News: Mubi Raid: Military arrests 6 soldiers for running from Boko Haram

The military authorities have ordered the arrest of six commanders, including an injured Lieutenant Colonel for reportedly withdrawing from Mararaba, Michika, Madagali, Mubi and later Vimtim when Boko Haram raided the communities last week.

It gathered that some military officers were also in detention for allegedly fleeing the volatile communities, thereby allowing the insurgents penetrate into the town.

Punch reports that the movement of five of the commanders had been restricted to the officers’ mess in a military formation.

According to military sources, “one of them, a Leutenant Colonel, is receiving treatment at the MRS in Yola for serious injuries he sustained when the car in which he was escaping with somersaulted several times.”

He said the injured officer would join his colleagues in the officers’ mess on recovery.

The source further claimed, "Today (Sunday), the military authorities arrested five commanders around the Mubi axis of Adamawa State. The sixth is a Lt. Col.

“Some of those arrested were at Mararaba, Madagali, Michika and other locations. I think the military leaders are saying that the soldiers did not resist the Boko Haram when they invaded the place.”

Another source told the newspaper that the Defence authorities had already commenced investigations into the activities of all its personnel in relation with the capture of Mubi, the second largest town in Adamawa State and other supposedly “fortified locations,” including Vimtim, the home town of the Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh.

Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen Chris Olukolade, in his response to an inquiry said, “Anyone found to have undermined the ongoing operation will face appropriate sanctions and this is well known to all military personnel”.