{"id":2794,"date":"2014-11-03T07:49:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T07:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2014-11-03T07:49:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T07:49:30","slug":"mubi-battle-army-arrests-six-senior-officers-for-fleeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2794","title":{"rendered":"Mubi battle: Army arrests six senior officers for fleeing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Nigeria<\/a>
Nigeria Defence spokesman, Major General Chris Olukolade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Six military commanders, including an injured Lieutenant Colonel, have been arrested by the military for withdrawing from Mararaba, Michika, Madagali, Mubi and later Vimtim when Boko Haram insurgents attacked the communities last week.<\/p>\n

It was learnt that\u00a0\u00a0 an unspecified number of soldiers were also in detention for allegedly abandoning the communities, thereby making easy for the insurgents to have an upper hand.<\/p>\n

A reliable military source, who made this known in Abuja on Sunday said\u00a0\u00a0 the movement of five of the commanders had been restricted to the officers mess in a military formation.<\/p>\n

The source, who did not name the military formation, because of security reason, added that \u201cone of them, a Leutenant Colonel\u00a0\u00a0 is receiving treatment at the MRS in Yola for\u00a0\u00a0 serious injuries he sustained when the car in which he was escaping with somersaulted several times.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the injured officer\u00a0\u00a0 would join his colleagues in the officers mess on recovery.<\/p>\n

Our source said, \u201cToday (Sunday), the military authorities arrested five\u00a0\u00a0 commanders around the Mubi axis of Adamawa State. The sixth is a Lt. Col.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of those arrested were at Mararaba, Madagali, Michika and other locations. I think the military leaders are saying that the soldiers did not resist the Boko Haram when they invaded the place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our source explained that the Defence authorities had already commenced investigations into the activities of all its personnel in relation with the capture of Mubi, the second largest town in Adamawa State and other supposedly \u201cfortified locations,\u201d including Vimtim, the home town of the Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh.<\/p>\n

The insurgents had reportedly burnt Badeh\u2019s residence, a clinic and a civic centre in the community on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The source explained that the military authorities were determined to find out why the Boko Haram\u2019s advance in the state was not resisted by the troops.<\/p>\n

He said the military\u00a0\u00a0 chiefs\u00a0\u00a0 were of the opinion that the \u201ctactical withdrawal\u201d of the soldiers from their\u00a0\u00a0 positions was nothing but a \u201cdisplay of indiscipline and cowardice which\u00a0\u00a0 would not be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our correspondents gathered that it was the military authority\u2019s conviction that enough weapons and men were deployed in Mubi and other locations to frustrate the any attack by the insurgents.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the Minister of Defence, Lt.Gen. Aliyu Gusau; the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Kenneth Minimah, declined to speak with journalists on issues relating to the capture of Mubi and the other communities by the insurgents.<\/p>\n

When\u00a0\u00a0 contacted on the issue, the Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen Chris Olukolade, said, \u201cAnyone found to have undermined the ongoing operation will face appropriate sanctions and this is well known to all military personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another source, who confided in one of our correspondents, said soldiers had a grueling encounter on Sunday with insurgents at Bladeba about one and half kilometers from Mubi.<\/p>\n

He said\u00a0\u00a0 the soldiers were able to take over some of the checkpoints captured by the insurgents.<\/p>\n

It was\u00a0\u00a0 also learnt that some of the insurgents\u00a0\u00a0 in control of Mubi were moving towards Hildi\u00a0\u00a0 to avoid aerial bombardments.<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.punchng.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six military commanders, including an injured Lieutenant Colonel, have been arrested by the military for withdrawing from Mararaba, Michika, Madagali, Mubi and later Vimtim when Boko Haram insurgents attacked the communities last week. It was learnt that\u00a0\u00a0 an unspecified number of soldiers were also in detention for allegedly abandoning the communities, thereby making easy for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Olukolade-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-J4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions\/2796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}