Tinubu Gives Military High Command Full Powers to Go After Killers of 16 Soldiers in Delta
President Tinubu has given the Defense Headquarters full powers to go after the killers of sixteen soldiers, including an army commander, a captain and two majors at Okuama in Ughelli South local government area of Delta state.
Some of the soldiers were beheaded, their heart ripped out by the youths.
Tinubu in a statement he personally signed directed the military high command to ensure that, the killers are brought to book.
The sixteen soldiers were ambushed last Thursday, by some youths while responding to a distress call from communities involved in communal clashes in Ughelli South and Bomadi local government areas.
The military, according to Tinubu are the heart and core of the nation warning that, any attack on the armed forces was an attack on Nigeria.
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Describing the killing as needless, Tinubu orders DHQ to ensure that all those behind the killing are prosecuted adding that, they were cowardly offenders who would not go unpunished.
Soldiers have continued laying siege on Okuama where the 16 soldiers and their commanders were killed.
The troops are searching nook and crannies of the town which has been deserted by residents in the wake of invasion by troops.
Meanwhile, the senate has backed the ongoing moves by the Defense Headquarters (DHQ) to fish out youths who killed 16 soldiers, including an army battalion commander, while on a peace keeping mission in Delta state.
The Senate committee on the army in a condolence message to the chief of defense staff and chief of army staff on Sunday, said the senate stand resolutely along the chief of defense staff and the army chief of staff in seeking justice fir the fallen heroes.
The committee chairman, Senator Abdulaziz Yar’adua, said the Senate would support the necessary investigations and legal process to ensure that those responsible for the deaths face the full consequences of law.
