“Some of us had finished all our bullets and we didn’t have spare ones, so that is why we left Monguno,” one of the soldiers revealed.
He added: “On getting to headquarters [Maimalari barracks] they refused to clear us. Please how can we fight when we are not empowered?”
The soldiers categorically stated that they went to Maimalari Barracks in Maiduguri to report themselves, but they were denied entry into the barracks.
Another soldier who spoke to Sahara Reporters said it was really unfortunate that they were being ignored as if they deliberately decided to lose their barracks to Boko Haram fighters.
“Some of our regular soldiers were killed in the course of defending
this nation,” he said. Now we are roaming the streets of Maiduguri as if
it [was] our fault. But our big officers refused to give us weapons to
fight Boko Haram,” he added.
