The Soldier Who Verbally Assaulted Gov. Sanwo-Olu was Arrested – COAS
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja has convicted a viral verbal assault on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu by persons claiming to be soldiers, saying the offender has been detained.
In the viral videos, some persons claiming to be officers of the Nigerian Army had verbally attacked the governor for ordering the arrest of someone who claimed to be a soldier who drove against traffic.
But days later, the COAS said only one of those behind the videos was a soldier and had been arrested.
“The soldier that was apprehended while plying on a one-way does not represent the Nigerian Army. In every respect, it breaches what we stand for which is discipline as an army, and it contravenes the constitution and the laws of Lagos and so we frown at that as the army,” he said on Tuesday during the inaugural of the Dragon Officers Mess in Abakpa Cantonment, Enugu State.
“But for what you alleged that soldiers have gone to social media forming slander on the person and the office of the Governor of Lagos State, I will say it is only one soldier that has done that.
“The army has investigated, and that soldier has been detained, and we are investigating. For every other side-splitting act that you have seen on social media, they are not members of the Nigerian Army. We have investigated that.
“From the outfit of some of them, you will know that they are not personnel of the Nigerian Army. One of them was wearing the cap badge upside down, and you will know that that is not personnel of the Nigerian Army. An officer can never do that.
“From the utterances that these people made, you will know the viewpoint from which they were talking. They were talking politics, not the army. “For the ones that pertain to the army, we are investigating, and it will be treated accordingly.”
