Saturday, 31 May 2014
Prominent North East politician on campaign of calumny against Military – DHQ
The Defence Headquarters has alerted the nation of plot
by some interest groups to embark on a renewed
campaign aimed at attracting international
condemnation and indictment of the Nigerian military
and its operations in the Northern part of the country.
The campaign which is to rely heavily on doctored and
falsified audio visual materials, some of which are
already trending in the social media, is to be
coordinated and funded by a prominent political leader
whose state is presently under the State of Emergency.
Defence spokesman, Chris Olukolade, said the details
of the plan which is already being fine-tuned by a
group of media practitioners, is to be presented for the
final ratification and funding by the political figure.
The design is expected to forcefully whip up
sentiments of genocide allegedly targeted against a
particular religious group.
The planners of this multi-media crusade also hope to
use it to gain some mileage in the drive to secure
international attention as they have not achieved this
sufficiently despite previous efforts.
The programme which is also meant to reinforce the
ongoing media campaign against the military was
adopted as an alternative by those who are bent on
politicizing the ongoing counter terrorists operations
in the northern part of the country.
“It will be recalled that a newspaper, apparently testing
the waters, last week published some of the doctored
pictures which the Defence Headquarters instantly
repudiated, pointing out that they do not represent
activities or operations of the Nigerian military,” he
said,
“DHQ wishes to reiterate its rejection of pictures and
video footages from unverifiable sources claiming to
reflect activities or so called atrocities purportedly
perpetrated by Nigerian security forces.
“They do not reflect or depict the true state of affairs or
operations of Nigerian military or any of the security
forces. The public is advised to watch out and not
allow themselves to be hoodwinked by these acts of
infamy orchestrated by this desperate group.
“Once again, it must be emphasized that the dastardly
acts of terrorism are against all Nigerians and all peace
loving people all over the world. No amount of
propaganda by apologists of terror group can justify
the evil acts of terrorism by attempting to cast the
Nigerian military and security forces in bad light,”
concluded the statement.
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