A Nigerian military court on Wednesday ruled it will shoot dead 54 soldiers who refused to go and fight Islamist trouble group Boko Haram.
The military court sitting in the capital Abuja Wednesday ruled the 54 were guilty of the high crime of mutiny.
“The soldiers, who were found guilty of mutiny, were accused of refusing to help recapture three towns that had been seized by Boko Haram in August,” The convicted soldiers will face a firing squad, their lawyer admitted.

The troops have in recent years regularly complained that they are outgunned by Boko Haram, they are not paid in full and they are abandoned on the battlefield without enough ammunition or food, reports stated Wednesday.
The trial began mid-October after the officers allegedly disobeyed orders by their senior officers to join operations against Boko Haram in the northeastern state of Borno.
A two-count charge of criminal conspiracy to commit mutiny was, therefore, slammed on the soldiers. Four other soldiers were lucky, discharged and acquitted, having pleaded and found not guilty to the accusation.
The convicted soldiers were said to have committed mutiny against the authorities of the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army on Aug. 4, in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State.
The convicts were the second batch of mutinous soldiers condemned to death by military courts in Nigeria this year. Xinhua/ Additional Reporting