An Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Court which sat in Abuja on Thursday June 25, ordered the Nigerian government to pay arrears of salaries and other entitlements to 244 soldiers dismissed from the Nigerian Army in 2016.
The soldiers who dragged the Nigerian government to court after being accused of abandoning the Boko Haram insurgency struggle and fleeing for allegedly inadequate arms and ammunition demanded their fundamental human rights, including the right to their salaries and entitlements, to be enforced.
Premium Times announced that Justice Keikura Bangura, who denied the appeal of the soldiers to be reinstated into the army, upheld their argument that their sack violated their human rights , including the right to work and fair hearing.
The ECOWAS trial, which rejected the Nigerian Army’s decision to discharge the soldiers on 15 May 2019, directed the Nigerian government to pay all arrears of the affected soldiers’ monthly allowances and salaries and other entitlements up to January 2016.
