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*Says viral video showing troops drinking dirty, muddy water confirms its position that troops are poorly treated
By Joseph Erunke, ABUJA
THE viral video of some frontline troops seen drinking dirty muddy water has attracted condemnation from a civil society group which accused the military authorities of abandoning troops to their fate in spite of the huge budget allocated to defence by President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government in the past seven years.
The group operating under the aegis of the Civil Society Coalition for National Peace and Security, CSCNPS, said the sad development was a confirmation of its earlier position that the Nigerian military personnel, especially troops, were operating under a debilitating condition.
The group noted that besides water, troops were not being properly fed to pursue their assigned task ahead of them just as it said their welfare was being denied, thus contributing to their poor morale in prosecuting the war waged…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
