While it has caused a stir on so­cial me­dia, a video clip of sol­dier and ra­dio per­son­al­i­ty Nigel Joseph alias Tom­my Shmur­da is at least three years old, ac­cord­ing to a De­fence Force source.

The video, which sur­faced on a so­cial me­dia news ac­count ear­li­er this week, was be­lieved to be ex­tract­ed from an­oth­er video that was streamed live on one of his so­cial me­dia ac­counts.

In the video, Joseph was wear­ing his Reg­i­ment uni­form and ap­peared to be en­cour­ag­ing young women to give him sex­u­al favours in ex­change for suc­cess.

“You don’t have to go to school and sit down in the class and lis­ten to lec­ture and do group project.

“Give me your front and you will be suc­cess­ful, so yes they lie down for Tom­my.”

The video prompt­ed a let­ter from one woman who urged Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge and Chief of De­fence Staff Air Vice Mar­shall Dar­ryl Daniel to ad­dress the mat­ter.

In the let­ter, the woman urged that the mat­ter be ad­dressed with ur­gency, not­ing that it was un­be­com­ing of a serv­ing sol­dier.

“Such con­duct has no place with­in our De­fence Force, an in­sti­tu­tion that should em­body in­tegri­ty, re­spect and re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.”

In sev­er­al so­cial me­dia sto­ries, Joseph said the video clips did not fair­ly re­flect the en­tire re­marks and were clipped to stir con­tro­ver­sy.

He al­so replied to the orig­i­nal post on In­sta­gram de­fend­ing the com­ments.

“Peo­ple who wasn’t on my live com­ing to com­ment not know­ing why I said this smh (shak­ing my head.)

“Out of all the pos­i­tiv­i­ty I now preach, what, what alyuh post.”

A De­fence Force source, who asked not to be named, told Guardian Me­dia that a pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tion was con­duct­ed and the video was one of sev­er­al videos that arose be­cause of an al­ter­ca­tion be­tween Joseph and two women.

The source al­so not­ed that some­one got ac­cess to one of Joseph’s so­cial me­dia ac­counts where they “al­tered and re­post­ed” sev­er­al videos from a fake ac­count.

“No video was post­ed on any of the so­cial me­dia han­dles of the sol­der,” the source dis­closed.

Guardian Me­dia at­tempt­ed to con­tact Alexan­der and Sturge on the mat­ter yes­ter­day but were un­suc­cess­ful.