Nigerian
Army, Military Commanders Working For Boko
Haram Deserve Death Sentence Not The Soldiers
– Dr Perry Brimah
Charge General Azubuike Ihejirika, Army Chiefs
For Crimes Against Humanity
It is important to recognize as the cases against
General Azubuike Ihejririka and in effect the head
of the Nigerian government are again laid out,
that the army Chief occupied his office and
executed his duty illegally for the entire 4 years,
as his appointment was never approved by the
Nigerian senate. He was thus sacked by President
Jonathan under a court order of July of 2013.
After Attorney Festus Keyamo’s court victory the
Attorney gave the gave the President of Nigeria a
two week ultimatum to fire the illegally in office
army Chief. This by itself is treasonable and acts
in sabotage of the Nigerian State.
Firstly, the Baga massacre by the Nigerian army
of April 2013 in which up to 200 civilians were
burned by weapons of the Nigerian army in
uncontrolled reaction to terror while assisting the
genocidal mission of the terrorists, remains un-
addressed. General Azubuike Ihejirika must be full
held to account for the events of that fateful date
which amount to crimes against humanity and
terrorism of the people of Nigeria’s north. In line
with this photo-publicized atrocity, the numerous
violations reported by global human right groups
which have included summarily executions of
hundreds to thousands of Nigerians, of note the
execution of suspected terrorists in mass graves
after the Giwa barracks break; are all potential
crimes against humanity and globally witnesses
acts of terror that demand the immediate
restriction of movement and investigation of the
former and current heads of the army for
terrorism and crimes against the people of north
Nigeria.
A lack of military response for hours to days after
alerts were clearly given by schools and villages
of Boko Haram attacks; constitutes failure to
protect the citizenry with means given by the
Nigerian State and are potential acts of treason
and punishable Crimes against the people
resident in the nation’s north.
The transfer of weapons to the north for the war
against Boko Haram and the resulting use of
these very weapons by Boko Haram terrorists
against the people of north Nigeria is another
serious issue that deserves full investigation for
cooperation of the former Chief of army with Boko
Haram terrorists and his facilitation of their
operations including by direct provision of
weaponry.
The currently witnessed multiple cases of the
charging of Nigerian soldiers and sentencing them
for various offences, from absconding to sabotage
of the mission against terror, illustrates the
expected behavior of a competent military. The
well known fact that for the entire 4 years of
General Azubuike Ihejirika’s reign, not a single
army officer was tried and sentenced in spite of
serial cases of demonstrated dereliction,
abandonment of position and release/transfer of
arms, ammunition and military vehicles to Boko
Haram, makes the General complicit in terror and
culpable of crimes against humanity.
As charged by the United States in strong and
informed accusations levied by US Ambassador to
Nigeria, James Entwistle directly to Nigeria’s
President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in September
of this year, the army General stands accused of
subverting billions of dollars funds for the kitting
of the Nigerian army. This embezzlement of funds
directly led to the deplorable state of the army
and the deadly lack of capacity and motivation to
quell the Boko Haram menace that has now
become a full blown occupation of much of the
northeast of Nigeria.
Along with the current Chief of Defense, Air
Marshal Alex Badeh, who stands guilty of
sabotage and treason against the Nigerian State
for his cooperation with terrorists by declaring an
unfounded and deadly cessation of fire to assist
the terrorists capture territory and harm Nigerian
life; both army Chiefs have directly and indirectly
supported Boko Haram terror by indefensible
dereliction of duty, failure to execute sworn
obligations to the Nigerian State and subversion
of resource for the arming of the military and
protection of the populace.
There must be standards in Nigeria and as the
army commanders and lower level officers are
facing tribunals and being sentenced to death for
their offenses, so also must the Nigerian army
Cheifs, past and current be tried for the numerous
globally recognized crimes against humanity and
their accused acts of terror against nation.

Unfortunately Nigerians like to sacrifice the underdogs. How many nairalanders have you seen express interest in investigating the sentenced soldiers claims? Apparently they lacked equipment and had no medical services attached to them. This is apart from the looted rice and other materials supplied by the state government. I am truly disgusted at the sentence because it is a case of the army elite trying to silence it's internal critics. The whole top brass, which one can lead men at the Battle front? Fat as stuffed pigs it is clear they never expected any serious challenge to disturb their path to retirement after fleecing the army. If bh is to be defeated we need to make sure our military chiefs are responsible and seasoned. If this government dares to execute one soldier in this case, well, God watches us all and I pray his vengeance is hard and swift.

and they thought boko haram were killing our soldiers. not knowing is this pot belly animals that call them selves "ogas at the top"