NIGERIA ARMY : Clarification On The Press Release Titled WARNING TO MISCHIEF MAKERS BENT IN PERPETUATING TERRORISM

According to a press release made available by the Nigeria Army through Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman Acting Director Army Public Relations has made a clear clarification on the warning and accusation made against some people camouflaging under the umbrella of NGOs to undermined the fight against terrorist in the north eastern Nigeria.

The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to observations and concerns by well meaning Nigerians especially the Borno Elders Leaders of Thought (BELT) about the misinterpretations of the warning.
Therefore, it becomes necessary to clarify to the effect that the statement released yesterday does not refer to the leaders of BELT or majority of the good people and law abiding prominent citizens of Borno State. I neither mention any organization's or individual's name. However, the warning was to inform a specific group of people
whose activities are imminical to our collective quest for peace as enumerated in the release.

At this point, it is important to observe that what is required at this crucial period is for everyone to rally round the Federal Government to bring to a speedy end the wanton destruction of lives and properties by the Boko Haram insurgency.

We believe that the Borno Elders and Leaders of Thought cannot hold any clandestine meetings and therefore as a responsible organisation the Nigerian Army holds them in high esteem. We however wish to reiterate unequivocally that the Nigerian Army has credible information that certain individuals and groups are losing out of the successes being achieved and therefore want to discredit the renewed fight against Boko Haram. We would not tolerate nor allow them to actualize their nefarious intents.

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