A soldier sacked by the Nigerian army after she accused some senior officers of rape and sexual harassment has launched a video condemning her remedy.
Ex-private Ruth Ogunleye made the allegations by way of her TikTok account in January, saying she had suffered immensely because of her ordeal by the hands of a common and two colonels.
Her allegations brought on widespread outrage in Nigeria and prompted the ladies’s minister to debate the case with the military chief.
After an investigation, the military dismissed her allegations and mentioned the soldier had been discharged on medical grounds as she suffers from a situation that makes her weak, with out giving additional particulars.
Ms Ogunleye has now launched a second video on TikTok, during which she requires the investigation to be made public and describes how she was raped and given an injection by these she accused.
“Firstly I need to thank [army spokesman] Normal Onyema Nwachukwu for posting me on all social media platforms, newspapers, it reveals how highly effective I’m,” she mentioned.
“January ninth 2024, I got here on social media to complain of how I used to be harassed, of how I used to be raped and the way I used to be injected and put inside a casket.
“How I had a gun pointed at me, was handcuffed and saved inside an workplace for some days.
“I need to beg the Nigerian military to submit the result of the investigation on all social media platforms, in order that the world would know what transpired,” she famous.
The result of the investigation was revealed by Gen Nwachukwu on Tuesday night.
“Upon receipt of her criticism, the Nigerian Military referred the matter to the Navy Police for an intensive investigation. The investigation concluded that Colonel IB Abdulkareem didn’t commit the alleged offences,” he mentioned.
He mentioned Ms Ogunleye had been discharged after refusing to get medical remedy from both the Nationwide Hospital within the capital, Abuja, or the Nigerian Military.
He went on to accuse her of propagating “false narratives in opposition to Colonel Abdulkareem and different senior officers [and] utilizing on-line platforms to have interaction in cyberbullying and defamation”.
Nonetheless, ladies’s rights activists have known as for an impartial investigation.
“The military is understood for not wanting to clean its soiled linen in public,” Hadiza Ado, founding father of Girls and Kids Initiative, advised the BBC.
“If the military investigation are saying she had a medical situation which impacts her, then for a way lengthy was she within the service with that situation, why popping out to say it now that she was dismissed?” she requested.
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