The civilian staff of the ministry of defence under the umbrella of the joint executive council, staged a protest that shut down the headquarters of the ministry in Abuja over alleged brutalisation of their members by operatives of the military.
The president of the council, Didam Joel, said a civilian staff of the ministry has been under detention for a month by military authorities, even though he is not military personnel.
Joel added that another civilian, an assistant director of the ministry working at command secondary school, Ojo, in Lagos, was equally brutalised on Monday without recourse to civil service rules.
“We were at the heat of it, the person controlling the current crop of soldiers in all command schools in Lagos including some civilian PSOs, are backing these shameful acts of killing MOD staff at duty posts.
“We therefore demand the complete overhaul of the command schools by returning the schools to their original structure of standard school system, to be headed by professional education officers in the Ministry of Defence and they can only provide security if they wish.
“The management of MOD should be aware that we are not backing down on this as we don’t know who is next,” an official of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) said.
