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Thursday, September 17, 2020

Nigerian Army Buries Soldier Tortured To Death By Senior Officers

The Nigerian Army, on Wednesday, interred the remains of Lance Corporal Benjamin Collins, who was tortured to death by three senior officers at the Mogadishu Barracks, Abuja, in 2017.




Collins was buried with full military honours at the Guards Brigade cemetery along Kubwa Expressway by soldiers from the Army Headquarters Garrison Battalion.


The funeral was attended by his mother, Mrs Kate Dioma; uncle, Justice Daniel Isiagor of the Federal High Court; lawyer, Dr Johnson Oyewole; and representatives of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai.


A general court martial had in February sentenced Majors Akeem Oseni and Ogbemudia Osawe, and Second Lieutenant Nuhu Dogary to 10 years’ imprisonment for torturing Collins to death.


The officers were found guilty of manslaughter by the GMC comprised of the President, Brig. Gen. G. Umelo; Brig. Gen. S. Aliyu; Brig. Gen, A. Edet; Brig. N. Mohammed; and Cols. K. Ndamadu, T. Agbor, and I. Tanko.


The convicts were said to have moved Collins from a guardroom at Mogadishu Barracks to a bush near the Ihejirika Quarters along the Abuja-Nyanya Expressway, where he was assaulted while in handcuffs and leg chains.


Collins, who hailed from Rivers State, died after the assault, which took place on February 23, 2017, and his corpse was deposited in Asokoro General Hospital morgue.
From Punch

28 comments:

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    1. God I hate this country..Just 10 years for killing a fellow man 😭😭😢😢😢😢😢

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    2. Are we not even lucky they got anything?? And all that is cos his uncle is a judge. God knows how many they have killed and brushed off. It is well.

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    3. Just 10 years. So sad..........

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  2. I see holes and subterfuge in this story.
    1. They did not tell us the soldier's offence that warranted torture
    2. The burial with military honor was
    due to his uncle being a justice of the courts in Nigeria.
    Will any other common soldier have been accorded same honor?
    What else did they cover with his corpse?
    Sad. 60 years of grand coverups.
    😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

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    1. In order words, they do not deserve to be punished since you were not informed ahead. This person, you are truly sick as people insinuate here. You need help.

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    2. You are not serious, are you?

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  3. Torture ur fellow human being to death? Omg, na their wives i dey pity. Eh gawd

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    1. Jesus! One of them was my classmate in secondary school... What the hell happened?

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  4. I did not read that these senior officers were stripped of their
    ranks and expelled from the army.
    So after 10 years, they come back to
    torture more soldiers to death?
    😮😮😮😮

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    1. Please google the full judgement document for more details.

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  5. Rip soldier but how you died is painful.

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  6. Bastards!!!! I hate these people so much.
    I did my IT in a military hospital years back and it irks me how they mete out severe punishments for simingly minor offenses.
    useless fellows. just imagine what they can do to a civilian they don't know if they can do this much to a colleague.

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  7. Wtf is 10yrs imprisonment? For such a hideous crime?!
    C'mon!,Handcuff them backwards,gag them, cover their head with plastic garbage bags and watch as life leave their bodies..
    That will serve as a deterrent to the other demented A-holes!

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    1. That would be the right sentence @Onyinyechukwu.

      A life for a life.

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    2. Interesting how we think. A deterrent indeed.

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  8. Why weren't they sentenced to death? These people are evil

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    1. Because there is a stipulated minimum and maximum number of years for each offence in different courts and countries.

      There is also the issue of lesser sentences when a plea is entered.

      We should learn to read about different topics just for the heck of it. Makes for more robust conversations.

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  9. The offenders should not only be given prison sentences but stripped of their military ranks....

    and why wait 3 long years to bury him?

    lots of holes in this story...

    May his soul continue to rest in peace.

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  10. This is so sad to read... These men in uniform are merciless

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  11. This is really sad.. What do he do that they had to treat him this way, what manner of heartlessness is this

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  12. This is wickedness, may their conscience never find peace. Rip to the Junior soldier

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  13. The sad part is Akeem is in prison for making an order. He didnt ask them to torture to death nor was he the one that tortured him. Military and politics eehn 5&6. May Collins soul rip

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  14. 10 yrs might not be enough but they will useless when they get out. I can't even imagine what his poor mother is going through.

    May His soul rest in peace.

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  15. You think they will come out of prison alive? I laugh in Swahili.

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