The
Nigerian Army has dismissed close to 200 soldiers, as a result of their
cowardice in tackling the Boko Haram insurgents terrorising communities
in the nation’s north-east.
The Army said on Tuesday at the
Rukuba Barracks in Jos, the Plateau State capital, that the militias
were dismissed due to their negligence of duty.
The
dismissal is coming months after the military increased
counter-terrorism operations in the north-east, chasing the terrorists,
trying to establish an Islamic State, out of communities they had
earlier occupied.
Troops of the Nigerian Armed Forces in
collaboration with neighbouring countries armies have also made
remarkable breakthrough in their efforts to dislodge the terrorists from
their Sambisa Forest stronghold.
Last week, some 260 women and
children rescued from the Boko Haram terrorists’ stronghold, Sambisa
Forest, were relocated from a camp in the North-eastern city of Yola to
an unspecified military facility.
The Nigerian troops fighting
the terrorist group had also inflicted another crushing defeat on the
Islamist militants at the Sambisa Forest, in a major offensive described
as ‘merciless’ against the insurgency.
The Nigeria Army then
warned that the army would not condole any act of cowardice, neglect or
indiscipline from any of its personnel.
Credit: Channels
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