By Gideon Njoku
In a very sad, shameful incident, a female soldier, identified as Lance Cpl Jonah Comfort, 15NA/74/4422 has been dismissed from the Nigeria Army for stealing.
Dismissed Lance Cpl Jonah was said to have stolen a gold wristwatch which worth was put at N35million.
The gold wristwatch belong to the wife of an unnamed senior Army Officer who Jonah was attached to, and working for.
It is not known what pushed her, or if she knew the worth of the wristwatch, but she sold it to one of those “Mallams” who buy gold within, crush, and sell outside the Country. She sold it for the sum of N35million. The make of the wristwatch also remain unknown.
Her fate was sealed when, while looking for, and tracking how the wristwatch got missing, it was traced to the Mallam.
On arrest, the Mallam confessed that he bought the wristwatch for the sum of five million Naira from Jonah.
She was, thereafter, accosted, arrested, tried and dismissed on 17th May 2024.
Her family, friends and colleagues are still in shock that she could engage in such criminality. A couple of them insist that “something must have gone wrong somewhere.”
