Nigeria Newspapers Online

MINNA – Two senior officers of the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Ni­gerian Army, Minna, have allegedly connived, arrest­ed and detained a civilian on the ‘Orders of the Com­mander’, over suspicion that he wanted to defraud their lover who is also a girlfriend/business partner to the man.

The lady at the centre of the scandal (names withheld) deals in pepper soup/fish and relat­ed edibles at the Officer’s Mess TRADOC and the two were said to have been ‘running things’ together until lately when sus­picion and distrust over recent financial deal tore them apart.

An army officer, said to be in-charge of a particular unit at the TRADOC, according to findings is going out with Lin­da, and had claimed to have ef­fected the arrest and detention of Linda’s business partner on the orders of the Commander who was out of town on an of­ficial engagements when the incident occurred.

The incident which has however generated criticisms from civilian populace as they are now arguing if the soldiers have nothing doing to have abandoned their core mandate and deploy office mercenaries to oppress a man because of their lover over suspicion in business and relationship gone awry.

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The lady and the civilian man (names withheld) have been friends and business part­ners but their closeness began to crack when she started sus­pecting foul play in one of their financial dealings.

She confided in one of their colleagues who in turn encour­aged her to use her ‘connection’ with some senior officers to deal with the situation, an ad­vice she accepted and immedi­ately acted upon.

The story had it that, the second army officer had been eyeing the younger sister of Linda, so to her it was a good opportunity even if it means trading her younger sister to get full control of the officers to ‘deal’ with her friend.

Linda had concluded plans with her soldier lovers on how to get her own pound of flesh and was ready to sacrifice her younger sister that is support­ing her in the business to get her friend arrested and ‘deal with him,’ the source said.