Defence Headquarters yesterday asked Nigerians to discountenance the latest video by the Boko Haram terrorists group saying the clip showing 15 girls will not in anyway hamper its offensive against the terrorists.
The DHQ says the video
was a ploy to distract the military and security agencies from carrying on the
good work of flushing out the terrorists from the country.
Acting director,
Defence information Brigadier-General Abubakar Rabe told Daily Sun in Abuja:
“This is the era of social media and anybody can do anything.”
While confirming that
the military has seen the video clip, he said: “In as much as we saw it, nobody
can give an authentication. Secondly, we are not even bothered about that clip
because we are focusing on our operations and not the video and we don’t want
to in anyway be dragged into media war with these terrorists. What we are doing
is physical war, champion the course of this fight and finish it quickly. And
more so, this is something that they showed only 15 girls and we are talking
about over 200 girls and they are showing us only 15; so that gives some little
doubts.
“But whatever it is, we
are not bothered because it cannot impact in anyway in our operations. It’s
just like somebody who is dying, you know he can do anything to remain alive.
So whether we believe the video or not is not important, the most important
thing is that it doesn’t have any impact on our operations. We will go on with
our operations not to rescue only the Chibok girls but every person who has
been captured because in recent times we have rescued so many captives.”
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