Non-payment of soldiers salaries

Nigerian soldiers
Up to 22,000 soldiers fighting the Boko
Haram in the north-east of reportedly didn’t
receive their full salaries for several months.
Sahara Reporters spoke with some some
soldiers, who asked not to be named.
They said that many of servicemen have not
received their allowances from the past three
months. Nigerian troops are subjected to this
development despite their efforts fighting
Boko Haram.
The non-payment of their salaries has made
life very difficult for many soldiers. One of
the soldiers said that he was forced to
borrow a friend’s cell phone to call his family
because non-payment of his salary that he
couldn’t purchase or recharge it in Maiduguri,
the Borno state capital and headquarters of
Operation Lafiya Dole.
These soldiers said that they did not want to
report their superior servicemen but they had
little choice now. They addressed to
President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate
their problem.

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