A 39-year-old female soldier, Lance Corporal Philomena Nnamoko, who is desirous of leaving the service of the military has raised alarm about his mental health saying it is going south.
Nnamoko’s craving for exiting the military has been in the news with the authorities said to be standing in her way.
Currently serving at Ilese Barracks, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, she told Punchng that the military authorities’s stance has ill effect on her mental health saying, “I am gradually losing my mind, I am psychologically imbalanced, and people are saying they want to book me for AWOL. I cannot go through that torture again. I want to leave the service.
“The pain is too much. I want to be discharged from this job.
“The last letter I wrote was on December 11, 2022, and the last batch of those discharged was on July 28, 2023, but my name was not there. Even those who had just written theirs and submitted it in January and February were discharged.”
