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Nigerian Army Apprehends Soldiers That Molested Physically Challenged Person

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The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a video clip in which two soldiers were seen maltreating a physically challenged person for allegedly wearing a camouflage shirt.

 

Army spokesman SK Usman said “we wish to inform the public that the incident took place on Tuesday 7th February 2017, at Onitsha, Anambra State.”

 

Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka USman who is the Director Nigeria Army Public Relation added “in line with our zero tolerance for acts of indiscipline and unprofessional conducts especially in relation to violation of human rights, we wish to further state that the soldiers involved have since been identified and apprehended.”

 

“They have also been charged for assault by their Commanding Officer,” SK Usman.

 

Similarly, troops have been warned to desist from such acts that infringe on human rights and cast serious aspersions on the good image of the Nigerian Army.

 

The public should please regard this ugly incident as an isolated case which is not true reflection of the Nigerian Army.

 

See Video of the barbaric act below:

 

Group Wants Disabled Included In Buhari’s Cabinet

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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has advocated for the inclusion of physically-challenged members of the community in the cabinet of the incoming administration of Muhammadu Buhari.

HURIWA said it believed that the continuous exclusion of the physically-challenged was tantamount to the gross violation of section
14(3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999 (as amended). “This persistent rights violations must be torpedoed now,” the organisation stated.

National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Zainab Yusuf, jointly signed the statement.

There an estimated 20 million disabled people in this country with 176 million people, the largest in the continent.

“From our extensive findings, we are aware that Nigeria is blessed with top quality intellectually vibrant women who can competently and professionally pilot the affairs of vital federal ministries and agencies as the abundance of empirical evidence has shown,” HURIWA officials stated.

“We therefore urge our newly elected President to write his name in gold as one of the respected liberators of Nigerian women and the physically challenged by equitably allotting high caliber cabinet level appointments to these groups of very important Nigerians.”

Credit: CAJ News