VERY SAD:Over 1000 Soldiers killed and secretly buried in Maiduguri
More than 1,000 soldiers killed on the battlefront in the battle against insurgency have been secretly buried in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, a report through The Wall Street Journal has said.
The report published on Wednesday said: “The bodies are laid by using flashlight into trenches dug by soldiers or neighborhood villagers paid a few bucks per shift.”
It quoted military sources adding that the range of soldiers buried in that manner should be higher than the figure.
“Several of my comrades had been buried in unmarked graves at night,” a soldier from the Maimalari barracks, where more than 1,000 soldiers are based, was quoted saying.
It stated on the eve of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Borno in November, military commanders secretly moved corpses of soldiers from a morgue to unmarked graves.
“When President Buhari visited the Maiduguri base in November, commanders rushed to bury bodies that had amassed at the morgue from the recent attack on the base in Metele and several others, in accordance to numerous soldiers at the base,” the report said.
It additionally said as the commanders organized the base for the president’s arrival, they drafted in additional clinical personnel to treat the dozens of wounded soldiers in the base’s health facility wards.
The report introduced that as soldiers tried to complain about their prerequisites when Buhari addressed them, the president pledged to do everything inside his powers to continue empowering them.
“As the secret cemetery at the Maimalari barracks grows, the navy has extended the site into neighboring fields,” the Wall Street Journal report said.
It additionally alleged that the Federal Government had in view that last year stopped reporting the deaths of soldiers in its fight with Boko Haram insurgents and a splinter group known as the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).
The report published on Wednesday said: “The bodies are laid by using flashlight into trenches dug by soldiers or neighborhood villagers paid a few bucks per shift.”
“Several of my comrades had been buried in unmarked graves at night,” a soldier from the Maimalari barracks, where more than 1,000 soldiers are based, was quoted saying.
It stated on the eve of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Borno in November, military commanders secretly moved corpses of soldiers from a morgue to unmarked graves.
“When President Buhari visited the Maiduguri base in November, commanders rushed to bury bodies that had amassed at the morgue from the recent attack on the base in Metele and several others, in accordance to numerous soldiers at the base,” the report said.
It additionally said as the commanders organized the base for the president’s arrival, they drafted in additional clinical personnel to treat the dozens of wounded soldiers in the base’s health facility wards.
The report introduced that as soldiers tried to complain about their prerequisites when Buhari addressed them, the president pledged to do everything inside his powers to continue empowering them.
“As the secret cemetery at the Maimalari barracks grows, the navy has extended the site into neighboring fields,” the Wall Street Journal report said.
It additionally alleged that the Federal Government had in view that last year stopped reporting the deaths of soldiers in its fight with Boko Haram insurgents and a splinter group known as the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).
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