Power-Drunk Soldiers Torture Woman Who Challenged Them for Driving Against Traffic
A sales representative of a mobile phone firm based on Victoria Island, Adetoun Adenuga, says she has yet to get over the torture she went through in the hands of some soldiers from Bonny Camp located along Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island.
Adenuga, said the soldiers, one of whom she identified as Abubakar D, through his name tag, beat her with a horsewhip and slapped her several times.
It was gathered that the woman wanted to cross to the other side of the road around 8am on Friday on her way to work when a Gulf car, with the number plate, LSD 738 DL, conveying the soldiers almost knocked her down.
Sharing her plight with Saturday PUNCH on the telephone, Adenuga said, “I was about to cross the road when a car came from nowhere and almost hit me. The driver was speeding. I was able to escape from getting injured. I asked them, ‘Where are you rushing to?’ I didn’t even know who was in the car. They parked, then I realised they were military men.
“I said, ‘Soldier, you almost killed me as you sped by.’ The speed was too much.’ They were three men and one woman, all of them in uniform. One of them said, ‘Come on; are you stupid?’ I said, ‘Oga, you are supposed to apologise for almost killing me. Do you know the shock of such an incident can actually take my life?’
“They just came down from the car saying, ‘You must be stupid.’ I said, “You’re saying I’m stupid for challenging you for almost taking my life. So are you telling me you will kill me and run away?’ They were going against traffic on a one-way for God’s sake. They beat me black and blue. The woman did not join them. She was by the car. One came with a whip; the other slapped me. My head still aches.”
Adenuga explained that she went to Bonny Camp to report the highhandedness of the military men, but a soldier at the gate denied her entry, telling her that she could not report about an atrocity committed by “soldiers to a soldier.”
A sales representative of a mobile phone firm based on Victoria Island, Adetoun Adenuga, says she has yet to get over the torture she went through in the hands of some soldiers from Bonny Camp located along Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island.
Adenuga, said the soldiers, one of whom she identified as Abubakar D, through his name tag, beat her with a horsewhip and slapped her several times.
It was gathered that the woman wanted to cross to the other side of the road around 8am on Friday on her way to work when a Gulf car, with the number plate, LSD 738 DL, conveying the soldiers almost knocked her down.
Sharing her plight with Saturday PUNCH on the telephone, Adenuga said, “I was about to cross the road when a car came from nowhere and almost hit me. The driver was speeding. I was able to escape from getting injured. I asked them, ‘Where are you rushing to?’ I didn’t even know who was in the car. They parked, then I realised they were military men.
“I said, ‘Soldier, you almost killed me as you sped by.’ The speed was too much.’ They were three men and one woman, all of them in uniform. One of them said, ‘Come on; are you stupid?’ I said, ‘Oga, you are supposed to apologise for almost killing me. Do you know the shock of such an incident can actually take my life?’
“They just came down from the car saying, ‘You must be stupid.’ I said, “You’re saying I’m stupid for challenging you for almost taking my life. So are you telling me you will kill me and run away?’ They were going against traffic on a one-way for God’s sake. They beat me black and blue. The woman did not join them. She was by the car. One came with a whip; the other slapped me. My head still aches.”
Adenuga explained that she went to Bonny Camp to report the highhandedness of the military men, but a soldier at the gate denied her entry, telling her that she could not report about an atrocity committed by “soldiers to a soldier.”
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