The Chief of Military Employees, Lt Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has stated the Nigerian Military has arrested the soldier who slammed the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for ordering the arrest of his colleague alongside three different motorcyclists for driving in opposition to visitors on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
Lagbaja stated the Military is displeased with the conduct of the soldier, saying it’s in opposition to the self-discipline of the pressure.
Whereas addressing journalists on Tuesday in Enugu on the conduct of the troopers, Lagbaja stated the stated troopers have been arrested and an investigation is ongoing on others who had acted in the identical method.
“The Military has investigated and the soldier has been apprehended and we’re investigating for each different comical that you’ve got seen on social media,” he stated.
The PUNCH stories {that a} soldier slammed Sanwo-Olu following the arrest of his colleague alongside three different motorcyclists for driving in opposition to visitors on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
The yet-to-be-identified soldier in a viral video defended his colleague and faulted Sanwo-Olu for calling a soldier ‘ineffective’ within the presence of ‘bastard civilians’.
He stated the state governor had no proper to arrest a soldier, particularly in entrance of his barracks, noting that troopers usually are not beneath the management of any state governor however their senior officers.
Reacting to the event, Lagbaja stated the soldier arrested for plying a technique doesn’t signify the Nigerian Military, saying that the motion contravenes the self-discipline of the pressure and the structure of the state.
He stated, “I need to say that the soldier that was apprehended by the governor of Lagos State whereas enjoying on a a technique, doesn’t signify the Nigerian Military as a result of, in each respect, it contravenes what we stand for which is self-discipline as an Military and the structure and the legal guidelines of Lagos state.”
He, nonetheless, famous that opposite to the claims that three officers of the pressure had come out to defend their colleague and faulted the state governor, solely one in all them was an officer of the pressure.
“And we frown at that as Military however what you alleged that troopers have gone to the social media casting aspersions on the particular person and the workplace of the governor of Lagos State, I’ll say it’s just one soldier that has completed that. The others usually are not personnel of the Nigerian Military.
“Now we have investigated the mode of dressing of a few of them, and you’ll know that they don’t seem to be personnel of the Nigerian Military.
“Considered one of them was sporting the badge the wrong way up and you’ll know that that’s not a personnel of the Nigerian Military. An officer can by no means do this. And from the utterances that these folks made, you’ll know the angle from which they’re speaking. They’re speaking about politics, not the Military.
“So, we are going to depart it like that for those that pertain to the military we’re investigating to be handled accordingly.”
Talking additional, Lagbaja stated the troops will likely be senstised on the disciplined and law-abiding to the structure of communities the place they’re posted to discharge their duties.
“Even this morning as I arrived in Enugu, the Chief of Administration, Military, despatched me a draft directive that he was sending all the way down to all formations and items of the Nigerian Military to additional sensitise our troops on the have to be disciplined and abide by the legal guidelines of each group the place they’re deployed.
“So, we’re severe about upholding legal guidelines, and guidelines and remaining disciplined and we are going to implement that on our personnel,” assured.
The PUNCH On-line stories that Sanwo-Olu ordered the arrest of a soldier and three different motorcyclists for driving in opposition to visitors on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
In a viral video, Sanwo-Olu was seen ordering his males to place one of many motorcyclists who claimed to be a soldier into the car, stating that he was going to lock him up.