'Boko Haram is attacking people and you are collecting N1,000 per car’ — Gov Zulum shouts at soldiers [Video]
The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, came down hard on soldiers manning Damaturu-Maiduguri road in the state on Monday, January 6, 2020 for extorting people on the highway.
Babagana Zulum, Borno State Governor angry at soldiers (Youtube/TheCable)
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The governor, who had earlier been briefed that the security operatives were extorting people, alighted from his vehicle and walked straight to where some of the soldiers were.
“I’m going to report all of you in this unit… nobody can tolerate this. Boko Haram is attacking people and you are here collecting N1000 per car,” he said in the video, obtained by TheCable below:.
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Even after one of the soldiers tried to calm the governor down, saying he would look into the case, Zulum fired back, saying: “But we saw them.”
Young soldiers who block roads across Nigeria should also be severely dealt with
As it had been reported in an opinionated article by Pulse Nigeria's Jude Egbas, about a disturbing trend among cadets of the Nigeria Defense Academy (NDA) and the Nigeria Military School (NMS), which it’s not an entirely new drama.
Young recruits storm busy roads/expressways in complete military fatigues, block busy roads/expressways, boast about how no one can stop them, compound traffic, record their despicable act on camera and return to do the same in some other location the next day.
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The video above really made rounds on social media that it got the attention of former minister and one time presidential aspirant, Obiageli Ezekwesili, on twitter.
“I have tried hard to understand various versions of this story involving cadets of the Nigerian Army but still don’t get it, What is the meaning of this scale of lawlessness and intoxication by these lowest in the chain of the military in our Democracy???” she tweeted.
Across Nigeria, there are also many checkpoints manned by soldiers, some of whom extort motorists and commercial motorcyclists.
Pulse had reported that the Damaturu-Maiduguri road was under Boko Haram attack last weekend.
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