Nigeria: Jaji Bombings - Army Says Redeployment of Commandants Not Religious

7 December 2012

The Nigerian Army has maintained that the redeployment of the former 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 attack on a church in the cantonment was not motivated by ethno-religious considerations.

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, stated this Thursday at a press conference in Abuja in response to recent accusations by some sections of the country that the replacement of two commanding officers was based on religion.

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