The Nigerian army is currently enmeshed in a controversy as a petition claims that about $43M was pocketed by top generals according to SaharaReporters.
A powerful but anonymous petition written by concerned Nigerian soldiers claims that the Nigerian Army owes its men and women who have served in various United Nations peacekeeping operations over $43 million.
The document also carpets the United Nations, which it alleges may have collaborated with cheating Nigerian army chiefs to divert the allowances of the peacekeepers into their own pockets.
“It is on record and verifiable that over 3,950 troops who participated in Peace Support Operations in Liberia and Sudan between 2013 to 2014 are still been [owed] various months of allowances amounting to over $43.23m US Dollars which is equivalent to N6,919,168,000:00 Billion Nigerian Naira to date,” the petition said.