by Chidi Okoye
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, has implored the Nigerian military top brass to re-consider the death sentence passed on the 54 soldiers for misconduct in the ongoing fight against insurgency in the country.
Fashola made the appeal at the Interdenominational Service to mark year 2015 Armed Force Remembrance Day, held at The Chapel of Christ The Light, Alausa, Ikeja.
The governor was represented by the Commissioner for Home Affairs and Culture, Oyinlomo Danmole, who pleaded that the military authorities and the Federal Government should review the death sentence and commute it to jail terms.
He said the officers and men involved are now sober and therefore deserved to be forgiven with the reduction in the punishment pronounced.
Fashola noted that the call for leniency is not to justify their actions but to urge the government to reduce the gravity of the punishment and not make it greater than their offence.
The governor also admonished Nigerians to continue to support the families of soldiers and those with life-time injuries in the service of the nation.
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