- The soldiers provided de-induction forms they filled out with bank details after their two-year service and alleged fraud by the Nigerian Army high command
Some soldiers deployed in Nigeria’s North-East to combat Boko Haram have complained about not receiving their de-induction allowances.
According to SaharaReporters, these soldiers, part of Operation “Hadin Kai” involving the armed forces, police, and paramilitary operatives, serve for two years and are supposed to receive a parting allowance of N1 million.
However, some Nigerian Army troops, speaking anonymously, claimed they have not received their allowances, unlike their counterparts in the Navy, Air Force, and Customs, who confirmed receiving N1 million each.
The soldiers provided de-induction forms they filled out with bank details after their two-year service and alleged fraud by the Nigerian Army high command.
“You see, when a soldier is inducted into the theater of operations, he is expected to stay for a minimum of two years after which he will be de-inducted and return to his unit.
“But there is a form that the soldier will fill before leaving, and it is expected that the army will pay some money into the account of every soldier that is de-inducted; but soldiers filled the forms, the hierarchy will put the money in their pockets and make claims that they paid the soldier.
“All the land soldiers have not been collecting but customs, navy and others have been getting N1million at the end of duty.
“Like when we came in, we were like 200 and something. They have not been paying that money and you can’t leave here without filling that form,” an anonymous said.
Efforts to get the Nigerian Army respond to the allegation were unsuccessful, as several calls to the mobile phone of the spokesperson for the Army, Maj Gen Onyema Nwachukwu were not answered and a text message to that effect was not replied to.