Lt. Akinyemi Temidayo, a fine officer, and gallant Officer of the Nigeria Army is no more. The deceased was a DSS officer of the Nigerian Defense Academy, was reported to have been killed in the war against Boko Haram some times in May, but the military authority kept this information away from his family.The officer updated his Whatsapp profile on the 12th of May, where he wrote:
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"O Lord, Order My Steps."
Since his last update on Whatsapp he has not responded to messages sent to him via Whatsapp, BBM or SMS.
It was so bad that his wife Modupe, who is his next of kin was not even contacted and informed about the tragedy which has befallen her. His wife found out that her husband is dead on social media, where she saw people using his picture as their profile photo with a R.I.P tag on it three days ago.
She was dazed and confused after seeing her husband's picture trending on social media with strangers paying condolence. She fell into coma when it dawn on her that her husband is dead and his friends and family don’t know anything about it.
At this juncture, friends and family started bombarding the Army Headquarters with severe questions addressed to "Whom it May Concern," to tell them what happened to Lt. Colonel Akinyemi.
The Army told the family to wait for a while to enable them get information from the battle field in Borno state. After 48 hours the sad news was broken to the family.
This is totally unacceptable and an embarrassment for the Military to treat the gentleman officer with impunity. Imagine a wife and next of kin finding out that her husband was killed in battle on social media? If his picture did not go viral on Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites, the story would have been buried and kept away from the family.
This is not the way to treat our heroes!
Since his last update on Whatsapp he has not responded to messages sent to him via Whatsapp, BBM or SMS.
It was so bad that his wife Modupe, who is his next of kin was not even contacted and informed about the tragedy which has befallen her. His wife found out that her husband is dead on social media, where she saw people using his picture as their profile photo with a R.I.P tag on it three days ago.
She was dazed and confused after seeing her husband's picture trending on social media with strangers paying condolence. She fell into coma when it dawn on her that her husband is dead and his friends and family don’t know anything about it.
At this juncture, friends and family started bombarding the Army Headquarters with severe questions addressed to "Whom it May Concern," to tell them what happened to Lt. Colonel Akinyemi.
The Army told the family to wait for a while to enable them get information from the battle field in Borno state. After 48 hours the sad news was broken to the family.
This is totally unacceptable and an embarrassment for the Military to treat the gentleman officer with impunity. Imagine a wife and next of kin finding out that her husband was killed in battle on social media? If his picture did not go viral on Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites, the story would have been buried and kept away from the family.
This is not the way to treat our heroes!
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