The
Nigerian Army says it has commenced investigation into a viral video showing
three alleged soldiers brutalising a yet-to-be-identified man at a location,
believed to be in the country.
The
soldiers had asked the victim to roll continually in the mud in the one minute
54 seconds video.
He
added that the army had yet to ascertain whether the incident happened in
Nigeria or outside the country.
He
said, “It is unfortunate that you concluded that the culprits were soldiers.
You should have said alleged soldiers in your write up.
The
fact that somebody wore military camouflage or held an AK-48 rifle does not
make him a soldier. We have a lot of fake soldiers and nobody can verify
where and when the incident happened.
“We
do not know how this information got out because the first blog that picked it
gave the impressing that it was based in London. However, the long and short of
it is that we are investigating the incident.”
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