A depressed Nigerian Soldier, Kila Jima, fighting Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East has reportedly committed suicide.
The late soldier, a corporal in the Army’s 152 Battalion in Banki, was said to have suddenly cocked his rifle and shot himself in the head last weekend.
Kila was said to have shown signs of depression before he eventually took his life. His body has since been deposited at the military mortuary in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
This is not the first time a Nigerian soldier would be committing suicide. In March, Bello Useni, a soldier with the Nigerian Army School of Armour in Bauchi killed himself.
Also, in September 2020, a Lance Corporal attached to the Army’s 27 Task Force Brigade in Buni Gari, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe state, committed suicide at his duty post.
In July 2020, a soldier in the Army’s 202 battalion in Bama, Borno state, killed a lieutenant who did not give him pass to visit his family.
In 2019, a soldier hanged himself in Abuja, while in 2017, another committed suicide after killing his superior officer.
