One Samuel Adeleke has been arraigned before an Ojo magistrates court in Lagos for allegedly impersonating a military officer.
MeWap Maigida,
an air commodore and acting director of information at DHQ, cited the provisions of the constitution on the matter, noting that anyone found culpable is liable for prosecution. “Section 251 of the constitution states that ‘any person who, not being a person serving in any of the armed or police forces of Nigeria, wears the uniform of any of these forces, or any dress having the appearance or bearing any of the regimental or other distinctive marks of any such uniform, in such manner or in such circumstances as to be likely to bring contempt on that uniform, or employs any other person so to wear such uniform or dress, is guilty of a simple offence, and is liable...
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