The Chief of Military Workers, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has condemned the viral verbal assault on the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, by people claiming to be officers of the Nigerian Military for arresting a soldier for driving in opposition to site visitors.
Talking on the opening of the Dragon Officers Mess in Abakpa Cantonment, Enugu State, on Tuesday, Lagbaja famous that solely a kind of claiming to be troopers in viral movies on social media was a personnel of the Nigerian Military.
The COAS mentioned, “The soldier that was apprehended whereas plying on a one-way doesn’t symbolize the Nigerian Military as a result of in each respect it contravenes what we stand for which is self-discipline as a military, and it contravenes the structure and the legal guidelines of Lagos and so we frown at that as the military.
“However for what you alleged that troopers have gone to social media casting aspersion on the individual and the workplace of the Governor of Lagos State, I’ll say it is just one soldier that has achieved that.
“The military has investigated and that soldier has been apprehended, and we’re investigating. For each different comical act that you’ve got seen on social media, they aren’t personnel of the Nigerian Military.
“From the mode of dressing of a few of them, you’ll know that they aren’t personnel of the Nigerian Military. Certainly one of them was carrying the cap 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.
“From the utterances that these folks made, you’ll know the angle they had been speaking from. They had been speaking politics not military.
“For those that pertain to the military, we’re investigating, and it is going to be handled accordingly. We’re severe about upholding legal guidelines and guidelines, and we’ll implement that on our personnel.”
Recall Tribune On-line stories that Governor Sanwo-Olu, final Tuesday, ordered the arrest of some motorcyclists, together with a lance corporal, for driving within the unsuitable course alongside the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
Following this, some yet-to-be-identified er troopers slammed the Lagos State Governor for ordering the arrest of their colleague, and faulted him for calling the soldier “ineffective” within the presence of others.