3032 courts martialed soldiers that were pardoned has rejected redeployment to the north east of Nigeria

According to the soldiers, their redeployment to

the North East is punitive after they had been
pardoned and re-integrated into the army.
The soldiers who are being held at the
Command and Staff College, Nigerian Army
School of Infantry, NASI, Jaji, Kaduna said they
have been subjected to unimaginable ill
treatment after their pardon.
They alleged that they have not been fully re-
instated to the army because when they tried to
report to their previous units they were turned
down because the army authorities did not give
them letters of reinstatement.
They also alleged that they have been kicked
out of their homes in the barracks and have not
been paid for seven months.
“We are not going! Give us reinstatement
letters! You are sentencing us back to war,” the
soldiers were alleged to have chanted after the
Commandant of NASI, Major General Kassim
Aldulkareem, informed them that they have
been assigned new riffles and should be ready
for deployment to the fronts on January 11,
2016.
A soldiers, who asked not to be named, told
journalists that he is being maltreated after
serving the army for the better part of his life.
“Look at me; I have put in about 28 years of my
life serving this country. I have seen action in
Liberia; I have been to Rwanda, Sudan and
even served overseas and we the Nigerian
troops did very well and were decorated in some
occasions.
“But, our experience in fighting to save our
motherland is too sad a story for the outside
world to know. We are not cowards. We held on
for over four months facing Boko Haram.
“I just want to say that after the Army
dismissed about 5,000 of us, 3032 of us were
pardoned last August. Since that time, the Army
Authority has treated us like prisoners of wars,”
he said.
The Public Relations Officer, PRO, of the
Nigerian Infantry Corps, Major C.K Abaide, said
he was not aware of the development.
“I shall reach you back immediately I have our
side of the story”, he said, but had not done
this at the time of writing this report