Following last Thursday’s incident in which policemen and soldiers were involved in a brawl after a lance corporal contravened a traffic law by passing the lane designated for Bus Rapid Transit buses at Obanikoro end of Ikorodu Road , the Nigerian Army on Monday dismissed the errant soldier, Sunday Ayodeji.

PUNCH METRO had reported on June 24, 2011 that Ayodeji had defied traffic law and also assaulted security operatives who had been assigned by the Lagos State government to monitor compliance of traffic rules.

Ayodeji allegedly called his colleagues on the phone and the armed soldiers chased away the policemen and LASTMA officials directing traffic in the area, resulting in confusion.

However, the General Officer Commanding 81 Division, Maj.–Gen. Kenneth Minimah, said Ayodeji with recruitment No. 99NA /48/2627 of the 940 Regiment Workshops, had been dismissed for violation of civil law, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

“The dismissal of this soldier will serve as a warning to others. Military personnel must be warned that their insubordination of civil law will attract punitive measures like dismissal,” he said.

norrisman:

Admiral Arogundade = Promotion
Lance Corporal Ayodeji = Dismissed

While this may serve as a deterent to people who think they can flout the law and get away with it, I hope due process was followed in his sacking as I highly doubt a court marshall can be done in 3 days. I hope GEJ takes a leaf out of the Army's book and duly recall the Maudeke woman who never did her NYSC.

Bensonite:

For your update only! Mrs Madueke got an exemption letter from NYSC as this came up during her first appointment in 2007 at the floor of the senate. So back to the OP.

Decree 51 that establishes NYSC is very clear and unambiguous. As long as Diezani Allison-Madueke graduated before the age of 30, she must serve. It does not matter if she attended Unilag or Unipetrol. If she assumed public office in Nigeria before doing so, then she would have violated that law. Simple!

The criteria for her exemption from NYSC are also crystal clear:

1. If she was over 30 when she graduated, or

2. If she had served in the armed forces of the Federation or the Nigeria Police Force for a period of more than nine months, or

3. If she was a member of staff of any of the following:

(i) the Nigerian Security Organisation, or
(ii) the State Security Service, or
(iii) the National Intelligence Agency, or
(iv) the Defense Intelligence Service; or

4. If she had been conferred with any National Honour

For as along as she met none of these criteria, then she would have violated the law establishing the NYSC.
While I would also agree that she may not be the first or the only one to have 'dodged' NYSC and still gotten a job in Nigeria, we all have to realise that when you go fishing, you don't catch all the fishes that snag your line. She may be (yet) the fish to be caught. If the senate approved her appointment as a minister without asking to see her NYSC discharge or exemption certificate, then our senators must have made a meal of a very simple assignment.

Abu-Maryam:

Kai this [b](northern)[/b]army sounds audacious let them come back and take power from this useless ([b]southern)[/b]politician  

Kai this army sounds audacious let them come back and take power from this useless politician

norrisman:

Admiral Arogundade = Promotion
Lance Corporal Ayodeji = Dismissed
While this may serve as a deterent to people who think they can flout the law and get away with it, I hope due process was followed in his sacking as I highly doubt a court martial can be done in 3 days. I hope GEJ takes a leaf out of the Army's book and duly recall the Maudeke woman who never did her NYSC.