Pardon 70 soldiers convicted of mutiny, Falana begs Buhari

Pardon 70 soldiers convicted of mutiny, Falana begs Buhari

- The Nigerian Army convicted and sentenced 70 soldiers to death in 2014 for for demanding weapons to fight the well-equipped insurgents in the north east zone.

- The Nigerian Army later commuted the death sentences passed on the soldiers to 10 years imprisonment.

A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to grant presidential pardon to the seventy soldiers convicted of mutiny offences who are now serving their jail terms in Ikoyi and Kirikiri prisons respectively.
Why Buhari must pardon 70 soldiers convicted of mutiny, by Falana

In a letter written on behalf of the soldiers on December 19, 2016, Falana (SAN), noted that the soldiers were charged with mutiny before courts-martial for demanding weapons to fight the well-equipped insurgents in the north east zone.

Falana said, “In a bid to divert attention of the public from the criminal diversion of the huge funds earmarked for procurement of arms and ammunition to fight the terrorists, our clients were convicted and sentenced to death by the courts-martial which tried them in 2014."

The senior advocate of Nigeria recalled that on the basis of a previous appeal, the authorities of the Nigerian Army commuted the death sentences passed on the soldiers to 10 years imprisonment.

He, therefore, urged the president to go further and grant them pardon, recalling the president’s BBC Hausa Service interview on December 28 last year in which Buhari observed that the preceding government sent the soldiers to the battlefield without arms and ammunition to prosecute the war.

“That was what led some of them to mutiny. They were arrested and detained because of this”, he said to the interviewer.

He said that even assuming his clients committed any offence, they have suffered enough, having spent over three years in dehumanizing prison conditions.

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