Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra has asked the 101 soldiers declared wanted by the Nigerian Army following an accusation of fleeing from Boko Haram attacks in New Marte and Dikwa towns in Borno State to join the Eastern Security Network.
Kanu said that in a live broadcast on Wednesday soldiers were leaving the military in droves, noting that the ESN’s doors were open to such soldiers.
He also said that the gunmen who were burning police stations in the East were “avenging for us.”
Nigerian Army had on Wednesday given an order to declare 101 soldiers wanted for fleeing the Haram terrorists’ attacks in New Marte and Dikwa towns near Maiduguri.
The army through Operation Lafiya Dole Theatre Command had also ordered that their bank accounts be frozen pending when they would report themselves to the command.
The Theatre Command Headquarters had sent a memo to the Nigerian Army Headquarters, Abuja, to freeze the listed accounts and apprehend the alleged deserters if found.
“You are requested to declare the named officers and soldiers deserters WEF 19 Feb 21,” the document said. You are also please requested to cause the Headquarters, NAFC, to freeze their accounts and apprehend or bring them under military escort to this headquarters if seen within your Area of Responsibility,” the military memo had said.
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According to Kanu, “Sometimes I wonder, how can you come from the East, West and Middle Belt, and you are in the army? And they used you to go and fight the bandits so that you can be killed.
“Today, soldiers are leaving and they have ordered for their arrest for leaving the army. And I am telling all these soldiers to go and join the Eastern Security Network. Today, we have all these unknown gunmen; they have been avenging for us and if you come and kill us, they will avenge for us.”
