By TRAVERTZ MABONE
FOUR soldiers from Murray Barracks ran rampage at Nonu Street nearby the Taurama shopping centre on Saturday causing serious bodily harm to innocent civilians and destruction of property.
Four people were left seriously wounded during the melee including a year 11 Gordon Secondary School student after the four soldiers wielding daggers, a machete, a pinch bar, a bolt cutter and iron rods terrorised the neighbourhood , while under the influence of alcohol.
One victim, Martin Kaupa said the whole saga sprouted from a mistaken identity from the day before, following a hold up at Murray Barracks.
He claimed the soldiers took to investigate the matter themselves and questioned some of the suspects who then described to them that one of them was “kela” (bald).
He claimed the soldiers mistook the description for a name and proceeded to seek a person they knew by the name of Kela instead for looking for a bald person.
Mr Kaupa proceeded to explain that on Saturday, between 5.30pm and 6pm the soldiers advanced to Nonu St where they beat up innocent civilians and broke into a trade store and damaged K2000 worth of store goods and took K6400 in cash.
They also smashed a rear glass of a vehicle broke into a home and destroyed most of the house-hold items.
Damages have accumulated to K24, 000.
Those civilians that were badly injured were Martin Kaupa, Chris Bomai, Monica Nul and Kaupa Kee (yr 11 student).
The matter was taken to the police and was later referred to the military police on Monday.
The victims however identified the assailants and named Pvt Eddie, Pvt James, lance corporal Tina and lance corporal Jill as those responsible for the damages.
Investigating Sgt Philip Dongo from the military police said the report that was brought before the military police and is scheduled to be presented to the commanding officer later yesterday.
It is likely that the four will face a tribunal.
The commanding officer will be tabling the report to the relevant military staff to deliberate upon and give recommendations of the outcome.
The four soldiers are believed to be new recruits. Their military career now hangs in the balance, given their probationary period of six months or two years is still in play.
The matter could be referred to the police and treated as a civil matter.
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