While the
rest of Nigerians are begging for leniency over the 12 soldiers, some retired
senior military officers say the 12 soldiers sentenced to death last week for
attacking their GOC at their barracks in Maiduguri, deserve to die.
Speaking
with Sunday Punch, the ex-generals said it's necessary for the military to
maintain its age-long rules on discipline, hailed the judgement and said it
must be carried out. A former Commandant of the Nigerian Army School of
Infantry, Brig.-Gen. Williams Obene (retd.), said,
“I commend the boldness of the Army
authorities to follow the terms and conditions of service – the extant laws
that established the armed forces, particularly the Army– and for trying to
uphold discipline at the highest level. When politicians and highly influential
Nigerians interfere in the daily administration of the military, things become
difficult. That situation is very prevalent under democracy.”
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