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The Nigerian Army has reportedly arrested and detained a soldier identified as Lance Corporal Rotimi Olamilekan, after he posted a video on social media calling on governors, senators, House of Reps members and other politicians to allow their children to enlist in the military and join the fight against banditry and terrorists across the country.
In the video which quickly went viral on Tuesday, the soldier said he is currently serving with the 81 Division Task Force Battalion in Maiduguri, Borno State, where he has been for four years without a promotion or additional benefits, and gave out his service number 18NA/77/1009 LCPL, indicating that the trauma of battling with the terrorists in all those years may have taken a toll on him.
In the video, the soldier is heard saying:
“The way I dey lose my colleagues, it is getting to things wey be say e dey comot tears for my eye day by day.
“In this country, we have 36 governors, we have like 109 senators, even ministers, we have like almost 60.
“We have House of Representatives, chairmen of local governments – 774. Let each one of them bring their son to join the Nigerian Army (We have members of the House of Representatives, and 774 local government chairmen. Let each of them send their own son to join the Nigerian Army.”
According to reports, the video was seen as an affront to authorities which prompted the arrest of Olamilekan who was picked up during an operation after a signal was reportedly received directing that he be brought to Army Headquarters in Abuja.
He was reportedly apprehended at his location by fellow officers and briefly detained in a cell in Maiduguri before being transferred to Abuja and is being held incommunicado but had managed to get some sympathetic colleagues to notify his family that he had been taken to Abuja.
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