By Ndahi Marama

MAIDUGURI—Barely  24 hours after a demonstration of soldiers’ wives at the Maimalari Barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State, hundreds of their counterparts at the 21 Armoured Brigade in  Giwa Barracks, yesterday, staged a peaceful demonstration at the entrance of the Barracks, to protest the purported deployment of  their husbands to war torn zone in Bama and Gwoza Local Government Areas of Borno State.

The gates leading to the barracks were locked, as the women in their hundreds protested at the entrance of the gate, with many of them shouting “we won’t allow our husbands to be killed, as  the military authorities refused to equip them with sophisticated weapons that can match the ones of Boko Haram.”

One of the women, who spoke to our correspondent, but pleaded for anonymity, said that those whom their bread winners were killed in the course of defending their fatherland were suffering, as government had not done anything for them to alleviate their sufferings.