The Nigerian Army Council has quashed the conviction of Brig.-Gen. Enitan Ransome-Kuti by a Special Court Martial and ordered his release from close custody.
Ransome-Kuti was arrested in January 2015 and tried by a special court martial for cowardice, while serving as Commander of a Joint Multinational Task Force in Baga.
A statement by Col. Aliyu Yusuf, Spokesman of the Army Headquarters Garrison, said the council confirmed the decision of the court martial but decided to review the punishment.
Yusuf said the council commuted his dismissal from the Nigerian Army to demotion from the rank of a Brigadier-General to the rank of Colonel.
He said the decision on the senior officer’s fate was taken at the last meeting of the Nigerian Army Council.
He said the Army Council quashed his conviction and award of six months imprisonment by the court martial to not guilty, discharged and acquitted.
Yusuf added that the senior officer had been released from close custody, following the decision of the council. (NAN)
About time. It is an irony that the army didn’t deem it fit to move away from seeking a fall guy for its own error of standardised process of logistics and war strategy. This individual has been scape-goated, defamed and dehumanised for over 12 months; not to mention the trauma and psychological affect on his family while all along the truth of the matter was obvious. Why is it that too many things went so wrong with the immediate past administration? And such inadequacies and complacencies continue to unravel. This Nigeria!!!!!