The Nigerian military has started going after personnel who absconded from the Armed Forces.<\/p>\n
The Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, who described the act as a grave crime, said the Nigerian military would arrest those who had absconded.<\/p>\n
Olukolade stated this while speaking on issues involving the ongoing counter terrorism at Nigeria News Info<\/em> monitored by our correspondent.<\/p>\n He called on members of the public to ensure that deserters were reported to the military authorities for prompt action.<\/p>\n According to him, any soldier found roaming about without being on leave or having an authorised pass would most likely be a deserter and should be reported to the appropriate authorities.<\/p>\n The military spokesman said, \u201cThere are deserters; there are deserters definitely and the deserters are being arrested.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd in any case, deserters are supposed to be reported to security agencies and arrested; it is a crime to be a deserter; if you are a deserter, that is the worst form of military service.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I think it is time the public knew some things that should not be glorified about the soldier; if a soldier is a mutineer, if a soldier is a deserter, when a soldier demonstrates cowardice, such a person is not doing anything glorious. Such a person is a disgrace and is actually operating in the realm of crime; and there is no heroism whatsoever in it.<\/p>\n \u201cNow the way people are presenting this attitude makes it look as if they want to feel heroic; you desert your unit, you go about telling lies of what is happening in the front so that you would look like a gallant. Such a person should be reported and if possible arrested and presented to the authorities. If it takes 20 years, a deserter is a deserter, we will get him.\u201d<\/p>\n Olukolade, who spoke on the alleged attack on the former General Officer Commanding the 7th Division of the Nigeria Army, Maiduguri, Maj.-Gen. Ahmed Mohammed, said the soldiers involved in the incident were facing trial.<\/p>\n He said that the military authorities would speak on it after the trial.<\/p>\n Olukolade said, \u201cWe have gone beyond investigation. Much as it would continue to make a case against anyone found behaving unexpectedly in that incident, a number of people, as a result of that, are definitely facing trial at the moment; we will speak on it when the trial is over and it is concluded.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Nigerian military has started going after personnel who absconded from the Armed Forces. The Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, who described the act as a grave crime, said the Nigerian military would arrest those who had absconded. Olukolade stated this while speaking on issues involving the ongoing counter terrorism at Nigeria […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-cn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","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=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}