Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEIThe 4 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Benin, has set up a Regimental Board of Enquiry into circumstances that allegedly led a soldier to kill a man for refusing to bribe him at a checkpoint.
A statement on Saturday in Benin by Capt. Mohammed Maidawa, Assistant Director, Army Public Relations and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the brigade’s attention had been drawn to the incident.
Maidawa said the attention of the Headquarters of the Brigade was drawn to the incident through an online publication alleging that the soldier killed a truck driver who refused to bribe him at a checkpoint.
He said the incidence allegedly occurred at a checkpoint manned by troops of 195 Battalion on Agbor Road.
He said it was alleged that the soldier killed the driver over the deceased’s refusal to give bribe at a checkpoint.
He, however, said it was important to put the records straight and that led to the board of enquiry.
4 Brigade Nigerian Army sets up enquiry over checkpoint killing by personnel
