The Board of Inquiry set up by the General Officer Commanding 81 Division of Nigerian Army Major General Henry Edet would investigate the incident and recommend appropriate punishment for the soldiers.
Policemen attached to Yaba Police Division had arrested two of the 16 soldiers that invaded the community, whose identity were given as Privates Ihama Osaretin and Okpor Ray.
Addressing journalists in Lagos yesterday, General Edet said the army would go after other soldiers who participated in the attack.
The GOC, who spoke through the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, (DAPR), Lieutenant Commander, Kingsley Samuel, said the board of inquiry will sit for three weeks within which it is expected to also find out, among other things, whether the soldiers were on official duty in the area.
General Edet who said the alleged incident was a highly regrettable one, added that it was particularly worrisome now that the division, in conjunction with other security agencies, with full cooperation of the civil populace were consolidating on the gains of successfully dislodging pipeline vandals and criminal elements in Ibafo and Arepo areas of Lagos and Ogun States.
source sunnews.
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