The Nigerian Army violated its own rules and laws when it compulsorily retired some of its senior officers in 2016, a National Industrial Court in Abuja has been told.
The army had in June, 2016 announced the compulsory retirement of 38 officers on different ranks on the grounds of alleged professional misconduct during the 2015 general elections, as well as involvement in the $2.1 billion arms procurement scandal. The purge affected nine Major Generals, ten Brigadier-Generals, seven Colonels, eleven Lieutenant Colonels and one Major.
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