The aggrieved infantrymen, who spoke to SaharaReporters on Tuesday accused the duo of corruption and absence of care which primarily based mostly on them has resulted in mass retirement of defense force personnel and desertion.
Some Nigerian Army personnel maintain called on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, asking for the quick redeployment of Chief of Personnel Administration (CPM), Maj. Gen. Y Yahaya and Infantry Corp Commander (ICC), Maj Gen OO Oluyede.
The aggrieved infantrymen, who spoke to SaharaReporters on Tuesday accused the duo of corruption and absence of care which primarily based mostly on them has resulted in mass retirement of defense force personnel and desertion.
The infantrymen who spoke to SaharaReporters on situation of anonymity lamented that opposite to the Armed Forces Act on operations of the Nigerian defense force that stipulates that infantrymen need to no longer believe in a enviornment past four years, so many infantrymen had been confined in a single barracks for eight years and 10 years.
The infantrymen in a petition to the Chief of Army Staff towards the duo which changed into once made available to SaharaReporters on Tuesday, claimed that the officers had eradicated to begin Infantry posting during this 300 and sixty five days, adding that the posting changed into once purported to be launched quarterly after every three months.
“Maj Gen Y Yahaya, Chief of Personnel Administration (CPM), and Maj Gen OO Oluyede, Infantry Corp Commander (ICC); maintain no longer launched Infantry posting during this 300 and sixty five days. Infantry posting is purported to be launched quarterly after every three months – first quarter posting, second quarter posting, third quarter posting, and fourth quarter posting but up until now no longer certainly one of many postings had been launched. We are within the third quarter, but since this 300 and sixty five days officers’ posting maintain near out more than four times but soldier’s posting will not be any contrivance.
“The vogue our generals are treating us will not be any longer aesthetic at all. They wreck no longer care about our welfare. All they care about is to construct money, and that’s why infantrymen are going for retirement. As we keep in touch, some infantrymen are even working away without placing paper because of the struggling that is in other ranks. They wreck no longer care in regards to the welfare of the other foul, is easiest officers they care about. Unprejudiced disclose about officers posting maintain near out more than four times easiest this 300 and sixty five days but our Infantry posting maintain no longer near out which is share of Army Policy.”
“Some of us infantrymen maintain stayed in a single barrack for more than eight years now but a soldier will not be any longer purported to lift in a single barrack for more than four years. This goes on because of the corruption within the Army hierarchy, the authorities wreck no longer care anymore.
“So we calling on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt Gen Taoreed Lagbaja to remove the Chief of Personnel Administration and Infantry Corp Commander within the event that they are able to’t attain their work anymore,” the infantrymen stated within the petition.
The Nigerian Army has but to react to the petition raised by the infantrymen to the COAS.
