Soldiers now shoot themselves to avoid deployment to Boko haram areas

To avoid being deployed to the Boko Haram infested zones in the North, some soldiers and officers are inventing pranks which involves faking strange ailments and shooting themselves.

A military source who made the revelation to Tribune newspaper, disclosed that seven soldiers opened fire on different parts of their bodies and later claimed that Boko Haram terrorists shot them, to avoid deployment.

The act was carefully masterminded by the troops, so as to look as if the Boko Haram, terrorists actually attacked them.
However, when medical examination was carried out on them, it was discovered that the shots were self-inflicted.