Army warn men, offficers from marrying foreigner
Ibrahim Adesina
Nigerian Army, at the weekend warned that the law prohibiting serving officers and soldiers from taking foreigners as spouses was still in place.
The army spokesperson, Col. Sani Usman who stated this advised army personnel, who had the intention of marrying foreigners to have a rethink or put in their notification of retirement.
According to him, the law, which has been in existence since 1975, was enacted for security reasons.
“This clarification has become necessary to disabuse the minds of the public of the rumour being peddled by some of its personnel, who were dismissed from service for violating the law and taking to the streets to blackmail the army that they were wrongfully dismissed from service”, he said.
Usman, who made this known at a media briefing, also revealed that some dismissed soldiers took advantage of the recent review set up by the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Yusuf Buratai, to review cases of personnel convicted by a general court martial for offenses committed while on counter insurgency operation in the North east to appear before the review committee.
He described the dismissed personnel as miscreants and criminals, said their cases were out rightly rejected by the review committee.
