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Disturbing details of the Airforce officers' atrocities

They reportedly came for 'Yahoo Boys'. They ruined everything else they could find instead.

Dr. Abanikanda of University of Osun, after attacks from Air Force personnel.
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New reports showed that after storming the school, the military men proceeded to private hostels in town where students of the school live, and attacked them.

According to Punch, the military men invaded the university campus twice on Tuesday the 23rd of May. Then they invaded the hostels to cause more damage.

A student told our correspondent on the telephone that a 400 level student of the university, Francis Olajide Olanubi, was wounded with a machete by the irate military men.

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The Dean, Student Affairs, UNIOSUN, Dr. Adebimpe Adigun, said on Wednesday morning about the fresh attack: "They called me again that the Air Force men went to various hostels where our students live and started attacking them again.

I was told that one of our students was macheted. He was taken to the school clinic for treatment.”

They came for Yahoo Boys.

We already know that the mayhem began when they came to the school to arrest an alleged Yahoo Boy.

A source on campus said:

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“There are Yahoo boys in our school and they usually settle men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad whenever they come. At times, the boys would call the policemen that they should come for the ‘settlement.’

The SARS came, as usual, yesterday but one of the Yahoo boys ran away to the Air Force institute to stay with his friends. He was accused of not contributing to the money to settle the police before he ran away.

His friends went to see him there and demanded that he should contribute his quotas but his Air Force friends said these boys should leave the guy. The guys also asked the Air Force men to stay out of the matter. The insult was said to have infuriated the Air Force  men, who descended on the boys. One of the boys was seriously beaten and was detained.”

They beat him and detained him there. Some students, who heard of this mobilised and wanted to go there to free him but the lecturers prevented the students.

The Air Force men probably thought the students were going to attack them when this was going on and they came and invaded the campus and beat up everybody.”

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The Nigerian military has an ugly reputation.

In a small social media poll, we asked people what their first encounter with men of the Nigerian military was like. 80% of the respondents said it was negative.

The Nigerian military has a reputation for bullying, and it seems like this is ingrained in the Nigerian DNA. We grow up understanding that only with the force do we assert authority.

Perhaps, it'd take a major mentality shift to kick Nigerians out of this pysche. That doesn't look like it's happening any time soon.

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