The Nigerian Army has recalled about 149 soldiers of the 153 Infantry Battalion, Marte accused of abandoning the Boko Haram insurgency fight and fleeing over alleged inadequate provision of arms and ammunition.
SaharaReporters gathered that the soldiers absconded from duty after insurgents attacked their camps, leaving scores of their colleagues dead.
The insurgents had on Monday, February 15 overrun Marte.
While most of the villagers ran away for safety, some were held by the insurgents.
SaharaReporters gathered that the gunmen came with heavy machine weapons and vans, and took possession of the army formation within the community, which includes high profile combating equipment and cars.
At least 10 infantrymen have been killed throughout the incident.
The gunmen additionally set ablaze two struggle tanks and a pickup van belonging to the Nigerian Army.
“We lost about 10 infantrymen within the fight, the troops have been outgunned through the gunmen. It changed into an excessive war, the terrorists additionally suffered casualties but they were capable of overwhelm the infantrymen,” a military supply had stated.
SaharaReporters collected that infantrymen were moved to Maiduguri few days after the attack whilst the ones from Jaji Military Cantonment, Kaduna State, had been used to replace them.
The navy authorities sooner or later disregarded them and retrieved their uniforms and identification playing cards.
“We were beaten and could not withstand the superior firepower of the terrorists. Sufficient weapons had been not furnished for us to fight the terrorists and we ran out of weapons. Some of the weapons supplied for us have been obsolete, so it was not virtually our fault.
“We had been instructed to renew, I’m so glad,” one of the dismissed squaddies informed SaharaReporters.
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