Nigerian Army discharged and acquitted 57 soldiers Sentenced To Death In December
A special court martial of the Nigerian Army has discharged and acquitted 57 soldiers who were charged with losing their weapons and going on an Absence Without Official Leave (AWOL) while battling insurgents last year, Post Nigeria is reporting, quoting a source in the office of the National Security Adviser.
In December last year, the soldiers were charged with conspiracy to commit a mutiny after their revolt led to the death a few of their colleagues in a duel with insurgents.
The soldiers had claimed that their weapons were inferior to the enemy’s at the time.
The court martial, which sat at the Army Headquarters Garrison in Abuja also convicted 15 other soldiers, sentencing them to one-year prison sentences.
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