The Director-General of the National Youths Service Corps, Brig.-Gen. Ibrahim Shuaibu, has stated his position on the fate of Hannah Sofiat, a female soldier being detained for romantically engaging with a corps member who proposed to her.
Shuaibu appears to be in a peculiar position on the matter as he is primarily a military officer and then the father figure to the ‘corpers’.
According to him, although the NYSC encourages inter-marriages, it had not witnessed a situation a corps member would propose to a soldier.
He, however, backs the military for taking the disciplinary action on the lady soldier.
At a press briefing on Tuesday, the DG said, “Every organisation has its own customs and traditions, and we have to abide by it. We, on our part, have spoken to our corps members.
“We encourage them to inter-marry, but we have never had a situation where a corps member will go and propose (to a soldier).
“The Army has its own tradition and they will not joke with it. So, we always tell our corps members to play by the rules.
“I can assure that the army as an institution is built on its customs and traditions, and anything that will impinge on discipline, they will not take it lightly.”
