{"id":31720,"date":"2014-10-03T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=31720"},"modified":"2014-10-03T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:45:06","slug":"mutiny-primate-appeals-fg-spare-soldiers-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/mutiny-primate-appeals-fg-spare-soldiers-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutiny: Primate Appeals To FG To Spare Soldiers Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Primate of Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Rev. Nicholas<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Okoh, has appealed to the Federal Government to spare the lives of 12<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">soldiers sentenced to death for mutiny.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Okoh made this appeal on Friday in Abuja while speaking to journalists at<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the sidelines of the 2014 Anglican Communicators Conference at St. Mathias<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anglican Church, Zone 3, Wuse.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The soldiers were on September 16, 2014, sentenced to death by a General<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Court Marshal of the Nigerian Army for attempting to kill their General<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Officer Commanding, Maj-Gen. Ahmed Mohammed, on May 14, 2014 in Maiduguri.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Okoh urged the government to consider the soldiers\u2019 defense and patriotic<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">service which they had rendered to the nation.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cMilitary Law is a very strict law; we want to make an appeal to the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nigerian Army to tamper justice with mercy and spare their lives.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe soldiers have invested their lives in the defense of the nation; the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">government should not only see their errors but should equally see the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">good they have done.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSo, it is left for President Goodluck Jonathan to consider that human<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">beings can make mistakes, and also consider to forgive them,\u201d\u00a0 he said.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Primate, however, noted that the war against insurgency had consumed<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">many people in the country, and cautioned that more should not be added to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the number.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A nine-member military tribunal presided over by Brig-Gen. Chukwuemeka<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Okonkwo convicted the soldiers.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eighteen soldiers were arraigned at the military court and 12 were<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">sentenced to death by firing squad, one was jailed with hard labour, while<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">five were set free.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Primate of Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Rev. 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