PHOTOS: Army gifts motorcycles to four soldiers for ‘outstanding conduct’

The 82 division of the Nigerian Army has presented motorcycles to four soldiers for carrying out their duties diligently.

Taoreed Lagbaja, general officer commanding (GOC) of the division, presented the gifts to two sergeants — Amodu Simon and Oyinbo Emmanuel — Mbanaso Isaac, a corporal, and Ibrahim Lawal, a private.

According to a statement by the army on Wednesday, the soldiers also received letters of commendation from the GOC during an event which held on Tuesday at Abakpa cantonment, Enugu.

“While making the presentation to the soldiers, Maj Gen Lagbaja described their conduct as commendable and exemplary and noted that the soldiers’ assiduousness in ensuring the hygiene of the various portions of the cantonment assigned to them was impressive. He charged other soldiers of the Division to emulate the exemplary conduct of the honourees,” the statement reads.

“The General Officer Commanding disclosed that the four motorcycles presented to the soldiers was a symbol of appreciation for their outstanding conduct. He therefore enjoined them not to relent in their duties even if they thought nobody is observing.

“Each of the four awarded soldiers were drawn from various units of the Division and were picked after a careful observation of their conducts over a period.”

See photos below.

However, the gesture has drawn varied reactions from Nigerians on Twitter.

Below are some reactions on Twitter.

They can still sale it.. That bike is worth 350k

— CHIJIOKE MARTIN (HIGH CHIEF) (@chijiokemartin9) August 3, 2022

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A very big Shame to the @HQNigerianArmy, the only reward to your officers who have done incredibly well is Okada. Awwww how did we get here!

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— BLISS BAKING TOOLS AND GADGETS (@Francisxaveir) August 3, 2022

At least let's appreciate Nigerian army for finding it worthy to reward and motivate rank and file in armed forces especially 82 div Enugu, this is the type of encouraging news, I particularly want to hear from Nigerian army not other negative news, thank you very much

— Chijioke Frederick (@ChijiokeFreder1) August 3, 2022

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