Major Charles Heyman said the news affecting the 5th Divisionheadquarters in Copthorne, Shrewsbury, was unveiled at a strategic defence review briefing.
"There is no Nigerian soldier that goes out on the streets to just kill innocent Nigerians, " Col Sani Kukasheka Usman told the BBC at the First Divisionheadquarters in Kaduna.
In addition, when we were not in front of the front line intercepting the communications, we were either at the battalion headquarters or the division tactical headquarters, which are major targets for any enemy artillery fire.