Boko Haram: Senior Officers Arrested for Fleeing Mubi

An injured Lieutenant Colonel, and six military commanders, have been arrested by the military for withdrawing from Mararaba, Michika, Madagali, Mubi and later Vimtim when Boko Haram insurgents launched attacks on those communities last week.

According to a source who spoke to Punch, “one of them, a Leutenant Colonel is receiving treatment at the MRS in Yola for serious injuries he sustained when the car in which he was escaping with somersaulted several times.”

“Some of those arrested were at Mararaba, Madagali, Michika and other locations. I think the military leaders are saying that the soldiers did not resist the Boko Haram when they invaded the place.”

It was gathered that, the military authority is of the conviction that enough weapons and men were deployed in Mubi and other locations to frustrate the any attack by the insurgents, but the “tactical withdrawal” of the soldiers from their positions was nothing but a “display of indiscipline and cowardice which would not be tolerated.” – And when the Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen Chris Olukolade, was contacted, he said;

“Anyone found to have undermined the ongoing operation will face appropriate sanctions and this is well known to all military personnel.”

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