The Nigerian army, operating beneath 81 Division, has prevented a suicide attack by a woman articular as Mrs. Francesca Spark from killing herself afterwards she jumped into the Lagos Lagoon.
The Army fabricated this accepted in a account appear on Monday morning by the Acting Deputy Director of Army Public Relations, Lieutenant Colonel Olabisi Olalekan Ayeni.
Ayeni acclaimed that the woman plunged into the lagoon about 81 Division Officers’ Mess, Marina Lagos.
“The troops of 65 Army NA deployed at the Officers’ Mess, who sighted Mrs Spark bound acclimated their aggressive littoral abilities and adeptness to accomplishment her. She was accustomed aboriginal aid and counterbalanced by the army medical team. Afterwards stabilization, the ancestors was contacted and she was handed over to her husband, one Mr Spark Oghene Ovie residing at Awoyaya Lagos,” the account partly read.
The General Officer Commanding of the 81 Division, Major General Muhammed Takuti Usman, commended the soldiers for actuality advertent and for their ingenuity, courage, and gallantry.
The GOC said he is admiring that soldiers brought their training in adversity administration to buck in such a analytical bearings that could accept claimed the activity of a adolescent citizen.
Maj Gen Usman emphasised the acceptation of aggressive operations conducted during emergencies or accustomed disasters.
He accepted that troops accept undergone all-encompassing training to accommodate abutment to arch agencies in times of crisis.
He additionally assured association of the army’s adherence to attention the abundance and assets of bounded residents, decidedly in times of crisis.