PRESS STATEMENT: REJOINDER TO INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING AND THE CABLE ONLINE NEWS MEDIUM’S MUDSLINGING AGAINST THE NIGERIAN ARMY

The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a 5 part campaign of calumny by “The Cable”, an online medium in which it serialized what they described as undercover story of how wounded soldiers were abandoned by the Nigerian Army, the government and the Nigerian society by reporters of International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR). This allegation is not true.

Apart from questioning the motive of the medium, it is pertinent to state that most of narrations were outright falsehood and calculated attempt to cause disaffection amongst personnel and create an impression that they care about the well being of troops more than the Nigerian Army, the government and the nation. This is far from the truth as they failed to update their previous knowledge and impression about the Nigerian Army, neither did they avail themselves the benefit of the current and true situation of things in the Service.