A soldier sacked by the Nigerian army after she accused some senior officers of rape and sexual harassment has launched a video condemning her therapy.
Ex-private Ruth Ogunleye made the allegations through her TikTok account in January, saying she had suffered immensely because of her ordeal by the hands of a basic 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 susceptible, with out giving additional particulars.
Ms Ogunleye has now launched a second video on Tiktok, by 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 wish to thank [army spokesman] Basic Onyema Nwachukwu for posting me on all social media platforms, newspapers, it exhibits 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 wish to beg the Nigerian military to submit the end 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 grievance, the Nigerian Military referred the matter to the Navy Police for an intensive investigation. The investigation concluded that Colonel I.B Abdulkareem didn’t commit the alleged offences,” he mentioned.
He mentioned Ms Ogunleye had been discharged after refusing to get medical therapy 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 referred to as for an unbiased investigation.
“The military is thought for not wanting to clean its soiled linen in public,” Hadiza Ado, founding father of Ladies and Kids Initiative, instructed the BBC.
“If the military investigation are saying she had a medical situation which impacts her, then for the way lengthy was she within the service with that situation, why popping out to say it now that she was dismissed?” she requested.
