•GOC 3 Division, Maj.-Gen. Jack Nwaogbo, speaking at the inauguration of the general court martial of some officers of the Special Task Force and Operation Safe Haven, at the 3 Division Headquarters in Jos...yesterday.
Fourteen soldiers comprising two officers and 12 recruits have been arraigned before a special military court set up by the 3 Armoured Division, Maxwel Khobe Cantonment, Jos, Plateau State.
The accused members are those of the Joint Task Force (JTF) Maiduguri and the Special Task Force (STF) Jos.
The soldiers are being arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on negligence and miscellaneous offences both punishable under Section 62 (B) and Section 58 of the Armed Forces Act CAP (A) 20 Laws of the Federation 2004.
Presenting the accused persons for the inauguration, the General Staff Officer, Personnel Service, Lt. Col. Stephen Andow, said: “The accused soldiers are those of the 3 Armoured Division serving in Maiduguri and Jos.”
The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 3 Armoured Division, Maj.-Gen. Jack Okechukwu Uwaogbo, while inaugurating the general court martial at the Rhino Officer’s Mess in Jos yesterday, said: “The setting up of the general court martial was basically to try officers and men of the special task force code-named ‘Operation safe haven’ in Jos and those of the ‘Operation restore order’ in Maiduguri.”
He said: “The action of the 3 Division in setting up the special court is one of the procedures in the Nigerian Army to right the wrongs of its personnel.
“This general court martial is meant to try the alleged men of the Nigerian Army serving within the seven states of the Northeast.
“This is not to declare the accused persons guilty of the allegations.
“I am not in a position to declare them guilty. The accused are presumed innocent until the judgment of the general court martial,” the GOC said.
The president of the general court martial, Brig.-Gen. Ademoh Salihu, promised fair hearing, adding that he would come up with an incorruptible judgment at the end of the trial.
The prosecuting counsel was led by Col. Adekunle Ariyibi of the Legal
Department of the 3 Division, while Agana Kitusu, James Attah and Pebi Dusu are some of the counsel to the accused.
via The Nation http://www.punchng.com/metro/youths-bar-bishops-from-entering-cathedral/
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