RUMBLE IN THE MILITARY AS RANK AND FILE SOLDIERS CALL FOR HALT OF ALLEGED HOUSING SCAM

 

There appears to be rumble in the military as rank and file soldiers in the Nigerian Army wrote an Open Letter to President Muhammadu Buhari to demand that the Nigerian Army Housing Scheme , which they alleged to be fraudulent be stopped immediately. 

The excerpts of the  Open Letter , which was obtained by THE SQUIB read as follows:

05NA/57/2084 SGT YUSUF SHETIMA

04NA/55/0925 CPL JAMES IBOK

09NA/62/5578 LCPL DANLADI IBRAHIM

11NA/66/10622 LCPL AFOLABI SHOWUMI

13NA/70/11034 PTE LUCKY DOLPH

13TH MAY,2021.

THE PRESIDENT,

COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES,

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

Dear Sir, 

REJECTION OF THE PROPOSED NIGERIAN ARMY WELFARE HOUSING SCHEME (NAWHS).

1. On behalf of the entire Non Commissioned Officers (NCO), and the Senior Non commissioned Officers (SNCO), we write to reject the proposed plan of the Nigerian Army to further increase their tempo in a way of continuous swindling and to put us and our family into persistent suffering of hunger and starvation. Putting into consideration, the high rate of inflation in Nigeria market today, we the NCO and the SNCO are finding it difficult to feed our family and as well pay our children school fees from our meager salary. Yet, the Nigerian Army have devised a means of taking or collecting it back from us the Scarce Skill Allowance (SSA) under the guise of a useless, fraudulent and so called Nigerian Army Welfare Housing Scheme (NAWHS).

2. It is pertinent to note that the Army cannot exist or stand in the absent of the NCO and the SNCO, but the Army can stand or exist and function effectively without the commissioned Officers. This is to say that, the SNCO and the NCO are the pillars or the Nigerian Army and without them the NA cannot exist and yet, there suffer the most. 

3. The NCO and the SNCO are not well paid and yet the Army wants to deduct a whopping sum of #15,410.30k, #16,703.92k, #17,103.92k, #18,868.97k, #21,516.27k, #26,732.74k,  #30,000.00k and 49,086.49k on monthly basis  and according to the rank respectively. After this deduction, there still want us to feed and also buy our military uniforms from the remaining change. The officers of the NA are happy seeing us the NCO and the SNCO suffering all the days of our life, there can never and will never come up with a good plan that will ever benefit the other ranks instead, they prefer to cheat without regards to our suffering.

4. We are using this medium to call on the Federal Government, the house of representatives, the Senate and all other stakeholders to come to our aid and stop the Army under the leadership of Lt Gen. IBRAHIM Attahiru from the proposed fraudulent plan. And if there must continue, it must not be compulsory.                                                                                                                                                            Thanks.