A cross section of Nigerian soldiers charged
for mutiny and other offences during a court martial at the Abacha Barracks
More than
277 soldiers arrested for various offences in the ongoing war against
insurgency by Boko Haram in the North-East are currently languishing at the
Maxwell Khobe cantonment, Rukuba Barracks detention facility of the 3rd Armoured
Division of the Nigerian Army in Jos, Plateau State.
It was
gathered that the soldiers were arrested at various times in the last six
months in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, for various offences and are
being detained by the Military Police in the barracks.
Sources at the barracks told our correspondent that the soldiers were
being detained in dehumanising condition without trial for the past six months.
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