Saturday, 27 June 2015

Boko Haram: 277 soldiers languish in Jos detention facility


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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