Soldiers - Pay Us Or We Storm National Assembly

The Nigerian soldiers are complaining bitterly about their salaries not been paid, even though the ggovernment had been allegedlly given money by UN to pay the soldiers. Below is the letter the soldiers wrote to the government.

“Mr President, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the federal Republic of Nigeria. We are officers and soldiers of Nigerian Battalion 37 (Nibbat 37 unmil) that came back on July 29, 2016 from a peacekeeping mission in Liberia. Since we completed our mission for 12 months but only 8 months of service were paid. Is it not disgraceful that the UN had paid defence headquarters mission allowances for complete 12 months and only 8-month payment was given to the troops?Dear Mr President, the army has refused to pay us the balance of our allowances for 4 months. We urge you to look into this issues to make your anti-corruption campaign in the armed forces a success. If nothing is done very soon, we will be forced to take the law into our own hands — which is not good obviously. Because the Nigerian army specialized in owning its troops their allowances. We keep lamenting through media houses and nothing has changed, or do you expect us to storm the National Assembly in the name of protest? No. We can’t. His excellency, address this issue of payment of outstanding allowances by the Nigerian army. Concerned officers and soldiers of Nigerian Battalion 37. Thanks. Regards.”

 This is not the first case when Nigerian soldiers are treated with disrepect — months ago the brave army soldiers fighting Boko Haram complained about being repeatedly robbed of their wages and the army leadership simply ignoring their cries.


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