After Female Soldier Complained About Sexual Harassment By Senior Military Officers, See The Shocking Thing Nigerian Army did To Her Son
The Nigerian Army is said to have apprehended Emmanuel Brown, 23, the son of female soldier Philomena Nnamoko, who is stationed at llese Sappers Barracks, Division 2, Ogun State.
According to information obtained by
The PUNCH journalist, Brown was placed under house arrest in a guardroom by a female lieutenant colonel in the army for having spoken with The PUNCH just after his mother was sent to a Yaba mental health facility.
During the discussion with The PUNCH correspondent, Brown described how his mother was beaten by soldiers and admitted to a mental health facility while being treated for a mental disorder.
Nnamoko stated in an interview with Sunday PUNCH that she had drafted ten letters of discharge without receiving approval from her supervisors, accusing them of sexual harassment and
mistreatment.
But in a voicemail that Nnamoko’s lawyer, Kayode Oshiyemi, sent to Sunday. PUNCH, The PUNCH reporter could hear her complaining that her son was kept in a guardroom.
She was heard saying, “They are unwilling to release me from here and have locked up my child in the guardroom because he spoke to PUNCH Newspaper. Civilian workers on this premise concluded that I would be here (psychiatric hospital) for a month, alleging that I had attempted suicide, which I never attempted to do.
“The most painful part is my child who
had been detained in the guardroom by a
female lieutenant colonel.”
Efforts to speak with the Director of Army Public Relations, Maj. Gen. Nwachukwu Onyema, proved abortive as his number was unreachable, and he had not replied to messages sent to him via SMS and WhatsApp as of the time of filing this report.
But the spokesperson of the 35 Artillery Brigade, Lt. Mohammed Goni, said, “The whole concept of your story is not correct and you didn’t contact me at that point to clarify issues to you.”
“I can’t give you fictitious information to work with. Come let’s go for investigative journalism so you can see for yourself; you can’t write such a sensitive report without having factual proof, Goni said. Reacting to the incident, the lawyer described Brown’s arrest as unlawful.
Oshiyemi, “The boy went to see his mother and they locked up the boy, he is now in the cell of the Nigerian army because he went to make a publication
about his mother
“Because they don’t want us to go to court because of the ill-treatment that they had done to the woman (Philomena), they are now locking up her son in the guardroom. Meanwhile, the boy has done nothing wrong, just because he was granted an interview to
PUNCH Newspaper, that is an unlawful
detention of a civilian.
The lawyer told Sunday PUNCH that the
soldier’s son had been unreachable when
he tried to contact him.
He said, “When I tried calling the boy’s phone, I discovered that someone else was using it to chat with me on WhatsApp. Later, I found out that the boy
was in the guardroom and the person i
was communicating with was not him.
“Unsure of their identity, I messaged
them, explaining that I knew the boy was
unlawfully detained according to his
mother, and that I would take action
because he is a civilian, not an army
officer, and should not be detained.
“Around 30 minutes later, the son called
me and informed me that he had been
released. I asked him why he had been
detained, and he explained that a
lieutenant colonel claimed he had
published the issue in a newspaper, and
that was what led to his arrest.”
