General Christopher Musa, Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, has spoken about how the military justice system should work. He said military justice is supposed to be quick and effective so that discipline is maintained.
In a video shared by ChannelsTelevision, General Musa said during an ECOMOG peacekeeping mission, a military officer who wrongly shot someone was immediately tried, punished, and executed. He said this showed how fast and serious the military justice system used to be.
General Musa said the reason for this fast justice process was to keep order among soldiers. He also said that today, human rights laws have slowed down the justice process in the military and some people are now doing things they would not have dared to do in the past.
In General Musa’s words: “Remember In ECOMOG an officer shot somebody wrongly, he was tried, tied and shot. Question finished. Military justice system is supposed to be fast and efficient, if you delay it affects so many things. With this human rights thing and all so that is why there are a lot of things people are doing now that they would not have done if the laws were actually the way it is supposed to be. So those are things we need to look at”
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