A Nigerian lady, Ify Nnamani has taken to popular social media platform, Facebook to recount a bitter encounter she and her co-travellers had with some Nigerian soldiers while traveling. She revealed how passengers in the bus she boarded were maltreated.
The young lady claimed that her bus was stopped by Nigerian soldiers while they were enroute. She alleged that the soldiers had stopped them for playing a loud music in the bus.
According to her, one of the officers had claimed that the loud music reminded him of when he was in depot. She also claimed that the soldiers later turned their attention on male passengers who had full hair.
They had reportedly told the men to cut off each other’s hair with a blunt blade they forcefully took from the driver.
The young lady noted that she was furious for the men because they gained no support from the elders in the bus.
She expressed that the elders had claimed that the punishment serves the men right, asking why they had so much hair as men.
Read below:
“This here, is so wrong on many levels� �
I’m traveling back from the village and these soldiers stopped our bus. First, this one questioned our driver for playing music that reminds him of his days in the ‘depot.’ Then he asked these three guys to come down for carrying full hair. Now they are making them barb each other with the blunt razor they forced our driver to provide.
I don’t know when carrying full hair or playing music in the bus became illegal that these soldiers had to detain us for over 30 minutes. I was so angry on behalf of those guys, especially as some of the older folks in our bus kept saying they deserved to have their hairs cut that way and asking what a guy is doing with full hair.
All these blatant abuse of power and bullying of innocent civilians by the military can’t be allowed to continue unchecked.
Post edit: This happened this morning, around 8:30 Am, along Eke-Affa road, Udi local government area of Enugu state. That place was usually a police checkpoint. Was a bit surprised to see soldiers today.”
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