According to Punch newspaper, the Nigerian Army has redeployed its Director of Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Olajide Laleye.
Laleye’s redeployment was said to be routine and part of regular redeployment and postings of officers by the leadership of the Army.
A security source told Punch shortly after the monthly meeting of the Forum of Security and Response Agencies in Abuja at the Rock View Hotel, Abuja, that the director of army public relations had been deployed to Benin as the Commander in charge of the 4th Brigade of the Nigerian Army.
Laleye would neither confirm nor deny his new posting on Wednesday, The Punch reported.
When our correspondent contacted the Army spokesman on the telephone, he said that the Army would come out with a formal position on postings within the service later.
“The Army would make a formal reaction on redeployments within the service later,” he said.