The army officer was hired by a woman to collect rent at the market, according to a source in the market who saw the incident.
As punishment for stirring up trouble and intimidating a guy at Fayose Market, the police detained an army officer and a woman on Thursday evening at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department.
During this time, he allegedly started brandishing a knife and yelling threats at everyone who approached him.
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Then, he made a young man remove his clothes and crawl in a canal filled with foul-smelling water.
In a video that SaharaReporters was able to get, the soldier is seen publicly humiliating the young man.
The source stated ;
“This incident happened at Fayose Market yesterday, 22/06/2023 around 10 am …where this woman in red head-tie brought a soldier to the market to collect a rent and harass anybody who dares to intervene…the yet unnamed soldier ordered this young man to crawl inside a dirty water just because he said “Oga soja enisuru” meaning soldier man, please calm down.
“The soldier threatened to stab and kill anybody who dares to come near him with the knife he’s holding. After he left the market, the whole marketers gathered up for an emergency meeting based on the harassment and humiliation done to us inside the market by this irate soldier.
“We all now decided that the soldier and the woman who brought him should be arrested by the Nigeria police.”
The source continued: “We lodged a complaint at the Ado central police station (Oke sha Ado Ekiti) and also at the police post inside Fayose Market.
“The police search and investigation revealed that both the woman and the solider came from Ilawe Ekiti to Ado Ekiti yesterday (Thursday).”
The woman and the soldier were taken into custody on Thursday night at 8:30, the source claims.
“They’re currently being locked up at the state CIID headquarters on Iyin Road, Ado Ekiti,” the source stated.
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