Lance Corporal Rotimi Olamilekan (service number 18NA/77/1009 LCPL), serving with the 81 Division Task Force Battalion in Maiduguri, Borno State, has been detained after posting a video calling on politicians to ālet each one of them bring their son to join the Nigerian Armyā and help fight terrorism.
Olamilekan was reportedly arrested on February 11, 2026, and initially held in Maiduguri before being transferred to Abuja.
He was not allowed to inform his family but asked colleagues to notify his aged mother. Since his detention, he has allegedly been denied access to legal representation.
In the video shared on his Facebook page, the soldier lamented, āThe way I dey lose my colleagues, it is getting to things wey be say e dey comot tears for my eye day by day. In this country, we have 36 governors, we have like 109 senators, even ministers, we have like almost 60.
We have House of Representatives, chairmen of local governments ā 774.ā He urged these leaders to send their sons to join the fight.
Sources added that Olamilekan has spent four years and eight months in Maiduguri on counter-insurgency operations without promotion or additional benefits. Nigerian Army spokesperson Col. Appolonia Anele did not respond to requests for comment.
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