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BREAKING: Army Releases Female Soldier Who Accepted Corper’s Proposal

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya has ordered the immediate release of a detained female soldier who accepted corper’s proposal

EKO HOT BLOG the Nigerian Army on Saturday released Private Hannah Sofiat Akinlabi, a female soldier detained after video clips of her being proposed to by a male corps member at the National Youth Service Corps orientation camp in Yikpata, Kwara State, went viral on social media.

Private Hannah Sofiat Akinlabi, the female soldier detained for accepting marriage proposal form male corps member

The spokesperson for the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, confirmed the development of PRNigeria.

He said, “I can confirm to you that an order has been made for the soldier to be freed and enjoy the Christmas with her family and friends with a serious warning for her not to repeat such act again.”

This online media platform recalls that the female soldier was ordered to be detained by Captain MM Abdulahi, Kwara State NYSC Camp Commandant, at a military detention facility in Ilorin, the state capital, pending further investigations.

A military source had said she was detained for not being “due for marriage, romancing on uniform publicly, absent on parade, indiscriminate behaviour, doing other things aside from her purpose in NYSC camp, disobedience to the standing order of social media rule and disobedience to ethics and tradition of the Nigerian Army”.

Akinlabi’s arrest and detention was widely condemned by civil society groups and Nigerians in general, who described it as gender discrimination by the Nigerian Army.

It was gathered that the female soldier had been warned and reprimanded for breaching the extant rule guiding the conduct of military personnel.

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