Nigerian Senate Supports Death Sentence On 12 Soldiers




No, we are not under pressure because the Armed Forces is established by an Act of the National Assembly. The Act spelt out categorically the conduct of soldiers and the way they are to behave wherever they are. If you join the military that Act is to guide you and your conduct. 

If you go contrary to any of the prescribed sections of the Act, the punishment prescribed for the Act you violated will come on you.

So the military did not just wake up one day and say that they are going to kill Mr A or Mr B. They (military) went through the necessary processes and they found them guilty.

Recall that 12 Nigerian soldiers, now famously called Maiduguri 12, were sentenced to death by a military court martial on September 16, 2014, for an offence of mutiny after firing shots at their commanding officer, Maj. Gen. Abubakar Mohammed, in Maiduguri on May 14.

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