(Video) Nigerian Army kicks after female soldier accused senior officers of life threat, salary seizure due to tuned down s£xual advances
The Nigerian Army has vowed to carry out an investigation after a female soldier serving in Lagos State, claimed some senior officers were after her life and oppressing her for rejecting their s£xual advances.
In a video that has gone viral, the female soldier who did not give her name, lamented how the senior Army officers who she identified as Col. IB Abdulkareem, Col. GS Ogor and Brig. Gen. IB Solebo have been oppressing her since she was posted to Cantonment Medical Centre, Ojo, Lagos in 2022, for refusing their sexual advances.
According to her, she has been locked up several times for no reason, ejected from her apartment, locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a month without any medication with a claim that she has mental illness and her account frozen since February 2023 without salary for no reason.
She further alleged that Col. Abdulkareem had made some attempts to s£xually assault her but when he was found out, he claimed that she had mental illness, adding that she had made several efforts including writing a petition and getting some senior and junior officers to intervene but to no avail.
The army in a release by Major-General Onyema Nwachukwu, the Director Army Public Relations, on Friday said the female soldier had yet to inform relevant bodies and institutions about her predicament before releasing a video. Via its X handle today. the Nigerian Army asked the public to allow investigations into the allegations and refrain from making hasty judgments.
