Vunderkind
Social Member
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has decried the current path the FG is taking on the mutinous soldiers who fired at their GOC.
The Trade Union has said that, instead killing one of our own, we should focus on the current problem at hand: tackling the insurgency problem by rooting out Boko Haram apologists.
This was contained in a statement where the union said there were more sides to this issue of mutiny that the FG was willing to share:
“To us, the issues are clearly more and the congress makes bold to say that the approach adopted on the issue that is already at the public domain is very incorrect.
“We reiterate that we abhor the temperamental response of the tried soldiers to the needless loss of lives of their colleagues due to needless orders from above, and do urge the military to put its house in order and fish out all the Boko Haram apologists within its ranks.
“It will be recalled that His Excellency the Pesident, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan had earlier said that there are Boko Haram members in his cabinet.
“Also, we recall that the Bornu State government had cried out that the sect had more sophisticated weapons than our military.
“If that is the case, it therefore means that members of the sect are everywhere, including the military.
“We would not want to mention names but the dailies have it that there were senior military officers who before the Boko Haram crisis were poor but have now suddenly become billionaires overnight while the innocent rank and file of the military is killed by the sect due to their superior weapons.
“The death sentence is not only a special gift to the Boko Haram terrorist, but the surest means of demobilising the rank and file of the Nigerian soldiers.
“Our position is that the Federal Government and the military leadership should look into the grievances of soldiers, especially now. “We say no to death sentence because we cannot afford to lose more soldiers.”
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Source: #DailyPost
The Trade Union has said that, instead killing one of our own, we should focus on the current problem at hand: tackling the insurgency problem by rooting out Boko Haram apologists.
This was contained in a statement where the union said there were more sides to this issue of mutiny that the FG was willing to share:
“To us, the issues are clearly more and the congress makes bold to say that the approach adopted on the issue that is already at the public domain is very incorrect.
“We reiterate that we abhor the temperamental response of the tried soldiers to the needless loss of lives of their colleagues due to needless orders from above, and do urge the military to put its house in order and fish out all the Boko Haram apologists within its ranks.
“It will be recalled that His Excellency the Pesident, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan had earlier said that there are Boko Haram members in his cabinet.
“Also, we recall that the Bornu State government had cried out that the sect had more sophisticated weapons than our military.
“If that is the case, it therefore means that members of the sect are everywhere, including the military.
“We would not want to mention names but the dailies have it that there were senior military officers who before the Boko Haram crisis were poor but have now suddenly become billionaires overnight while the innocent rank and file of the military is killed by the sect due to their superior weapons.
“The death sentence is not only a special gift to the Boko Haram terrorist, but the surest means of demobilising the rank and file of the Nigerian soldiers.
“Our position is that the Federal Government and the military leadership should look into the grievances of soldiers, especially now. “We say no to death sentence because we cannot afford to lose more soldiers.”
Click here to read more
Source: #DailyPost
