Lady forced to take off her Camouflage Army uniform

Lady forced to take off her Camouflage Army uniform A picture of the incident, which has been trending on the Internet, showed the victim being forced to pull down her trousers as her underwear jutted out. A military man, who was supervising the unsavoury show, bent over the victim, who looked terrified and appeared to be begging another officer whose face was not revealed by the shot. Although the identity of the supervising military officer was also shielded by his cap, the face of the lady at the centre of the drama was visible. The place and time of the incident could not establish the time, place and circumstances surrounding the incident. But available information showed the victim was harrassed somewhere in the northern part of the country for putting on army camouflage. A large number of people, who reacted to the photo on different social media platforms condemned the incident, saying the victim was dehumanised. On Nairaland, a poster with the alias, Superpark, said it was wrong for anyone to take the law into his own hands no matter the offence. While citing sections 108, 109 and 110 of the Nigerian Criminal Code Act which prescribed punishment for use of a military uniform for the purpose of impersonation, the poster said the lady was not guilty of any crime. “She is not impersonating anybody with the clothes; when did army men start to wear tight trousers, and who gave the army the right to strip civilians?” he wrote. Another poster, Mikool007, said the military were fond of intimidating civilians. “It is your right to wear anything you want, but if you impersonate someone, e.g. a military officer, you will be prosecuted accordingly (not humiliated publicly) and is the army too dumb to differentiate their uniform from designer clothes? These guys are too busy intimidating us; we’ve forgotten they are here to serve us. I’m not in the army, but I know for sure that the girl is not wearing the Nigerian military uniform,” he said. Another user, Link20k, said if the victim committed a crime, she was supposed to be taken in for questioning and not humiliated in the public.