Military authorities prosecuting the
war against terrorism in the North East states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe have
arrested several soldiers, who were discovered to have leaked vital security
information on the troops’ strategies and tactics to Boko Haram that led to a
series of ambush and killing of over 30 Nigerian soldiers in recent times.
Most of the arrested soldiers serve
as orderlies or aide-de-camps, ADCs to Commanders of Troops on the field.
It was gathered that the alleged
moles among the soldiers leaked the information on the deployment of soldiers
from Maimalari Barracks in April this year to the terrorists which led to an
ambush and killing of so many soldiers of the 101 Battalion that consequently
led to soldiers’ mutiny and the shooting at the General Officer Commanding
(GOC) 7 Division, Major General Ahmed Mohammed. His armoured official car saved
his life.
Vanguard further gathered that the activities of these moles may
have been responsible for the recent shooting of the Nigerian Airforce Alpha
Jet on September 12 which took off from Yola airport and was reported missing
until Boko Haram terrorists said they shot it down and killed one of its pilot,
which was confirmed by the Facebook account of friends of the military.
Speaking under condition of
anonymity, a reliable source said Commanders on the field had for long wondered
how information on strategies for deployment, type of weaponry and fall back
tactics easily filtered out to the terrorists to the extent that soldiers’
movement, timing of deployment, and routes to take, became known to Boko Haram
insurgents.
“The situation became so bad that
there was mutual suspicion among fellow commanders, the Brigade headquarters
and even the Division headquarters. But at last, the moles were found out to be
some of the orderlies and aides of Commanders. What they do is that after operational
briefings and troops take off, these moles immediately pass on the information
through calls.”
Asked why it was difficult to
discover the traitors before now, the source said, “Who will suspect that an
orderly or the ADC of a Commander will be the one giving out information. He
does everything for the Commander and he is with him all the time. He is the
last person that would be suspected. But thank God, they have been exposed; the
truth is now known”.
Already, the source noted that a
Board of Inquiry (BOI) has been set up to carry out further investigations into
the activities of the traitors and to try to find out if there were fellow
fifth columnists still existing among the troops, after which a General Court
Martial will be constituted to try the soldiers for Criminal Conspiracy among
others.
Also, Vanguard was
told at the weekend that six officers taking part in the offensive to flush out
the terrorists from the Adamawa axis recently shot themselves in parts of their
bodies that were not life threatening with a view to escape being drafted to
the battle field to confront Boko Haram terrorists.
After allegedly shooting themselves
in the arm, hip, foot and making sure that the bullets did not affect any bones
in these parts of their bodies, the officers ran to a military hospital and
claimed that they were shot by terrorists.
Medical experts attached to the
hospital in Vintim, after carrying out several checks and x-rays on the gunshot
wounds, discovered that the officers had ‘clean gunshot wounds’ which meant the
injuries were 99% self inflicted.
Vanguard gathered that the Army High Command ordered that further
medical tests be carried out to be doubly sure and that the x-rays were sent to
Abuja where experts did further analysis and came out with the same results of
‘Clean Gunshot Wounds’ .
“In one instance, an officer
expertly shot at his arm from the front and the bullet came out from the back
without touching any bone neither did it destroy any artery that would endanger
the treatment of the hand. In another instance, an officer just opened fire on
his foot but made sure no toe or dangerous part of the foot was affected,” a
source said.
Source: Vanguard
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