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Sunday 2 November 2014
Boko-Mubi battle: Army arrests six senior officers for fleeing
Six military
commanders, including an injured Lieutenant
Colonel, have been arrested by the military for
withdrawing from Mararaba, Michika, Madagali,
Mubi and later Vimtim when Boko Haram
insurgents attacked the communities last week.
It was learnt that an unspecified number of
soldiers were also in detention for allegedly
abandoning the communities, thereby making
easy for the insurgents to have an upper hand.
A reliable military source, who made this known
in Abuja on Sunday said the movement of five of
the commanders had been restricted to the
officers mess in a military formation.
The source, who did not name the military
formation, because of security reason, added that
“one of them, a Leutenant Colonel is receiving
treatment at the MRS in Yola for serious injuries
he sustained when the car in which he was
escaping with somersaulted several times.”
He said the injured officer would join his
colleagues in the officers mess on recovery.
Our source said, “Today (Sunday), the military
authorities arrested five commanders around
the Mubi axis of Adamawa State. The sixth is a Lt.
Col.
“Some of those arrested were at Mararaba,
Madagali, Michika and other locations. I think the
military leaders are saying that the soldiers did
not resist the Boko Haram when they invaded the
place.”
Our source explained that the Defence authorities
had already commenced investigations into the
activities of all its personnel in relation with the
capture of Mubi, the second largest town in
Adamawa State and other supposedly “fortified
locations,” including Vimtim, the home town of
the Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh.
The insurgents had reportedly burnt Badeh’s
residence, a clinic and a civic centre in the
community on Thursday.
The source explained that the military authorities
were determined to find out why the Boko
Haram’s advance in the state was not resisted by
the troops.
He said the military chiefs were of the opinion
that the “tactical withdrawal” of the soldiers from
their positions was nothing but a “display of
indiscipline and cowardice which would not be
tolerated.”
Our correspondents gathered that it was the
military authority’s conviction that enough
weapons and men were deployed in Mubi and
other locations to frustrate the any attack by the
insurgents.
On Thursday, the Minister of Defence, Lt.Gen.
Aliyu Gusau; the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief
Marshal Alex Badeh and the Chief of Army Staff,
Lt. Gen Kenneth Minimah, declined to speak with
journalists on issues relating to the capture of
Mubi and the other communities by the
insurgents.
When contacted on the issue, the Director of
Defence Information, Maj.-Gen Chris Olukolade,
said, “Anyone found to have undermined the
ongoing operation will face appropriate sanctions
and this is well known to all military personnel.”
Another source, who confided in one of our
correspondents, said soldiers had a grueling
encounter on Sunday with insurgents at Bladeba
about one and half kilometers from Mubi.
He said the soldiers were able to take over some
of the checkpoints captured by the insurgents.
It was also learnt that some of the insurgents in
control of Mubi were moving towards Hildi to
avoid aerial bombardments.
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