Defence minister pledges action on alleged military abuses after meeting with legal practitioner

Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, General Christopher Gwabin Musa (rtd), has pledged to code mounting allegations of quality rights abuses by subject unit pursuing a high-level gathering with Kano based ineligible practitioner, Barrister Hamza Nuhu Dantani.

Dantani disclosed this connected his authoritative Facebook leafage connected Wednesday, explaining that the engagement was prompted by a surge successful nationalist complaints, including claims of unlawful killings, arbitrary arrests, prolonged detention without trial, and different violations of civilian liberties allegedly involving unit of the Nigerian equipped forces.

“I presented respective cases of interest straight to the Minister, peculiarly incidents wherever civilians were reportedly killed oregon detained without owed process,” Dantani said.

Among the cases highlighted was the alleged sidesplitting of Abdulrahman Mustapha, who was reportedly arrested by soldiers connected March 22, 2026, and aboriginal changeable dormant nether unclear circumstances. According to Dantani, authorities person yet to instrumentality decisive enactment beyond stating that an probe is ongoing.

Another incidental cited progressive the decease of a 14-year-old miss successful Maiduguri connected April 4, 2026, aft she was struck by a stray slug portion wrong her home. While the subject reportedly denied respo...