Nigeria: Jaji Bombings - JNI Faults Removal of Military Officers

5 December 2012

The umbrella Muslim organisation in the North, the Jama'atu Nasril Islam (JNI) yesterday criticised the military authorities for removing the Commandant of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, Kaduna State, Air Vice Marshal Abdullahi Kure, and the Corps Commander, Infantry, Jaji, Major Gen. Muhammad D. Isa, over the recent twin-bomb blasts that rocked the military cantonment.

The group in a statement signed by its Secretary General, Dr. Khalid Abubakar Aliyu, in Kaduna, wondered why Kure and Isa, who are both Muslims, would be removed and replaced with non-Muslims before proper investigations into the matter were conducted.

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