the unnecessary deduction of their
allowances and subjecting them to harsh working conditions without proper
equipment to carry out their duties and as a result, many of them were being
killed like rats by the insurgents”.
What really bothered me was the response of Major
General Chris Olukolade the Defence spokesman, who described the mutiny as ‘’
an internal affair which has since been resolved”.
However, in a statement
issued and signed by Major General Chris
Olukolade later yesterday said: “The 7
Division of the Nigerian Army is to institute a military board of inquiry into
the circumstances surrounding the conduct of soldiers who fired some shots
today (yesterday) while the General Officer Commanding was addressing troops in Maimalari Cantonment,
Maiduguri’’
One a last note, ‘certainly, mutiny is the last we expect at this trying moment
of putting the insurgency in check and rescuing the abducted schoolgirls’ God blesses Nigeria.
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