Minimah Warns Soldiers Against Mutiny

Officers and men of the Ni
gerian Army have been warned against getting involved in mutiny and any form of sabotage in the ongoing fight against insurgents in the North Eastern part of the country.
Handing down the warning while addressing officers and men of the 82 Division, Enugu, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt General Kenneth Minimah, threatened that the authorities of the Nigerian Army would not hesitate to slam death sentence on soldiers and officers convicted of any act of mutiny, reminding them that punishment for mutiny remained death sentence.
He further warned that soldiers caught sabotaging the ongoing war against insurgents in the North East would be seriously sanctioned, adding that it was an offence for any soldier to sabotage the nation’s ongoing campaign to rid Nigeria of insurgency and terrorist elements.
“Very soon we will identify them and they will go through a field court marshal and be punished accordingly”.
He also used the opportunity to warn wives of soldiers in all the military formations in the country to desist from any form of protest against posting of their husbands in any part of the country to fight insurgents.
According  to him, soldiers wives have no right to carry out protest on behalf of their husbands because they are not enlisted into the army.
He stated that authorities of the Nigerian Army would not hesitate to kick out of the barracks wives of soldiers that would embark on any form of protest.
The COAS also disclosed that the federal government had concluded plans to buy more arms and ammunition for the Nigerian Army to end insurgence in the North East, assuring that as soon as the weapons  arrived the country insurgence would be a thing of the past.