The military has released the record of proceedings to enable counsels to the 27 convicted soldiers appeal the seven years imprisonment imposed on them by the army authorities.
This was disclosed by one of the counsels to the convicted soldiers, Mr. Peters Ike Adonu, while speaking with newsmen in Ibadan weekend.
A court martial in Akure had found the soldiers guilty of treason for protesting over their unpaid allowances during their peace keeping mission in Liberia which they claimed were not paid to them by the army authorities.
They were sentenced to life imprisonment while some other were either demoted or compulsorily retired by the army. After closer examination, the army authorities later commuted their sentence to 7 years. But dissatisfied, the 27 soldiers through their counsels, Mr. Femi Falana and Adonu Peters appealed the sentence.
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