Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Air Chief Marshal Alex
Badeh, has accused the Cable News Network (CNN) and Al Jazeera of lying
over the reportage of the alleged escape of the abducted Chibok girls.
Badeh, who took a swipe at the two foreign media houses on Friday,
revealed that they made up stories about the abducted Chibok girls in
May during their reporters visit to Nigeria.
The CDS made the accusation while speaking at a workshop on Security/Media Relations in Crisis Management in Abuja.
“We know Isha Sesay of CNN, (Nima) Elbagir of CNN and another one
from Al Jazeera, interviewed the supposed Chibok girls that escaped;
they were speaking Hausa and these are girls that were going to write
SSCE. Those ones cannot be those Chibok girls. They didn’t show us their
faces so that we will know. Certainly those were not the girls that
were taken from that school,” Badeh said.
The Chief of Defence Staff, who cleared the air that the abducted girls
have not been rescued also insisted that there were no going back on the
death sentenced passed by a military tribunal on 12 soldiers that were
found guilty of mutiny last month.
“When we took the oath to become soldiers, we took oath to defend
Nigeria with everything we have. Your own is to first obey. We
condemned them to death. We did not make the laws. The National Assembly
made the laws and it is there in the books. People are saying no you
cannot do that, why won’t we do it?” he questioned.
Badeh hinted that following the reactions from Nigerians over the
soldiers death penalty, the armed forces could resolve to holding field
court martial in the bush, after which military personnel sentenced
would be killed instantly and buried right there in the bush,It would be recalled that on April 14, 2014, over 234 school girls
were kidnapped from Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok,
Borno State, by members of the dreaded terrorist group, Boko Haram after
they sacked the community.
The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh on
October 9, 2014, warned Nigerians of the presence of ‘fifth columnists’
in the military, which he claims caused the conflicting information coming out in recent times
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