The Nigerian soldiers deployed in the streets of Beere in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, to curb the #EndSARS protests have been caught on camera flogging a woman for what they considered ‘indecent dressing’.
Some of the soldiers, who were chanting ‘EndSARS’, also shaved the heads of some youths considered to be wearing improper hairstyles.
In a video that has gone viral, a young lady putting on a spaghetti strapped dress and orange colored hairstyle is made to sit on the bare floor at a filing station while a soldier whips her buttocks.
The lady begged repeatedly begged the soldiers but the adamant Nigerian Army personnel asked her not to protect her buttocks as he continued to whip her.
A young man, whose head was also shaved, disclosed how he was being puled down from a commercial motorcycle by one of the soldiers.
Speaking in Yoruba language, he said, “I was on a motorcycle with my friends around Beere when I was stopped by soldiers. They said they wanted to see us. I was wondering what I had done because I wasn’t in possession of any weapon and I am not a fraudster.
“They said I should take off my cap and when I did so, they flogged me and asked me to kneel down. When I asked what my crime was, he ordered me to sit down and then brought out a pair of scissors from his pocket.
“The funny thing was that they collected money from us for the haircut.”
Soldiers deployed in the Nigeria streets to curb protests against police brutality and extrajudicial killings have been caught on camera perpetrating several acts of human abuse.
Last week, some officers of the Nigerian Air Force in Osun State were seen flogging civilians who they ordered to lie down in the mud.
The air force authority claimed to have arrested the officers but such cases are usually buried.
Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian military for committing several acts of abuse of humanity, some of which included whipping, forced haircuts, and sometimes, extrajudicial killings.
