Mutiny: Four military officers quizzed

Strong denotements emerged on Wednesday that the military high command had commenced taking decisive steps against security personnel involved in acts inimical to the military tradition.

It was amassed on Wednesday that four army officers were apprehended for allegedly inspiriting some soldiers, who disobeyed a directive on posting to Bama, one of the areas where Nigerian troops are fighting   Boko Haram insurgents.

Mutiny is defined as a situation, in which a group of people such as sailors or soldiers reluct to comply with orders and endeavor to take control away from their superiors.

The posting was verbalized to have affected mainly the 21 Armoured Brigade Garrison, Maiduguri in Borno State whose men were verbally expressed to be on standby for redeployment to Bama.

It was learnt on Wednesday that the posting did not go down well with the men of the unit, who were of the view that the garrison should have been a rear party (support unit) rather than being posted to the area of operation.

Investigations further revealed that the soldiers felt that they were being moved out for the men of the division to surmount Maiduguri metropolis.

The soldiers in the units were additionally verbally expressed to have repined that they were involved in three operations such as the multinational Joint Task Force, the Joint Task Force in Damaturu, Yobe State and the task force in Mubi, Adamawa State. They believed that they should have been addressed collectively afore any such deployment.

A source, who confided in one of our correspondents, verbally expressed the military ascendant entities became alarmed when some of the soldiers decided not to accolade the posting. This made the   military high command to   order the apprehend of four of the officers of the formation.

It was learnt the commanders of the 21 Armoured Brigade Garrison in Maiduguri, comprising a Lieutenant Colonel , a Captain and two lieutenants, were apprehended a fortnight ago .

However, after an exhaustive process of investigation, the military ascendant entities relinquished the four officers after finding them not guilty of the suspicion that they   had a hand in the reluctance of the troops to leave Maiduguri   for Bama.

It was accumulated that the Lieutenant Colonel had been posted   to another unit while the other three officers had been deployed to Bama.

Investigations further revealed that the military leadership had apprehended several soldiers, who dropped their guns to desert from the Army.

Although, the source did not give a figure, the soldiers were verbalized to have been peregrinate to Abuja to face interrogation.

The source verbalized the apprehended soldiers emanated from different battalions.

It was, however, amassed that the military ascendant entities were withal investigating some soldiers of 195 Batalion, Agenebode, Edo State over the assailment on Danboa

The Agenebode battalion which is in charge of Danboa is verbalized to be affected by the issue of desertion in the Army.

A security source verbalized that the military ascendant entities were earnest about taking decisive steps against misdemeanours in the perpetual efforts to avert the troops from being dismayed by deserters.

The source verbally expressed that the military leadership was resolute to ascertain that disobedience and pusillanimity were not condoned because of their grave implicative insinuations on the prosperity of the counter-terrorist operation.

One of our correspondents made reiterated efforts to verbalize with the Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen Chris Olukolade, without prosperity.

As of 8.37pm on Wednesday, he had not responded to an SMS sent to him.

Cameroonian troops kill 27 B’Haram insurgents

Cameroonian soldiers have   killed 27 members of the Islamist group, Boko Haram, near a border town with Nigeria.

Reuters quoted Cameroon’s state radio on Wednesday, verbally expressing the insurgents   crossed the border into Cameroon earlier this week, after assailing a military base and police station in Gamboru Ngala in Borno State.

“Cameroon soldiers have killed 27 Boko Haram elements during an assailment in a locality near Fotokol in the far-north,” the state radio, CRTV verbally expressed,.

It integrated   that the deaths occurred on Monday and Tuesday. There was no word on any Cameroonian casualties.

A Cameroonian soldier in the region verbalized the militants had been pushed back into Nigeria, with calm returning to the area on Wednesday.

In recent weeks, Boko Haram, which is seeking to carve out a de facto Islamic state in northern Nigeria, has stepped up attacks in Cameroon, leading the central African country to increment deployments along its border with Nigeria..

President Paul Biya dismissed two senior army officers last month following attacks in which at least seven people were killed and the wife of the vice prime minister was abducted

Insurgents endeavor to blow Nigeria-Cameroon bridge

Meanwhile, the insurgents have endeavored blowing up a bridge on the Nigerian border with Cameroon after overrunning a town and sending residents as well as soldiers fleeing.

A Cameroonian police officer stationed in   Fotokol told the Agence France Presse that the militants endeavored on Tuesday to eradicate the bridge, which leads to Gamboru Ngala in Borno State.

Three children were reportedly injured by flying shrapnel when explosives were detonated, possibly by firing from the Cameroonian side of the border on Monday.