Colonel Sagir
Musa
Fake Video
Colonel Sagir
Musa
Fake Video of Execution of Soldiers Sponsored by
Outlawed IPOB- Army Spokesperson
The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a viral,
unsubstantiated and apparently fabricated video clip circulating on
the social media portraying the stage managed/so called capture and
killing of some Nigerian soldiers by Boko Haram terrorists on the
10th of December 2019.
The Nigerian Army wishes to emphatically state that there was no
incident that involved the “capture and killing of tens and tens of
Nigerian soldiers on the 10th of December 2019” as mischievously
and wickedly portrayed in the video.
Similarly, preliminary observation of the video clip (even by
the amateur) will reveal that the video was doctored and that the
entire events captured in the footage was not an occurrence that
took place at any point in time within the shores of Nigeria.
To this end the Nigerian Army is hereby calling on the members
of the general public and indeed personnel of the Nigerian Army
especially those in the North East theatre of operation to
disregard the sinister, very inciting and divisive video concocted
and peddled by the outlawed IPOB members whose main objective is
the disunity and fragmentation of Nigeria as clearly shown or
espoused in the video.
Accordingly, the call by one Simon Ekpa, (the principal actor in
the clip), calling on soldiers of South East extraction presently
serving in the North East to desert the Army and return to Biafra
as well as calling on South Easterners not to join the Nigerian
Army is an obvious indication of the essence and objective of the
masterminds of this fake video which should be dicountenanced by
the public.
Meanwhile the leadership of the Nigerian Army wish to also
reiterate its unflinching commitment to sustain the war against
terrorism and shall not be deterred by the evil machinations or
propagandist activities of mischievous persons whose main interest
is the disunity of our beloved nation.
SAGIR MUSA
Colonel
Acting Director Army Public Relations