Army Colonel And Other Soldiers Helping Boko Haram Arrested.
The Nigerian Army has announced that a Colonel, some junior officers and soldiers helping and working hand-in-hand with members of the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram in the North East has been apprehended. The military personnel were involved in the offensive to reclaim communities taken over by the Boko Haram terrorists in Adamawa State. Army authorities were angered by the report and ordered the arrest of the commander, the junior officers as well as the soldiers under his command. The colonel who is a Muslim was Commanding a team of three Armoured Personnel Carriers, APCās, with the capability of firing up to a range of 1.5kilometres or more, deliberately set the APCs on fire between Gulak and Madagali, and ran into the bush with his team instead of firing at the advancing terrorists. A source that was aware of the development revealed that before the embarrassing incident occurred, the Special Forces of the Nigerian Army who commenced the putsch to rout Boko Haram ...