Soldier tortured to death by 3 senior colleagues buried

The remains of Lance Corporal Benjamin Collins, a soldier tortured to death by three senior colleagues, have been buried.

He was tortured to death at the Mogadishu Barracks in Abuja in 2017.

The Herald gathered that the late soldier was interred with full military honours at the Guards Brigade cemetery along Kubwa Expressway by soldiers from the Army Headquarters Garrison Battalion on Wednesday.

Collins’s senior colleagues that tortured him to death were identified as Majors Akeem Oseni and Ogbemudia Osawe, and 2nd Lieutenant Nuhu Dogary.

They were all sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a general court martial for the crime of manslaughter.

The GMC which heard the case comprised the President, Maj. Gen. G. Umelo who is now GOC 81 division, ; Brig. Gen. S. Aliyu; Brig. Gen, A. Edet; Brig. N. Mohammed; and Cols. K. Ndamadu, T. Agbor, and I. Tanko.

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The funeral was attended by Collins’ mother, Mrs Kate Dioma; uncle, Justice Daniel Isiagor of the Federal High Court; lawyer, Dr Johnson Oyewole; and representatives of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai.

At the brief ceremony, the national flag was presented to the deceased’s mother by Lt. Col. S. Shuaibu on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari.