40 soldiers vow not to fight Boko Haram –Report

At least, 40 soldiers in North-Eastern are relucting to fight Islamist Boko Haram militants until they receive more preponderant equipment.

The BBC reported on Tuesday that one of the mutineers verbalized that he and 39 others would reluct orders to deploy.

The alleged soldier verbalized with the BBC just as the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah, admonished officers and men of the Nigerian Army to desist from any form of mutiny in the face of the perpetual campaign against the Boko Haram sect.

The BBC verbally expressed that a defence ministry spokesman verbally expressed the incident was being investigated.

The Federal Government had declared state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states because of the assailments by the Boko Haram sect.

“Soldiers are dying like fowl,” the soldier, who verbalized he and his colleagues were just outside Maiduguri, told the BBC.

“The Nigerian army is not yare to fight Boko Haram,” he verbally expressed, explicating that soldiers were not being given enough weapons and ammunition to take them on.

“Boko Haram are inside the bush, everywhere,” he verbally expressed “They [senior commanders] are sacrificing soldiers,” he verbalized.

The Defence headquarters spokesman, Gen Chris Olukolade, told the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme that he could not substantiate the reports of a mutiny but would investigate.

He gainsaid that soldiers were being “sent to die”.

“We may not have all it takes but we are ameliorating on it [equipment] conventionally,” he verbally expressed.

But the Defence Headquarters, in a verbal expression on Tuesday gainsaid the report that troops in the North -East had taken a decision to reluct to comply with directives from superior officers.

Olukolade, verbalized in an electronic mail on Tuesday , verbally expressed the caliber of pusillanimity described in the report was not in the character of the Nigerian soldier.

He described the interview granted the BBC as lies by an incognito soldier.

Olukolade verbally expressed it was a component of the the antics of mischief-makers to promote the course of the Boko Haram sect.

He stressed that the military had not sent any soldier to the frontline without providing the compulsory equipment.

Olukolade admonished that mutiny remained a grave offence magnetizing rigorous penalization.