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Dismissed Soldiers asked to return to work

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3,032 out of 5000 dismissed soldiers, have been asked to return to work. The acting Director of Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, according to a NAN report, made this known at a news conference in Abuja today.

Usman, made it clear that the cases presented to the disciplinary review committee were treated on merit, adding that the review process was still on. Usman said, only soldiers with disciplinary cases have been reinstated as those with criminal cases are not even considered by the committee.

Usman stated: “You would recall that the Nigerian Army recently instituted a committee to review the recent disciplinary cases in the service, especially of those soldiers in the defunct ‘Operation Zaman Lafiya.’The committee has concluded its initial sitting and has made certain recommendation that led to the reinstatement of 3, 0 32 soldiers out of 5,000 cases reviewed so far.
The cases reviewed were only disciplinary as no criminal cases were considered, the review is ongoing but the bulk of the work has been done for the time being.”

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Usman said the reinstated soldiers had since commenced re-training at a military facility in Niger preparatory for their eventual redeployment to the operational theatre. He mentioned that re-training would reacquaint the reinstated soldiers with development in the reinvigorated fight against insurgency in parts of the Northeast.

“The reinstated soldiers have shown their total readiness to be re-launched into theatre to combat insurgency and have commenced a re-training at the Nigerian Army Training Centre, Kontagora, Niger. This training is to re-orientate the affected soldiers and prepare them for the closing stage of the operational aspect of the counter-insurgency operations with more weapons and new leadership.
It must, however, be made clear that not all dismissed soldiers were granted pardon and recalled, those with criminal cases, had their sentences upheld,” he said.

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It would be recalled that the Nigerian Army under its former Chief, Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah, tried and punished soldiers involved in the ongoing counter-insurgency operations for indiscipline.

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