"I will tell soldiers to use koboko" - General Minimah Warns Soldiers Wives
Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah, on Tuesday threatened to evict the wives of Nigerian Soldiers who protested against the posting of their husbands to the north eastern part of the country.
Minimah who said the military authorities will not hesitate to throw them out of the barracks, issued the threat while addressing soldiers of the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu during his familiarisation tour of the Division.
He said, "If they repeat it, all those wives will leave the barracks. This is not a civil service organisation. This is not a Boys Scout organisation. Any repeat of such act, I will tell soldiers to use koboko on the wives and bundle them out of the barracks".
"Your wives cannot dictate how you should be employed. Bring your wives up in the normal regimental ways of the army. Protests by soldiers’ wives is absolutely wrong. Soldiers wives have no role in the Nigerian army".
"If you are tired of the army, you quietly pack your things and go away; don’t come to ridicule the army", he warned the soldiers.
According to Daily Trust, Lt. Gen. Minimah also spoke strongly on the recent mutiny by soldiers in Maiduguri and the issue of saboteurs, who he said, have found it necessary to connive with insurgents in order to rubbish the efforts of the Nigerian army and the federal government to defeat the insurgents.
Minimah, emphasised that, in line with the military law, mutiny is punishable by death sentence where the offender is found guilty. "Mutiny is death sentence if you are found guilty; you face firing squad," he restated. He advised soldiers and those who might want to mislead them into committing mutiny to always study the military law so that they would appreciate the enormity and implications of their actions.
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| Gen. Kenneth Minimah presenting a certificate |
He said, "If they repeat it, all those wives will leave the barracks. This is not a civil service organisation. This is not a Boys Scout organisation. Any repeat of such act, I will tell soldiers to use koboko on the wives and bundle them out of the barracks".
"Your wives cannot dictate how you should be employed. Bring your wives up in the normal regimental ways of the army. Protests by soldiers’ wives is absolutely wrong. Soldiers wives have no role in the Nigerian army".
"If you are tired of the army, you quietly pack your things and go away; don’t come to ridicule the army", he warned the soldiers.
According to Daily Trust, Lt. Gen. Minimah also spoke strongly on the recent mutiny by soldiers in Maiduguri and the issue of saboteurs, who he said, have found it necessary to connive with insurgents in order to rubbish the efforts of the Nigerian army and the federal government to defeat the insurgents.
Minimah, emphasised that, in line with the military law, mutiny is punishable by death sentence where the offender is found guilty. "Mutiny is death sentence if you are found guilty; you face firing squad," he restated. He advised soldiers and those who might want to mislead them into committing mutiny to always study the military law so that they would appreciate the enormity and implications of their actions.
"I will tell soldiers to use koboko" - General Minimah Warns Soldiers Wives
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