Soldier Locked Up For Exposing Colleague’s Link With Boko Haram Collapses After Being Denied Medical Attention By Nigerian Army

Pte Mohammed Idris of the Nigerian Army has collapsed at a military detention facility called Annex along Pompomari in Maiduguri, Borno State due to health complications.

Idris, with military number 19NA/78/3048, is a medical personnel member attached to the 7 Division military hospital in Maiduguri, Borno state.

He was said to have exposed his colleague, one Corporal Agbo, for having links with terrorist group, Boko Haram. 

While Agbo, a military police corporal was assigned to stay with an arrested Boko Haram member in the hospital facility, he collected Idris’ phone and gave it to the terrorist to contact his family and other terrorists.

However, one of the contacts the terrorist reached out to called back through Idris’ number days after to talk to him. 

The soldier immediately raised an alarm about the call to the military authorities and narrated how Agbo deceived him to use his phone. 

“The detained soldier was the medical personnel member on duty on that very day, so the corporal, a military police personnel member, was attached to a Boko Haram member in the hospital. He was to be by his side on his hospital bed. 

“Both Idris and Agbo are regulars of the same intake, so they were known to each other.

“On that fateful day, Agbo, the MP went to meet Idris and asked for his phone, saying that he had an emergency call to make. That one didn’t hesitate to give him his handset, not knowing Agbo had another plan. He gave the phone to the Boko Haram terrorist he was assigned to be with at the hospital to call other (Boko Haram) members and family.”