Navy orders arrest of its personnel that tortured a man to death, but that’s not enough

It is certainly good news that the Navy has ordered the arrest of its personnel involved in the torture of a civilian guard in a deadly jungle justice incident. The guard died from the torture.

The Command Information Officer, Western Naval Command, Lagos, Commodore Tom Otuji, told Punch correspondent on Saturday that the Force had ordered the arrest of the two men.

But this is not enough. The navy personnel have been involved in many cases of gross human right abuses and atrocities. Why do these continue to happen? It only means that the navy itself has never taken the issue of human rights seriously. They need to have a program for teaching and training their personnel on human rights issues to prevent this sort of incident.

Finally, the police should get involved in this case for the purpose of investigating the civilian who hired the navy personnel to torture the guard.