Arms Scam: 8 Senior Military Officers Face Dismissal

                              

Indication that  eight serving officers may be dismissed from service was given by the Defence Headquarters on Saturday, while maintaining that the military supported the Federal Government’s actions to cleanse the nation of corruption.

The Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Rabe Abubakar, in an interview with Sunday PUNCH, said the military officers indicted for involvement in the arms fraud scandal would face both civil and military laws.
He hinted that the personnel might be dismissed from service, saying that the armed forces would not harbour officers that lacked integrity.
Abubakar stated that the armed forces would support and implement whatever directives of the government in respect of serving personnel indicted for corruption by the Presidential Committee on the Audit of Defence Equipment Procurement in the Armed Forces led by AVM Jon Ode (retd.).
He explained that the military was subservient to civil authority and would fully adopt whatever measures the government rolled out against offenders.

He said, “You are aware that security officers are wearing two caps – they are under two laws, civil laws and military laws and each of these laws are aimed at taking certain actions that correct anomalies which had been on for some time.

“The officers who have been indicted, whatever the government decides to adopt, is what the military would equally subject themselves to because we are subservient to the government. Whatever government’s moves are, we have to quickly fall in with whatever instructions it issues.”