the Nigerian Army low in the fight against the violent Islamic sect,
Boko Haram, in North-East Nigeria.
Buhari, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, said there had
been series of complaints that soldiers collect bribes at check-point
and rape women during operations.
He spoke on the Hausa service of the Voice of America, monitored in
Kaduna on Wednesday.
He stressed the need for soldiers to return to basic military training
by maintaining standards during and after operations.
"Now there are accusations that they collect bribe at checkpoints,
that they rape women during operations as was the case in Borno. That
was not known before. Now, if you kill one of their own, they round up
and wipe out the community like what happened at Baga," he said.
The former military dictator recalled that in the days of the late
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, the late president ensured peace by
conveying leaders of the Niger Delta militants to Abuja to talk and
ensure peace in the region.
"But everybody knows that the Boko Haram leader was arrested and
killed. We all know that in times of crisis, the police should do
their work and it is only when such crisis escalates that the military
comes in and they don't round up the crisis community and kill
everybody," he said.
However, the General Officer Commanding, 1 Division of the Nigerian
Army, Kaduna, Maj-Gen. Garba Wahab, has said that the military and
other security agencies need support and not condemnation in the fight
against insurgency in Nigeria.
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