Soldiers shoot selves to avoid deployment to B/haram areas

About 7 soldiers at the weekend allegedly opened fire on different parts of their bodies to avoid deployment to communities seized by boko haram, Nigerian Tribune reports. The soldiers claimed that they were shot by the insurgents but it was later discovered that the injuries were self inflicted during medical examination.  

The source added that when the soldiers were brought to the hospital in Adamawa, the injuries were fresh, while the bullets just pierced through the flesh to the other side, with no bone affected. He claimed that the ‘attack on the soldiers was carefully masterminded by the troops, so as to look as if the Boko Haram, terrorists actually attacked them.’

The source revealed that many of the soldiers had devised means, so as not to be set for battlefield, while others faked strange ailments.

The source also told NT that the army high command has arrested orderlies and close aides of commanders on the field who were discovered to be passing information to the Boko Haram terrorists about its strategies and operational road map in the North East