The Nigerian Army on Sunday says
it has dismissed three soldiers arrested among a kidnapping gang in the
outskirts of Maiduguri.
Maj.-Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, the
Theater Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed this while handing over the
dismissed soldiers to the police in Maiduguri.
Adeniyi disclosed that the
soldiers were arrested with 22 other suspects by a joint patrol team in the
early hours of Sunday at a building in the outskirts of Maiduguri.
He said that the soldiers were
initially deployed to the Operation Lafiya Dole, but engaged in nefarious
activities such as kidnapping, armed robbery, killings and cultism.
“The three soldiers were caught
among the evil group, there was further resistance and attempt to escape, so we
tied them up with ropes because handcuffs were not available.
“In addition; we could not put
violent men that do these kinds of crimes into a police van to take to the
station, there will be a breakout on the road and we know what would happen.
“We have to restrain them
thoroughly with ropes before we take them and handover to the police.
“The Acting GOC, 7 Division,
Brig.-Gen. AK Ibrahim, has conducted military procedures. We do not keep armed
robbers, kidnappers and cultists in the army, they had been dismissed.
“We gathered here to witness
their handover to the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) for civic action, they are
dismissed, and they are no longer soldiers of the Nigerian Army.
“Our code of conduct is strict
and high, no evil soldier will be allowed to serve in the army,” Adeniyi said.
The commander called on the
people to be vigilante and report suspicious persons, movement and activities
to security agencies
Meanwhile, the Borno Commissioner
of Police, Mr Mohhamed Aliyu, said the command had arrested 25 suspects at
Bagani Hotel in Abuja Sheraton Area of the metropolis.
Aliyu said the suspects belong to
a cult group called Neo Black Movement (NBM), adding that they were arrested
wearing black dresses at about 2:00 a.m. while conducting their imitation
activities.
He disclosed that preliminary
investigations indicated that most of the suspects were students of the
University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri, a medical
doctor, a banker and three dismissed soldiers.
Aliyu added that one of the
suspects fired shot in the air and run when the patrol team stormed the
hideout.
He said the suspects had been
terrorizing residents of Maiduguri and its environs and were involved in
robbing filling stations.
The commissioner revealed that
the command had recovered calabashes, a 25-liter keg containing reasonable
quantity of red substance suspected to be human blood and charms.
Other items recovered include 20
school identification cards, four ATM cards, phones, six SIM packs, one live
7.62mm ammunition and some gun powder, among others.
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