I Would Have Been Wasted Like A Vagabond If I Finished At NDA, Says Ali Baba

Ali Baba, the Nigerian slapstick comedian, says he would have been “wasted” if he’d determined to affix the army. Final Tuesday, armed bandits had attacked the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna at night time, killing two officers.

 

This was after communities and colleges within the state and other elements of the northwest had been attacked by bandits.

 

In an Instagram post which was shared alongside a video on Friday, Ali Baba mentioned he’s comfortable he backtracked on his resolve to affix the army, having been a “barrack boy”.

 

The video, which appeared to have been taken down by Instagram after it was marked as “delicate content material”, confirmed an operative mentioned to be a common mendacity lifeless with a damaged leg.

 

“Proceed granting them [bandits] amnesty, as a result of they repented. Take a look at them shaming our Nigerian army and embarrassing everybody who has worn the Nigerian uniforms,” the comic wrote.

 

“Proceed holding conferences with them and listening to that Gumi man who says bandits are not bad people.

 

“However protesters are the issue. I’m right here, pondering, if I had continued on the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna and change into a common, that is how my nation would have let me be wasted like a vagabond.

 

“Most people who had been my course mates are actually generals.

“If the national assembly continues holding conferences, with out addressing this situation within the subsequent few days, then it is going to be clear there are folks in authorities who know these folks and are shielding them as is being speculated.

 

“This may by no means occur to any military of any country that knows what the army represents. Proceed to pay ransoms. Proceed to rehabilitate repentant bandits and Boko Haram members.

“A Nigerian military common? And the military let this go on for therefore lengthy? Did the police do that a lot earlier than barracks at Ojulegba had been burnt to the bottom? Don’t we know what the army does to anybody who touches their rank?”