Ex-soldiers have threatened to interrupt the 2012 elections if money owed is not paid with 90 days.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe shall definitely interrupt the 2012 elections if government refuse to pay our money within the 90 days ultimatum,\u201d ex- soldiers said.<\/p>\n
They made the disclosure after barricading the office of the Vice President holding placards and peacefully demanding for payment of their benefits as former serving military personnel.<\/p>\n
\u201cPay us our money. It is in the Human RightsCommission report that our money should be paid without any undue delay,\u201d the protesting ex-soldiers demanded.<\/p>\n
SLA18169853 Corporal Alhaji Kamara one time attached to the 15th<\/sup> Battalion, Lungi, revealed he has served the army for a good 18 years with a clean sheet.<\/p>\n He said he deserves the benefit and it must be paid him. \u201cWe will not rest and government will also not rest if they did not pay us our money,\u201d Cpl Kamara fumed.<\/p>\n \u201cIn November of 2008, we respectfully made a complaint to the Ombudsman\u2019s office and the Human Rights Commission respectively.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOur complaint was looked into and it was seen as completely genuine.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Commission therefore ordered government to pay us our benefits, but up until now it is yet to be paid though.\u201d<\/p>\n The retired Army Cpl Kamara lay blame on the police for always pursuing them out of the Vice President\u2019s office when in fact they had gone there to peacefully say their feelings to the powers that be.<\/p>\n \u201cWe denounce the arrest of our colleagues and therefore asked that they are unconditionally released by the police at the Criminal Investigations Department,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Ex-soldiers have threatened to interrupt the 2012 elections if money owed is not paid with 90 days. \u201cWe shall definitely interrupt the 2012 elections if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673,1],"tags":[8619,998],"class_list":["post-32469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-ex-soldiers","tag-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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