Army Removes GOC Over Borno Mutiny

The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Major General Ahmadu Mohammed, has been removed, according to attest information from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.Maj.-Gen. Mohammed has been in the news  since last night when the news broke of how he escaped death by a whisker when a group of disgruntled soldiers turned their gun at his vehicle and pulled the trigger.A report today quoted a top military source as confiding last night that the GOC had been removed over the incident.“The source added that details of the circumstances leading to the GOC’s removal would be made known shortly,” the report says, adding that attempts to confirm the removal of the GOC were unsuccessful as several calls and SMS sent to the phone of the spokesperson of defence headquarters, Major-General Chris Olukolade, were not replied.Maj.-Gen. Olukolade had in a statement issued last night in Abuja disclosed that a machinery has been put in motion to investigate the mutiny.He said: “The 7 Division of the Nigerian Army is to institute a military board of inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the conduct of soldiers who fired some shots today while the General Officer Commanding was addressing troops in Maimalari cantonment Maiduguri.“The incident occurred when the corpses of 4 soldiers who died in an ambush while returning from patrol duties in Chibok was being conveyed to the morgue.“There is calm in the cantonment and all normal operations activities are ongoing

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9 Comments

  1. Very soon boko haram will focus and turn d heat on south east,south south,and south west unless jonathan drop his 2015 ambition or else.ALI MUSA

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  2. May God punish u Ali Musa, ur death is very close n u ll b crushed soon. U won't see 2015 unless u repent.

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  3. Ali Musa God has already cursed you and your decendants. You are cursed in your city, cursed in your field,cursed shall be your basket cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and ground, you will be defeated before yoUr enemies etc if you do not repent from your boko haram ways.

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  4. More actions from Army command! Good one no body should be spared. Even d so called former Nigeria military leaders in North should be watched and arrested.

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  5. Illiterate is a pure big disease cos I can see this clown ali musa is senior candidate.....south,east,west leaders are not coward, selfish, numskul like Northern leaders...u fools turn quran meaning upside down......make nna try am......Oloshi, daiska...na em u be musa

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  6. Why should he be remove the corruption is from the top let them quesion the CODS he is not been relising money ?

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  7. The corruption is from the top, let all the service cheifs go, the CODS is highlr crrupt ?

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  8. You people are fools the corruption is from the top, is true the CODS is the most corrupt let him come out and said what he did with the money relse to him in the budget ?

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  9. Ali Musa wawa iska nchi!Let your people try and see what will happen to your region.Hell will be visited upon you people.The South is eagerly waiting for any stupid move from your end and then Jahanam will be ur place of abode.Omo Ale.

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