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Soldiers attack Sanwo-Olu for arresting colleague who rode against traffic + Videos

Two soldiers who did not identify themselves have attacked the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for ordering the arrest of their colleague for riding his motorcycle against traffic on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

The Eagle Online recalls Sanwo-Olu ordered the arrest of four persons, including one who said he is a Soldier, on Tuesday.

The Governor, upon the man saying he is a soldier, said that is the more reason he would arrest him for breaking the traffic law of the state.

But reacting in separate videos that have since gone viral, the soldiers on Thursday said Sanwo-Olu had no right to arrest their colleague.

One of them said the Governor had no right to have called his colleague “useless” in the presence of “bastard civilians” and that the operatives of the Department of State Services who effected the arrest should not have touched a soldier.

The first soldier said in his own video: “Did I just hear your governor calling a soldier, a Lance Corporal, useless? 

“A Lance Corporal….

“This man broke his arm, they fired at the man. 

“There is iron in his hands.

“You are calling a soldier useless in front of those idiots, those bastard civilians. 

“DSS was pushing a soldier. 

“In any situation where you find yourself as a soldier, the Army only gives you five seconds to compose yourself, so after that, you must know how to reply to any attack or anything that comes your way.

“Because he is a governor, I know he (the arrested soldier) was shocked that the governor was arresting him. 

|I know I am not perfect and I am not saying I am but in any situation I find myself, especially beside your barracks, nobody can arrest you. 

“I repeat, nobody can arrest you because you have to stand your ground and nobody will slap you there.

“No DSS or police can slap you because you refuse to go. 

“Why will you arrest me when there are IP and military police?

“Okay, will it be because I took one way beside my barracks? 

“What if I just took the bike out to buy something? 

“Do I have to take the long route because I want to buy something? 

“Who does that? 

“In which Army?

“So, now, your governor has the guts to arrest and even call a soldier useless. 

“To be sincere, Lagos has been experiencing too much peace. 

“Let’s tell the truth, Lagos has been experiencing too much peace. 

“Let us assume this happened in the North East, where I am, is it here the governor’s convoy that is taking one way will arrest a soldier for taking one way?

“You are there pursuing civilians.

“What if they get involved in an accident along the line?

“If the soldier said he is not going anywhere, nobody has the power to slap him. 

“If the governor tries it, he knows he is already a bygone. 

“The governor dare not slap a soldier.”

In the second video, the soldier said: “Soldiers that suffer day and night. 

“How much do they pay soldiers? 

“I hear an iron was placed in the Lance Corporal’s hand because he was shot in the hand. 

“How much do they pay soldiers? 

“Calling a soldier useless? 

“And you call yourself the governor but you are misbehaving up and down. 

“Who are you, Governor Sanwo-Olu? 

“When you want to do your dirty job, you will call soldiers.

“Go and check the Ojo Road.

“Is it good?”

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