The Involved Nigerian Girls, a group, has given President Muhammadu Buhari a 14-day ultimatum to sack the Chief of Military Employees, Lt Gen. Farouk Yahaya, and Nationwide Youth Service Corps Director-Common, Brigadier Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, over the harassment and detention of a feminine soldier, who accepted a wedding proposal from a male corps member.
SaharaReporters had reported that the feminine soldier, Non-public Hannah Sofiat Akinlabi, was ordered to be detain by Captain MM Abdulahi, Kwara State NYSC Camp Commandant, at a army detention facility in Ilorin, the capital, pending additional investigations into the matter.
A army supply had mentioned 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 standing order of social media rule and disobedience to ethics and tradition of the Nigerian Army".
Reacting in a press release, the ladies rights group led by Bimbola Olatenwaju berated the NYSC DG for what it termed "an apparent show of disdain for women".
The group additional referred to as the eye of Nigerians to the truth that the supply that mentioned a feminine soldier should serve for 3 years earlier than marriage, the idea upon which Akinlabi was being detained, has not been breached because the soldier merely accepted a proposal for marriage, which may take as much as 10 years earlier than being formally contracted.
It additionally puzzled if similar provision utilized to male officers, including that the group will go to any size to make sure that Non-public Akinlabi was not discriminated in opposition to due to her gender.
The ladies group mentioned the army code by advantage of Part 1(3) of the 1999 structure of Nigeria as amended stays null and void for clashing with a provision within the Nigerian supreme regulation.
The group vowed to instantly press for the unconditional launch of the detained feminine soldier.
The group mentioned, "Following the obvious breach of the feminine officer's elementary rights, we'll lead a protest to the Presidential Villa, United States Embassy, British Excessive Fee, Ministry of Girls Affairs, Human Proper Fee workplace and different key establishments if the Chief of Military Employees and NYSC DG will not be eliminated for his or her hatred in direction of girls throughout the subsequent seven days.
