By Pascal Ibe

Claim

An X user, @chukwudibiafra9, published a video showing a Nigerian policeman weeping over hardship and claimed it was current.

Verdict

This claim is MISLEADING. Reports revealed that this was a video of a police sergeant lamenting the suffering of security agents deployed to fight insurgents in Yobe State in 2021.

Full Text

An X user, @chukwudibiafra9, has posted a video of a Nigerian policeman weeping over hardship and claimed it was current.

The X user shared the video with a caption that reads, “E DON CAST!… POLICEMAN BREAKDOWN IN TEARS DUE TO HARDSHIP🤷‍♂️
THIS IS WHAT NIGERIA 🇳🇬 GOVERNMENT AND HER ARMED FORCES WANT IGBO YOUTHS TO JOIN. IT’S A PITY.

Many users who commented on the X post by @chukwudibiafra9 believed this to be a current video. One of the people wrote, “It’s finished…….if a force man can cry like this…..rain is coming

The post generated over 27k views with hundreds of reposts and likes on the X platform.

Nairaland also posted this video on Friday.

Verification

When a keyword search on Google was conducted by this Fact Checker, results showed that this video first appeared online in June 2021.

Corroborating this further, Punch reported in 2021 that the police sergeant lamented the suffering of security agents deployed to fight insurgents in Yobe State, calling on the government to come to their rescue.

The sergeant, in a video posted on Twitter, claimed that there was an attack on his base in Gujba, Yobe State, on June 17, adding that several policemen were killed.

He noted that the Boko Haram members burnt the property of those who survived the attack, wondering why their sacrifice was not reciprocated by the government.

The cop was filmed by a colleague, while another officer tried to salvage the leftover of their burnt property.

It was gathered the Nigerian police authorities didn’t react to the video in 2021.

Many Facebook pages and blogs also posted this video in 2021 here, here, and here.

Conclusion

The X user recirculated the 2021 video showing policemen weeping over hardship as recent to mislead the public.