The Nigerian Army has disowned a viral video of men dressed in military apparel brutally attacking a civilian man.
In the video, four military-clad men are seen. Two of them then tell the man, who was stripped to his underpants, to bend his head. Immediately, one of the men strikes the civilian in the face twice as another man dressed casually records the incident with his phone.
The cause of the brutal treatment could not be determined as their voices were mumbled.
The Army, in a tweet on Thursday, disowned the military-clad men, saying “The style of their dressing and the dressing itself, – is at variance with the dressing pattern of contemporary NA soldiers – No name sign on the chest, desert boots on woodland camouflage?”
It added: “The persons in uniform, – all of them – completely – lack military bearing. None of them is fully dressed like present day NA personnel. The camouflage is not the proper NA camouflage in use today. This can easily be compared and corroborated.”
