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The court was billed to hear an application for an order compelling the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Burutai; and the Judge Advocate of the Nigerian Army Court Martial, Colonel S.I. Musa, to produce the records of the proceedings of the Special Court Martial that recommended the applicant for sack before the court and an application seeking to stay the execution of the decision of the army panel.

Nigerian soldiers, hitherto revered, in my days of youth, became derided and hardly appreciated by the same people it serves at a minutely risk of their lives.  No one was ready to sympathize with them at moment of trials or even think positively of their salvation roles in nationhood.