Military authorities are reportedly investigating five soldiers, who allegedly escaped with billions of Naira belonging to an army general on transit to Abuja.
Premium Times reports that the soldiers identified as Gabriel Oluwaniyi, a corporal; Mohammed Aminu, a corporal; Commander Haruna, a lance corporal; Oluji Joshua, a lance corporal; and Hayatudeen Abubakar, a lance corporal, were escorting a convoy from Sokoto to Jaji withe the huge cash, said to be owned by Major General Hakeem Oladapo Otiki.
The paper said Otiki was in the convoy. But on getting to Jaji, where an airlift was expected, the men decided to disappear with the cash.
“They also removed all their uniforms and abandoned their rifles in the vehicles at the airstrip in Jaji,” the paper said quoting an anonymous military source.
However, the report did not state the reaction of Otiki to the thieving soldiers, since the brazen theft happened in his presence.
