Some Yoruba elders and stakeholders under the umbrella of a group, Yoruba Summit Group, have condemned the court-martial of Major General Olusegun Adeniyi.
It would be recalled that Adeniyi had in March revealed in a viral video that troops fighting the Boko Haram insurgency had no credible intelligence and lacked essential weapons for the mission.
The video riled up Nigerians on social media pressuring the government to put an end to the insecurity crisis in the country.
The incident instigated a redeployment of the Major General from being the commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, to the Nigerian Army Resource Centre in Abuja.
The leaders demanded that Adeniyi must be safe in his new deployment with no harm.
The group said, “The Yorùbá nation notes with sadness that on the very day our daughter Tolulope went home, a senior military officer, Major General Olusegun Adeniyi, was court-martialled for daring to voice out the lack of tools and equipment needed to prosecute a Boko Haram war that has become far too prolonged and far too controversial in light of the numerous calls to the Federal Government to change the service chiefs who have failed to provide the highest quality of security, leadership, and delivery of forthrightness in their duties.
“We the Yorùbá condemn in strong terms the cherry-picking of our fighters, soldiers, officers as either cannon fodders easy-targets, operational fall-guys and being used for experimental disciplinary measures whilst the real culprits go free!
“Critical to this development are also pieces of news items of friendly fire from soldiers of a particular part of the country using their guns on our fighters who dare carry the battle deep into the Boko Haram held territories.”
