AB$I:
If nigerian soldiers are agberos in uniforms what of you nigerian civilians?u are animals in muftis.go to your same developed countries&learn how civilians properly behave

Thank you jare my brother....some posters were in a joyous mood on a particular thread cos a state officer was killed by a vehicle.

One poster even replied that state/federal officers envy him cos he drives a SUV...ehhn. After reading that post, I then concluded that some Nigerians deserve the beating they occassionally receive from men in uniform.

Quite funny man.U sabi to tell story.

I tire sef..everywhere in Lagos is full of army barrack...in yaba area where I stay...we have close to 20barrack...yaba only...in UK.army don't live close to people...dey r meant for war...in uk..its hard to see army on d street...occasionally..

Lie or no lie,I just can't stop laughing.

Are u a war journalist? If yes, then go to syria cos we ain't fighting war yet. Abi u wan do Amebo? Na ur type full for Dana plane crash site wey no gree make NEMA do their work.

those saying the Op is lying do not know or have not witnessed it before. @ Op just thank ur God, cos those guys are damn brutal. A boy was almost beaten to point of death for same reason in Warri this year. If not for intervention of an hausa fellow that knew ths guy, na only God for know wetin for happen.

Lucky boy. What a lawless country. A soldier is killed and hundred civilians are killed to replace dem.

GUY,U DEY VERY VERY LUCKY O..THIS WAS THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED TO ME YESTERDAY EVENING AT WHARF,APAPA..I WAS TRYING TO PASS ONE OF MY TRUCKS INTO THE PORT WHEN I SAW LIKE 5POLICEMEN BRUTALIZING THIS OKADAMAN(COMMERCIAL MOTORCYCLIST)..I MOVED CLOSER TO WADE INTO THE SITUATION THINKING THEY WERE MEN FROM THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THEY WERENT IN UNIFORM,ONLY FOR ONE THEM TO ASK ME WHAT IS MY OWN AND I REPLIED I KNOW THE OKADAMAN.ONE OF THEM IN UNIFORM(APPARENTLY THE ONLY SANE ONE IN THEIR MIDST) CAME TO ME TO ASK THE OKADAMAN TO OBEY FIRST.I COULDNT MOVE CLOSER ANYLONGER BECAUSE THE SITUATION WAS ALREADY BURNING BY THEN..I MOVED BACK,BROUGHT OUT MY SAMSUNG GALAXY 3,OPENED THE COVER AND I WAS ABOUT TAKING CLEAR CRISP SHOTS OF THE WHOLE SCENE WHEN I HEARD..
WETIN U DEY DO?
GOD PUNISH YOUR PAPA?
GIMME YOUR PHONE?
DANBOROOBA SHEGE?
DANINSKA?
ALL THESE WORDS DIDNT JUST PASS BY WITHOUT HEAVY PUNCHES AND SLAPS,THEN I WAS ASKED TO HAND OVER MY PHONE WHICH I DIDNT COS I WOULD HAVE STILL BE MOURNING BY NOW(IT WOULD BE SMASHED INSTANTLY)..THE WHOLE PATROL VAN TURNED ON ME AND LEFT THE OKADAMAN,I WAS BUNDLED INTO THE VAN AND I WAS DRIVEN STRAIGHT TO THE POLICE STATION.I COULDNT BELIEVE MY EARS ON GETTING TO THE STATION
NA U DEY ATTACK POLICE ROBBERY INVESTIGATION!!
U ARE AIDING AND ALBEITING CORRUPTION!!
U ARE INTRUDING A HIGH CRIMINAL PROFILE!!
U ARE THE RING LEADER!!
OYA,WRITE STATEMENT,I WILL TEACH U A LESSON OF A LIFETIME(THAT IS IF U EVER COME OUT OF IT ALIVE!!
THANK GOD FOR AN OFFICER THAT KNEW ME AND THE MANY DECEITS OF THE PHONE,I PROLLY SHOULD BE COOLING OFF IN KIRIKS MAX BY NOW

O_D_B: Nigerian army are just a bunch of bullies who have never engaged a standing army but only their citizens.

I bet Cameroonian Ger-dames will give em a well deserved a55 whooping

Say something else...I have IT on good authority that before the ICJ decision the Cameroon gendarmes had an encounter with the Nigerian Army and they didn't find it funny. If there's anything the gendarmes fear presently it's the Nigerian army. If you doubt me cross over to the peninsula and ask a gendarme i.e if he was one of the lucky few that escaped the massacre i.e if anyone escape at all.

Do you even know why they chose to go to the ICJ?

sanniemoe: GUY,U DEY VERY VERY LUCKY O..THIS WAS THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED TO ME YESTERDAY EVENING AT WHARF,APAPA..I WAS TRYING TO PASS ONE OF MY TRUCKS INTO THE PORT WHEN I SAW LIKE 5POLICEMEN BRUTALIZING THIS OKADAMAN(COMMERCIAL MOTORCYCLIST)..I MOVED CLOSER TO WADE INTO THE SITUATION THINKING THEY WERE MEN FROM THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THEY WERENT IN UNIFORM,ONLY FOR ONE THEM TO ASK ME WHAT IS MY OWN AND I REPLIED I KNOW THE OKADAMAN.ONE OF THEM IN UNIFORM(APPARENTLY THE ONLY SANE ONE IN THEIR MIDST) CAME TO ME TO ASK THE OKADAMAN TO OBEY FIRST.I COULDNT MOVE CLOSER ANYLONGER BECAUSE THE SITUATION WAS ALREADY BURNING BY THEN..I MOVED BACK,BROUGHT OUT MY SAMSUNG GALAXY 3,OPENED THE COVER AND I WAS ABOUT TAKING CLEAR CRISP SHOTS OF THE WHOLE SCENE WHEN I HEARD..
WETIN U DEY DO?
GOD PUNISH YOUR PAPA?
GIMME YOUR PHONE?
DANBOROOBA SHEGE?
DANINSKA?
ALL THESE WORDS DIDNT JUST PASS BY WITHOUT HEAVY PUNCHES AND SLAPS,THEN I WAS ASKED TO HAND OVER MY PHONE WHICH I DIDNT COS I WOULD HAVE STILL BE MOURNING BY NOW(IT WOULD BE SMASHED INSTANTLY)..THE WHOLE PATROL VAN TURNED ON ME AND LEFT THE OKADAMAN,I WAS BUNDLED INTO THE VAN AND I WAS DRIVEN STRAIGHT TO THE POLICE STATION.I COULDNT BELIEVE MY EARS ON GETTING TO THE STATION
NA U DEY ATTACK POLICE ROBBERY INVESTIGATION!!
U ARE AIDING AND ALBEITING CORRUPTION!!
U ARE INTRUDING A HIGH CRIMINAL PROFILE!!
U ARE THE RING LEADER!!
OYA,WRITE STATEMENT,I WILL TEACH U A LESSON OF A LIFETIME(THAT IS IF U EVER COME OUT OF IT ALIVE!!
THANK GOD FOR AN OFFICER THAT KNEW ME AND THE MANY DECEITS OF THE PHONE,I PROLLY SHOULD BE COOLING OFF IN KIRIKS MAX BY NOW

oya help me tell those wey dey doubt the op. They've not seeen that's why they saying op u dey lie, story, and all sorts.

nairaland wan kill u!seun no send anybody ooo

Oniro Jatijati!

na2day!:
I no fit shout o!
Op, you made the coke i was drinking come out of my nose
Thank God for ur life, u for become statistics in the fight against boko haram!
I can see the headline of tomorrow's dailies already - "The spokesman of B.H was shot to death while preparing the propaganda video for upload!"

you no go kill person o

thank God for ur life u for make front page tomorrow say dem dom capture abu qadar abi wetin be him name

@All, this incident didnt happen in Okene rather it happened in LOKOJA on their way out of the barracks gate.

@sanniemoe,
thank you for bailing me out. These guys wont understand what i went through. it was a horrible experience!! If not God who allowed that guy to show up, i would have been history by now. GOD FORBID!!
the scenario you describe up there was the exact ordeal i passed through this morning.
the first plain soldier was like "who are u?" eh?? "what are u doing"?!

The north is about to get a flavour of the Biafra experience of occupation. Without the genocide of famine and mass killings and rapes. If only they stuck to the agreed Aburi accord.

Chanchit: Instead of wasting ur talent like acidtalk, why don u start by writing fictional novels...?

nice one

lacasa: Nigerian soldiers r mere agberos in uniform

They shld go ϯo developed parts of the world anϑ see Ђδω soldiers behave more gentle-manly than the civilians sef.

@op.. Tnk God fσr his mercy on Ɣou dat day

well Sir, that is a complete lie. I biliv our own soldiers may overdo some things but listen, soldiers all around ds world have ds 'i'm in charge' ego. They're alwys ready for trouble, ready to show u who's in charge. If u talk abt gentlemen, take abt the navy, anytime, anywhere!

1800bc: Bloody liar!

it can happen to you!

Op,pele o! Though i can't stop laughing. My baby dey look me like say i don mad....... Hilarious, i tell you

Nextworldnx:

Guy, u wont understand, i ran to a hideout and took a good look at myself...can not believe i just received a beating from these men, and am still standing(though fretting and shaking vigorously).
The only sign on me is the sweet curves and rough patches their hands deposited on my cheeks. I cant be joking about this! its even more painful that my video is lost because you will actually here the "hey you, what are doing!??" part before i quickly pressed the stop button.

Besides, right now, i've called my chick over to massage my body.

see u o..u re still talkin of video..jst thank God u were nt burnt to ashed with ur phone..

@OP
Tales by moonlight- too many coincidences in your story

U wud av been my best journalist on NL,had been u captured d video of d whole scenario in lokoja not minding d degree of d beating.Ask d leadership journalist dat was assaulted,he wil tel u beta.
Anyway,u can stil make it.it is not over until it is over.if dey beat u,we wil sue dem,i wil stand as d lawyer together wit seun n other volunteers on NL,afterall u covering d video for Nairaland.
U can stil make it, Wishing all d best nx time.

looool!

Nextworldnx: I dont even know where to post this.
I was at the Chari Maigeri Barracks lokoja (Kogi State) as at 11:00 am this morning, when almost a battalion of soldiers from kaduna, makurdi, ibadan etc who have been camping here all the while, started filing out in about Eight truck loads. They were cocking their guns, singing war songs, preventing motorist from moving, as well as chasing away onlookers, as they move en route okene.

They scene looked more as from a war movie scene (Band of brothers), so i felt i should capture this electric moment on phone and share with my nairaland community. I located a spot in the crowd, brought out my phone and positioned it at an angle am sure no one would see it, not knowing that some soldiers were on mufti with us in the crowd. Before i knew it, one of them spotted me and this happened next:-......

soldier 1:Hey u, what are you doing?
Me: who me?.... gbosa! gbosa!! *receives slaps*
soldier 2: who is that?
soldier 1: he is holding a camera!
Me: its a phone, am listening to music gbam! liar! *receives another slap* kicks *more slaps*
-continued beating and phone seized-
soldier 1: u be boko haram abi? u wan tell ur people for okene say we the come hen?
soldier 2: drag am out, danboroba shege(hausa)
A soldier friend identifies me from afar, crosses the road, and immediately prevented me from being dragged out!(Thank God for that, i guess i would have been shot). Asked me to mix with the crowd and dissapear before others notice.
i ran and did not look back. Went back after an hour to collect my phone from my soldier friend who asked me to better go for thanksgiving on sunday, if he had not spotted on time i would have been history.

i wonder what came over me, taking a filmed shot of soldiers going on a shoot-out with those okene boys for killing two soldiers last week. So far, they have wasted over 57 people in okene since their raid started, no wonder okene is like a ghost town.

Thank God Am Alive, with my phone in good condition, but was unable to retrieve the videos because it was deleted before the phone was handed over. If not for my friend, the soldiers wanted me in guard room for 3 days with enough frog jumps.

Its a pity i lost the video, it would have been wonderful to have their parade clip here.
Anywayz Nairaland, thank God i came out in one piece.

thank god o u escapd death by d whiskers

Is it not a recurrent decimal that you need to speak HAUSA to all these civilian-battering soldiers and policemen? Think about that.

I wish Nigeria had the second amendment which is the right to bear arms, and let some bastard soldier or police come and try to brutalize you, a bullet to the head will send a clear message. God bless USA a armed society is a polite society.

Mr OP, thank God for ur life.. Feb 8 this yr i went shopping in cameroun (central Africa) during one of the open border free entry market days.. O boi. I come dey snap pictures. Na im some jandamarines, thier military guys hold me o put me for cell for 3hrs.on accounts of spying for boko haram as a nigerian. I am alive today for two reasons..God and the fact that they were bribable.. 100,000 francs saved d day sha. I was a corper , of which dem no send NYSC. I escaped with a fleeting bike and canoe. When i got back to naija.. I almost kissed the ground.. Lesson learnt : never use ur phone o.. U no be CNN.

ppl have to understand that in nigeria the men in uniform are marked men in any volatile situation.most of the time armed robbers have killed policemen even ithut the police officer chasing them,and in okene and other areas where militry men have been killed it as senseless and purel stupid to be using ur camera on them ,do u think it was a jamboree or circus?when one soldier dis killled by civilians these army guys run crazy ,thay guy was very very very LUCKY,if they had killed him nothing would have happened.nd the first question anybody will ask is WHY THE HELL WAS HE RECORDING THEM?WAS HE A JOURNALIST?WHAT BUSINESS DOES HE HAVE TO BE RECORDING THEM?

Next time if u c khaki bois on parade u go still video them.

What a husband bunch of bullies. Thank God for the op's life.