Former Minister of Aviation, Olufemi Fani-Kayode, has blast President Muhammadu Buhari, the Minister of Defence, Rtd Brig. Gen. Mansur Mohammed Dan Ali and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai over the alleged ‘secret burial’ of soldiers killed by Boko Haram insurgents.
“The most reprehensible thing that our government can do is to cover-up the
fact that 105 of our soldiers were killed by Boko Haram in battle.It is evil”.
“A soldier ought to be honored in death and this is especially so if he dies
in the course of doing his duty and fighting for his nation”.
“The government has not only dishonored them by not acknowledging their
sacrifice but they have also buried them in the wilderness like rabid dogs”.
“This is wickedness of the highest order and Pres. Buhari, his Chief of Army
Staff and his Min. of Defence should bury their heads in shame”.
“I am outraged by the fact that a soldier will sacrifice his life for his
country yet the citizens of that country don’t even appreciate it,” he posted
on his Twitter Handle.
Recall that the Nigerian Army, Tuesday, quietly buried several dead soldiers
at the military cemetery in Maiduguri, according to THISDAY newspaper.
Online news website, Premium Times, had reported that 105 soldiers attached
to the 157 Battalion were killed after they came under a penetrating attack
from Boko Haram in Gudunbali.
However, the Director of Army Public Relations at the Defence Headquarters
(DHQ) in Abuja, Col.Sani Usman, described the report as a smear camapiagn
against the Nigerian military.
He also told THISDAY newspapers that the burial
that took place was not that of the purported 105 dead or missing soldiers.
Read Fani-Kayode tweets below
The most reprehensible thing that
our govt. can do is to cover-up the fact that 105 of our soldiers were killed
by BH in battle. It is evil.
A soldier ought to be honored in
death and this is especially so if he dies in the course of doing his duty and
fighting for his nation.
The govt. has not only dishonored
them by not acknowledging their sacrifice but they have also buried them in the
wilderness like rabid dogs
This is wickedness of the highest
order and Pres. Buhari, his Chief of Army Staff and his Min. of Defence should
bury their heads in shame.
Anyone that buys the lie and
propaganda that the 105 soldiers never died and that they are still alive is a
compound fool or village idiot.
Will the military also deny the fact
that 2 days ago 34 of our soldiers were killed by BH. These boys died for their
country. Why deny them?
I am outraged by the fact that a
soldier will sacrifice his life for his country yet the citizens of that
country don’t even appreciate it.
Pictures were posted. Everyone in
the military knows they are dead. It is an open secret. Yet because govt denies
it so many just believe.
culled from Vanguard
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