Crime
Ruth Ogunleye, female soldier exposes abuse by senior officers
Ruth Ogunleye, a Nigerian female soldier, has made severe claims against her superiors.
She claims that her supervisors, identified as Col. IB Abdulkareem, Col. GS Ogor, and Brig. Gen. IB Solebo, have made her life unpleasant.
Ogunleye holds Col. IB Abdulkareem personally responsible for the challenges she has encountered in the Army.
Ogunleye, also known as @Ogunleyeruthsavage1 on TikTok, recently recounted her upsetting experience with the app.
She alleged that Abdulkareem had repeatedly attempted to abuse her, administered injections against her will, forcibly removed her from her home, and imprisoned her in a psychiatric facility for several months.
She also claimed that the officer hampered her job advancement by rejecting her promotion opportunities because she reportedly refused his advances.
She said, “In 2022, I was posted to Cantonment Medical Centre, Ojo, where I met Col. IB Abdulkareem, who requested sex from me, and I refused. Ever since then, this man has been my nightmare in the Army, threatening to dismiss me each time.
“He comes to my room to inject me in my apartment. Send some boys to my house. If I’m lying, I have all the evidence. I have evidence against him, and I have witnesses.
“He also stigmatized me because I have a mental illness. Each time I try to expose him, or each time any senior person or any senior officer tries to intervene, he will tell them I have a mental illness.
“He froze my account for one year. February last year till date, no salary.”
“Anytime he feels like he wants to embarrass me, he asks some soldiers to beat me. After beating me up, they will inject me.
”He will ask one Funke Ayeni; she is a female soldier, and he will ask her to set me up. She will set me up, inject me, and they will go and throw me somewhere.
”At the end of the day, this Brig. Gen. IB Solebo and some of those senior colonels will come to that place; they will be videoing me,” she added.
Ogunleye sought assistance from Nigerians.
She was aware of the potential implications of her actions, including the possibility of being arrested.
According to her, her father attempted to interfere with Col. IB Abdulkareem in order to bring her peace.
She alleged the officer told her father to relay the message to her to “obey the last command.”
She noted that the “last order” was for the colonel to “sleep with me.”
