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Nigerian soldiers have been accused of arresting men with dreadlocks and those with tinted hair in Aba, a city in the south-eastern state of Abia.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe masked soldiers flogged many of their victims and used scissors to cut off the hair and then threw the victims into their vehicles and zoomed off,\u201d eyewitnesses told\u00a0Punch newspaper.<\/p>\n
The men were reportedly then taken to an \u201cunknown destination\u201d over the weekend.<\/p>\n
An army spokesman, Major Aliu Kadiri, confirmed to the News Agency of Nigeria that the army was aware of the incident, and were \u201cworking on it\u201d.<\/p>\n
It is not clear if the \u201chair-cutting\u201d arrests are linked to anti-kidnapping operations being conducted by security agencies across the country.<\/p>\n
Nigeria\u2019s army is also involved in an operation targeting cattle thieves and the Islamist insurgency in the north-east.<\/p>\n
This is not the first time Nigeria\u2019s security agencies have focused on those with dreadlocks.<\/p>\n
In March, a police unit targeting gangs shot dead a bystander in Lagos, the country\u2019s commercial hub, after a scuffle ensued when they went to arrest a man wearing dreadlocks in a bar.<\/p>\n
A police spokesman told BBC Pidgin at the time that people with \u201cdreadlocks and tattoos\u201d have a \u201chigh chance of arrest\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nigerian soldiers have been accused of arresting men with dreadlocks and those with tinted hair in Aba, a city in the south-eastern state of Abia. \u201cThe masked soldiers flogged many of their victims and used scissors to cut off the hair and then threw the victims into their vehicles and zoomed off,\u201d eyewitnesses told\u00a0Punch newspaper. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":667623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle"],"yoast_head":"\n
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