Workers protesting soldier brutality

Workers protesting soldier brutality shut down the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Abuja.

Under the Joint Executive Council, the civilian employees of the Ministry of Defence have closed the ministry’s Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, headquarters.

The move is in reaction to reports that rogue soldiers are abusing people.

It was stated that hundreds of non-military workers blocked the ministry’s entrance as the demonstration got underway early on Monday morning.

The President of the Council, Didam Joel, responded to the brutality by claiming that a ministry employee who was not a military official had been held by military authorities for a month.

He continued by saying that, in defiance of civil service regulations, an assistant director from the

ministry who was employed at Command Secondary School in Ojo, Lagos, was also brutalized yesterday.

According to Joe, the Ministry of Defence’s civilian staff was represented by all affiliate unions on the joint executive council.

Ambrose Akhigbe was one of the people brutalized on Monday by a private soldier under Lt. Akubor’s command, a member of the

Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) in the army, Abuja, informed Channel TV.

The person is expected to be in the hospital right now.
Additionally, he said that in just two months,

a laboratory scientist at the Naval Reference Hospital in Navy Town, Ojo, Lagos, was “brutally killed.”

“We were in the thick of things, supporting these despicable acts of killing MOD staff at duty posts, were the people in charge of

the present generation of soldiers in all command schools in Lagos, including some civilian PSOs.

“Therefore, we demand a total overhaul of the command schools, with a return to the ordinary school system and the leadership of professional

education officials in the Ministry of Defence who will only be able to provide security when they so choose.

The ASCSN representative stated, “The management of MOD should be aware that we are not backing down on this as we don’t know who is next.”