According to several of the troops who talked with DAILYPULSE, General Abdullahi recently took the palliative rice that was supposed to be given to them.

Troops stationed at the Nigerian Army depot in Zaria, Kaduna State, have levied allegations of financial mismanagement and corruption against Major General Mohammed Aminu Abdullahi (N/10208), the commander of the military training school.

According to many troops who communicated with SaharaReporters, General Abdullahi recently took the palliative rice that was supposed to be given to them.

The army trains new soldiers out of the Kaduna facility.

Nigerian troops have received training there ever since it opened in 1924.

The rice, which came from the palliatives of the administration led by President Bola Tinubu, was intended to help the troops cope with the effects of the economic downturn.

The troops said that the Commandant refused to give them the palliative rice, despite the depot receiving it in three trucks along with other military formations and units around the nation.

One of the troops remarked, “Our depot commandant recently collected three trucks of rice palliative to share for us soldiers, but he diverted them.”

Another soldier bemoaned the inadequate food at the depot, saying, “It is bad for the recruits that the training institution is facing poor feeding.”

“During working hours, instructors—both officers and subordinate ranks—are fed quite poorly; there is no distinction in the food provided to them and that of convicts. Perhaps the federal government or army authorities ought to sent a team to investigate the issues we have been raising.

“Not a single commander or soldier at this army base has received palliative rice. They haven’t been issued a uniform either.

“I have nothing to add but the man is very corrupt and he believes in bringing Islamic clerics, Mallams, and Imams to his official quarters to pray for him so that Almighty Allah would cover all his atrocities but God can’t be mocked,” an instructor in the military institution said in an interview with SaharaReporters.

A peculiar sickness that some recruits at the depot died from, purportedly from food poisoning, was exclusively revealed by DAILYPULSE in February.

There has never been any information on the recruit death rate at the Army depot in Zaria. Due to an unusual illness brought on by food poisoning, we’ve lost up to 14 trainees in just two weeks, a military insider informed SaharaReporters.

More than 80 other recruits are currently in the hospital. It’s quite tragic; the army leader need to see the training area for himself.

Maj. Gen. Abdullahi did not answer when our reporter mentioned DAILYPULSE, despite our best efforts to reach him on his cell phone for a remark. All other attempts to contact him were unsuccessful.

A General was recently arrested by the Nigerian Army officials for allegedly selling military equipment to scrap yards and diverting palliative rice intended for troops.

The military police in Abuja reportedly invited the suspect, Brig.-Gen. M.A. Sadiq, who was Commander 3 Brigade, Kano, to the city where he was being held.