THE NIGERIAN ARMY HAS FAULTED CLAIMS BY THE PRELATE, METHODIST CHURCH NIGERIA, SAMUEL KANU UCHE, ALLEGING THE COMPLICITY OF ITS TROOPS IN HIS RECENT KIDNAP INCIDENT IN ABIA STATE, WHERE THE CHURCH PAID A WHOOPING N100 MILLION TO REGAIN HIS FREEDOM.

THE ARMY HAS ALSO FAULTED CLAIMS BY THE PRELATE THAT SOLDIERS OF FULANI EXTRACTION ALLEGEDLY CARRIED OUT THE ACT, SAYING TROOPS DEPLOYMENT IN THE ARMY IS NOT DONE WITH CONSIDERATIONS TO ETHNIC AFFILIATION.

DIRECTOR, ARMY PUBLIC RELATIONS, BRIGADIER GENERAL ONYEMA NWACHUKWU, WHO MADE THE CLARIFICATION IN A STATEMENT, YESTERDAY, SAID THAT GIVEN THE PROFESSIONAL DISPOSITION AND ZERO TOLERANCE FOR ANY MISCONDUCT IN THE NIGERIAN ARMY, THE SERVICE WOULD TAKE THE WEIGHTY ALLEGATION SERIOUSLY AND APPROACH THE PRELATE AND THE METHODIST CHURCH TO UNRAVEL THE BASIS FOR THE ALLEGATION.

HE SAID WHILE THE ARMY SYMPATHISED WITH THE PRELATE AND OTHER KIDNAPPED MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH AND SHARED IN THEIR PAINS, THE INSINUATION THAT TROOPS WERE COMPLICIT IN THE KIDNAP INCIDENT WAS NOT ENTIRELY PREMISED ON ANY FINDINGS OF INVESTIGATIONS AND, THEREFORE, COULD NOT BE SWALLOWED HOOK LINE AND SINKER.