HUMAN rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana has urged presidential pardon for all convicted members of the Armed Forces deployed to the North-East region to fight insurgents.In a letter sent to President Muhammadu Buhari and dated January 15, 2015, a copy of which was made available to The Guardian yesterday, Falana hinged the call pursuant to Section 175 of the Nigerian Constitution.According to Falana, in prosecuting the war on terror, the Goodluck Jonathan Administration deployed thousands of members of the armed forces to the North-East region and forced them to fight the well-armed insurgents with weapons, which were not serviceable.In the process, the country’s armed forces, he argued suffered humiliating defeat, which led to the killing of about 25,000 soldiers and civilians including children and the displacement of over 2, 000, 000 people.
