Army Releases Female Soldier Who Accepted Marriage Proposal From Youth Corps Member

<p><strong>Hannah Sofiat Akinlabi&comma; a female soldier detained after video clips of her being proposed to by a male corps member at the National Youth Service Corps orientation camp in Yikpata&comma; Kwara State&comma; went viral on social media has been released by the Nigerian Army&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was gathered that Sofiat was released on Saturday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Spokesperson for the Nigerian Army&comma; Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu&comma; confirmed the development to <em>PRNigeria<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&comma; <em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I can confirm to you that an order has been made for the soldier to be freed and enjoy the Christmas with her family and friends with a serious warning for her not to repeat such act again&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The female soldier was ordered to be detain by Captain MM Abdulahi&comma; Kwara State NYSC Camp Commandant&comma; at a military detention facility in Ilorin&comma; the state capital&comma; pending further investigations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;christmas-tragedy-13-dead-as-bus-loses-control-in-ogun&sol;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;ff0000&semi;">Christmas Tragedy&colon; 13 Dead As Bus Loses Control In Ogun<&sol;span><&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>A military source had said she was detained for not being <em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;due for marriage&comma; romancing on uniform publicly&comma; absent on parade&comma; indiscriminate behaviour&comma; doing other things aside from her purpose in NYSC camp&comma; disobedience to standing order of social media rule and disobedience to ethics and tradition of the Nigerian Army”&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Akinlabi&&num;8217&semi;s arrest and detention was widely condemned by civil society groups and Nigerians in general&comma; who described it as gender discrimination by the Nigerian Army&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;