The Nigerian army apprehends a soldier who gained attention for lamenting about insufficient funds to visit home after serving on the war front for years.
As previously reported on Gistreel, the soldier faced challenges with the high transport cost and expressed his inability to afford the journey with his modest salary.
However, the military authorities were displeased with the soldier's video, deeming it embarrassing to the institution, resulting in his detention.
Reactions to the incident:
@IK101_ remarked: “This should tell others in that horrible entity how much they’re valued & what their next cause of action should be.”
@DanielRegha expressed: “Trying to silence an officer for crying out is nothing but tyranny; Nigerian soldiers should earn more than N50,000, especially considering their sacrifices.”
@ChubieUjah commented: “Gosh 🤦🏾♂️ but he didn’t even criticize anyone, he only lamented about his reality.”
@_iRoyalty_ added: “I knew this was going to happen… They’d discipline the life out of him and send him to the war front to die. It’s the typical ‘suffer and smile’ seen in the Nigerian Military.”
@Roseangel009 stated: “What a country! There is freedom of speech we claim, but freedom after speech is not guaranteed in Nigeria.”
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