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Tension as soldiers protest none payment of allowances

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Tension as soldiers protest none payment of allowances

Some soldiers who fought in the AU Peace-keeping operation in Guinea Bissau in 2015, have protested none payment of six months’ allowances.

The soldiers, numbering about 200 from the the 158 Task Force Battalion situated in Gubio Local Government Area of Borno state, informed journalists in Yola , the Adamawa state capital,said the failure by military authorities to pay the allowances is already generating tension in the affected battalion.
According to one of the soldiers, they were in Yola purposely to express their displeasure to the press so that those concerned will release their outstanding allowances.
He further said that it was lamentable fact that ‎men committed to fighting Boko Haram have been starved of their allowances despite their sacrifices, adding that the development is also affecting the fight against insurgency.
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