FOR THE RECORD: Those ‘Sabotaging Our Soldiers’ Should Be Exposed

Fallen soldiers: late Lt.-Col. Muhammad Abu Ali, Sergeants Muazu Ibrahim, Bassey Okon, Hussani Jafaru, Cpl. Chukwu Simon, Private Salisu Lawal and Seaman Patrick Paul.

Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET), a human rights advocacy group, says those working against the interest of the military ought to be exposed.

TheCable report continues:

Addressing journalists on Wednesday, Joyce Adamu, executive director of CESJET, lamented the tragedy that befell the Nigerian Army as a result of the loss of the deaths of seven soldiers.

She alleged that there are people attempting to “cash in on these tragedies”.

“In the wake of these national losses and those before them, we should rather as a people be asking for who are the people that are helping Boko Haram terrorists to regroup, re-arm and launch attacks on the scales on which they have done between late September and now,” Adamu said.

“We should be demanding for the exposure of those that feed the cells of the terror group with information on troops movement and deployment to the extent that they know when to attack.

“Patriotic citizens that are genuinely interested in the well-being and future of the country would be giving encouragement to our troops not to lose courage but to be buoyed by the fallen soldiers in defending their father land.

“We are beginning to see that there are people manifesting their loss of humanity and see nothing wrong in attempting to cash in on these tragedies by making insinuations that have no place among right thinking people.”

She said the deaths of gallants soldiers should not be reduced to parodies and the subject of falsehood.

“Most of this depravity is manifested in claims that the army suffered casualty in the Boko Haram attacks because present conditions are worse than what obtained under former President Goodluck Jonathan,” she said.

“One would have expected that the army and the ministry of defence would be allowed to properly investigate what went wrong to account for such casualty instead of jumping to conclusion.

“We observed that these claims are being attributed to people who are not bold enough to reveal their identities and their so-called interviews are mostly reported by cloned sites that attempt to pass off as objective, hardworking and credible news organizations.”