The Nigerian army says it will arrest soldiers who post
unauthorised pictures and videos on social media.
Lawrence Fejokwu, 81 division’s general officer commanding
(GOC), spoke through Nsikak Edet, his chief of staff, during a workshop
organised to educate officers on human rights and humanitarian laws.
Fejokwu said the training would help support the vision of
the chief of army staff (COAS), which is to build a Nigerian army repositioned
to professionally defeat all adversity in a joint environment.
“For instance, the case of EndSARS which we handled as a
division brought about a lot of issues bothering on proper management of social
media space,” he said.
“So, this lecture will instill high quality character on how
officers should comport themselves when on duties.
“People are watching, taking videos and recording and this
can be used against such an officer in a negative form.”
The GOC said the army would be educated on how to ensure
that their troops do not take and send unauthorised videos, recordings, or
pictures to the wrong set of people.
He added that soldiers who are caught doing so will be
arrested and investigated.
“So many photographs that are not supposed to be on the
social media space are there and some of them were taken by our own troops,” he
said.
“So, it is necessary to ensure that when conducting
operations, officers should not be allowed to do the things that can jeopardise
the instinct of the strategic directive of the command.
“Such an officer will be arrested, investigated and
court-martialed when caught.”
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