The Militaty Court martial sitting in Abuja has struck out the case of Cowardice brought against the former commander of the Multi-National Joint task force, Brig-Gen Enitan Ransome Kuti.
But the trial of Ransome -Kuti continues as he still has other charges to respond to,which Includes failure to perform military duties and miscellaneous offences relating to loss of the army’s armaments.
The armament he allegedly could not account for, according to the army authorities, comprised three multipurpose light-armoured towing vehicles (MTLB in Russian), three rocket-propelled grenade launchers, two pan herd, three Sagie, one VBL amoured vehicle, eight general purpose machine guns, eight browning machine guns, two trucks, 12 Hilux vehicles and large quantity of ammunition,during the attack on Baga MNJTF Base in January.
The senior army officer is a son of the late pro-democracy and human rights activist, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, and nephew to the late Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.he was arraigned before the court June this year
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