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A special military court in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Tuesday dismissed a Flight Lieutenant, Martins Enwerem, for raping a 14-year-old internally displaced person.
The soldier raped the girl, Zara Ali, while she and her friends were out searching for firewood at the outskirts of Maiduguri.
Due to harsh conditions at the camps, most of the displaced persons fend for themselves especially in the area of cooking meals.
The victim was on an errand to help her family prepare the day’s meal when the soldier raped her.
The officer was also demoted to the rank of flight officer and will have to serve a jail term as soon as a superior military authority approves his sentence.
According to the ruling of the president of the court, Yakubu Auta, a major-general, Mr Enwerem, was found guilty in all the three count charges brought against him.
The counts are “defiling, assault and disobedience of standing order.”
“This special court marshal at this moment sentence(s) you, Flight Lieutenant M.I Enwerem NAF 5771 as follows; Count One; dismissed from the armed forces, reduction in rank from Flight Lieutenant to Flight Officer; three years loss of seniority on the new rank…”