•Urge presidency to investigate military welfare, salary
Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai: To to effect the welfare reforms?
The Nigerian Army has listened to the outcry against the alleged withholding of entitlements of soldiers, especially those engaged in internal security operations against Boko Haram terrorists/Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the North East and other parts of the country.
This is even as the presidency have been urged to set up an investigative board of inquiry to look into the welfare of Nigerian military as soldiers still raised concerns over what they regard as high level of corruption in the military, robbery of their allowances, entitlements and discriminatory wage disparity in the armed force.
Sources within the Nigerian Army speaking on the condition of anonymity grumbled over the non payment of allowance that is due to soldiers fighting insurgency in the Northeast and their poor salary compared to their counterparts in the Nigerian Navy and Nigerian Air Force (NAF), which according to them is morale dampening.
In another letter, allegedly signed by a certain Lcpl Musa A of the Nigerian Army to President Muhammadu Buhari, revealed that sequel to the initial petitions to president on the matter, the sum of N20, 000 was paid to soldiers as combat duty allowance.
Musa however, described the payment as just a camouflage by the Nigerian Army as they will never pay anything again and the long gap salary disparity will still remain.
He said there is a need to address the disparity and ensure equal payment among the Armed forces of Nigeria to boost the morale of troops in fighting against insurgency especially prestigious North East.
The letter reads:” Sequel to the grumbling in the Army due to pay disparity with other Arm forces of Nigeria, I on behalf of colleague are here to appreciate the media over their concerns and support they gave to us in publishing the News.
“Media indeed are the voice of voiceless and help of helpless, there are many petitions written by our fellow soldiers but due to no media intervention all in vain but this one due to help of media, Nigerian Army has today paid into personnel account the sum of twenty thousand naira respectively according to their ranks (N20, 000) . ”
“But the question is that the money is for what? All we seek is salary equality but Army just on February 13, 2020, paid money called combat duty allowance. Point to be noted is that, army just paid this money to do camouflage after this one they will never pay anything again and the long gap salary disparity will still remain.
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