Colonel Nasiru Salami (retd), a civil war veteran, has expressed his deep dissatisfaction with what he described as the inadequate treatment of retired Nigerian Army personnel by military authorities.
“I am their father and they are seeing me now that my life is not to their expectation. They would want me to be higher than this, full of joy and other things that would make them to be happy. How would I now encourage them to join the army?
“I have two graduates now and I said to them: ‘Never you think of going to join the army. If you want to join, maybe the Navy or the Air Force. I’ve not been there but I’ve been seeing them and I’ve been hearing about them because they are treated better’.”