No fewer than 2, 140 security personnel have lost their lives under the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), between June 2015 and January 2023.
indicate that the deceased agents included personnel of the military, Nigeria Police Force, Department of State Services, Nigeria Customs Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps personnel.
The number of security personnel who died in active service is believed to be higher than the data obtained by our correspondents from the Nigeria Security Tracker, media reports and other sources.A breakdown showed that 48 security operatives were killed between June and December 2015; 230 killed in 2016; 164 in 2017; 268 in 2018; 357 in 2019; 609 in 2020; 107 in 2021; 342 in 2022 and 15 in 2023.
At least 30 Nigerian soldiers were said to have been killed during combat with Boko Haram terrorists who overran a military base in Borno State, on September 1, 2018. In July last year, gunmen believed to be bandits killed at least 43 people, including 30 soldiers and seven mobile police personnel in an attack on a mining site in the Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.
She said the insurance benefits due to the family had not been paid, adding that she had to work as a cleaner to cater for her three children.Ibrahim stated, “Life has not been easy, but I still thank God. I do not want to start talking about the pain I have gone through since my husband died. Ibrahim explained that she was paid N800,000 after her husband died but her in-laws, she said, collected N300,000 from the gratuity.
She said her husband’s insurance benefit had not been paid, adding that the promised scholarship was also not fulfilled. He said, “I will ascribe the number of deaths to ill-training of our personnel, the deployment strategy and the technological deployment for our operations. “So when you look at the welfare of veterans, after he leaves service, the template the government is using to take care of him has expired. It has been overtaken by events.
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