Tears As Nigerian Soldier Tortured To Death Is Buried

• The soldier, Benjamin Collins was tortured to death by his senior colleagues at the Mogadishu Barracks, Abuja, on February 23, 2017.
• He was buried today, Wednesday, September 16, 2020.
• The culprits have been sentenced to ten years imprisonment each.

The remains of Lance Corporal Benjamin Collins has been laid to rest by the Nigerian Army on Wednesday, September 16, 2020.

Benjamin Collins who hailed from Rivers State was tortured to death by three senior officers at the Mogadishu Barracks, Abuja, on February 23, 2017.

He died after the assault and his corpse was deposited in Asokoro General Hospital morgue.

He was buried with full military honours at the Guards Brigade cemetery along Kubwa Expressway by soldiers from the Army Headquarters Garrison Battalion.

The funeral was attended by his 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.

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

A general court martial had in February sentenced Majors Akeem Oseni and Ogbemudia Osawe, and Second Lieutenant Nuhu Dogary to 10 years’ imprisonment for torturing Collins to death.

The convicts were said to have moved Collins from a guardroom at Mogadishu Barracks to a bush near the Ihejirika Quarters along the Abuja-Nyanya Expressway, where he was assaulted while in handcuffs and leg chains.