BREAKING: Buratai promises to pay outstanding allowances of soldiers

Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, says the two months’ allowances owed soldiers involved in Operation Lafiya Dole, would be paid this week.

In a statement issued on his behalf by to Sani Usman, army spokesman, Buratai said the release of funds by the ministry of defence would facilitate the payment.

He made the promise less than 24 hours after TheCable published the letter which an anonymous soldier wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari.

The soldier had among other things complained of poor welfare and alleged corruption in the army.

He said he and his colleagues borrow money from civilians to be able to feed.

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