The civilian man who allegedly complemented a female Army officer and landed himself in hot soup as military cadets brutally assaulted him in a video which went viral, has given more details of the incident.
Victim of the ArmyCadet brutality, Sunday Amari
In an interview with a Punch's correspondent on Tuesday, 25-year-old man, Sunday Amari, who was brutalised by some army cadets in Abuja, says the Federal Capital Territory is not the place for him, adding that he had forgiven his assailants and relocated to Lagos.
He urged the President Buhari-led Federal Government to urgently do something about the attitude of men and women in uniform, adding that he was disappointed the Nigerian Army authorities had yet to apologise to him.
According to Amari, the degree of the injuries he sustained from the beating forced him to quit his job in Abuja and relocated to Lagos.
Sunday while speaking on Channels TV
He said, "Till now, I still feel pains in my neck and head. The incident cost me my job. It is my brother who has been taking care of me because the teaching job I applied for in Lagos has not come through. I have forgiven the officers, but I want them and others to be taught on how to relate with people."
It can be recalled that the video of Amari’s brutality went viral recently, and revealed how some cadets in uniform dragged him on the ground and subjected him to dehumanising treatment.
Amari, who studied Primary Education at the FCT College of Education, Zuba, and worked with Subsidy Re-investment Programme before the incident, said he was beaten up for his inability to run a distance of about 150 meters within eight seconds as ordered by the cadets.
He said he was on duty at the Jabi Lake Park on that day when the power-drunk cadet officers stormed in, picked on a man and allegedly beat him up.
He said, "While I was on duty at the park on December 31, 2014, around 6pm, about nine cadets came. They confronted a man and started beating him. I don’t know his offence. I was looking at them from afar when a cadet ordered me to run a distance of about 100 meters in five seconds to where he was.
"When I got there, his colleague, a woman, ordered me to run to where she was within three seconds. When I got there, she said I did not meet up with the three seconds."
The Benue indigene said the woman cadet gave him multiple slaps for failing to meet the time-frame.
The brother, James, urged the army to investigate the incident and fish out those involved in the act.
He said, "I love to meet those cadets in person. They need to explain why he (Amari) was beaten up. I have been expecting the army authorities to do something about it."
Meanwhile, the spokesperson for Nigerian Defence Academy, Capt. Musa Yahaya, said investigation was ongoing on the incident. "We have issued a press release immediately the video was out. We are still investigating the case," he said.
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