Speaking on Sunday, an
Interdenominational church Service at Saint Charles Lwanga Catholic Church in
Ikeja Cantonment to celebrate this year’s Nigerian Army Day celebration, the
General Officer Commanding, Major-General Isidore Edet, called on officers and
soldiers to be wary of the company they keep and to guide their words.
Following the allegation
that some officials of the Nigerian military were plotting a coup, the military
has began tapping the telephone conversation and text messages of its members
in an effort to keep surveillance of the activities of its officers.
Furthermore, security has
been heightened in different military barracks and formations within the
country.
Major-General Isidore Edet
said, “The Chief of Army Staff, COAS wants us to remind ourselves that at this
critical point in our national life and especially in Lagos and the Military
where there are rumours of coup, whether they are perceived or real, that as
soldiers we should be very careful of the company we keep.”
”What we need to do as
soldiers is to be on the guard, to be watchful of the people that go in and out
of the barracks, our mammy markets and places where we eat.”
“We should be careful of
what we hear them say by listening attentively so that we can pick what they
are saying or planning because when those people want to do this things they
come into the barracks and try to incite the barracks community on things that
are happening in the country, with words like: ‘Don’t you think you should do
something?’’
‘’Maybe they buy you drinks
and fish and while you drink and eat with them, they start a conversation.
Report such people so that you do not say I didn’t know at the end. Mind what
you say and the company you keep. Your telephone conversation is something you
should be very careful about because whatever you say or heard are being
monitored. Whatever you send through the medium is being intercepted and
collated so be careful.”
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