126 sacked soldiers vs Nigerian Army in court. see details...

126 sacked Nigerian soldiers have the National Industrial Court
in Abuja challenging their dismissal by the Nigerian Army,
Tribune has reported.

                                           Some members of the Nigeria Army

The soldiers, in a suit No. NICN/ABJ/92/2015, through their
lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, said the soldiers were denied “inviolable
opportunity to be heard and make representation in defence and to
state their respective cases.”
The soldiers were among the 255 soldiers sacked on January 13
and 14, 2015, by the Nigerian Army, over an alleged
“disobedience to standing order and failure to perform military
duties.”
They comprise of four warrant officers ( Akanny Welcome,
Davou Nta, Ibrahim Usman and Adediran Ogunmuyiwa) and
others in the ranks of sergeants, corporal, lance corporal, and
private were part of the joint force, code-named “OP Zaman
Lafia,” who were directed to combat the outlawed Boko Haram
sect in the North-East region of Nigeria.
The army had claimed the plaintiffs refused to obey their
commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel A. A Egbejule, during a
counter-attack by Boko Haram in Bazza.
It further said the act of the plaintiffs led to the recapture of the
territory by the terrorists and subsequently were  dismissed
orally at their station by Lieutenant-Colonel M.J Gambo on
January 13, 2015 and by the Garrison Commander, General B.O
Akinroluoyo, the following day.
Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed new service
chiefs after sacking the military service chiefs he inherited from
the Goodluck Jonathan administration on Monday, July 13,