Borno mutiny: Ex-Senate President, Ameh Ebute begins legal proceedings to save soldiers from death

A former Senate President, Ameh Ebute has filed
an appeal against the judgment passed on the 12
soldiers by the Military Tribunal, which tried and
found them guilty of mutiny, and thus sentenced
them to death.
The respected legal practitioner on Wednesday
filed a motion for a stay of execution of the
condemned soldiers at the Appeal Court in Abuja.
Ameh said he made the move in accordance with
Sections 183 and 184 of the Armed forces Act cap
A of the Laws of the Federation, which gives the
condemned men up to 10 days to appeal against
their conviction.
The Idoma elder statesman, however, urged the
military to stop further action on the convicted
soldiers until the appeal is heard and determined
in accordance with the law of the land, especially
as the GOC, who they allegedly attacked few
months back was never killed.
The former Senate President expressed
dissatisfaction over the condition under which the
condemned men were being detained by the
military authorities in Lagos, saying it was equal
to execution.
He further called on the military authorities to
transfer the condemned men to regular detention
facility.
The lawyer pleaded that nothing should be done
to take their lives, as Nigeria was not in a jungle.
Ameh said, “The condition under which these men
are being kept amounts to execution since they
are kept in a permanently dark room bereft of the
basic facilities of life”, he told Vanguard in an
interview.