Nigeria: Conflicting Information On Insurgency

The recent recant by the Director of Defence Information, Chris Olukolade, on the number of rescued female students that were abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State has further cast ugly glare at the reliability of the information from the security authorities over the sectarian insurgency in the Northeast of Nigeria.

There is no gainsaying that the country looks up to the Nigerian armed forces that is contending with the insurgents directly to provide authentic information about matters arising from their efforts at repelling and disarming the insurgents and bringing the insurgency to an end. It is therefore worrisome that frequently the information from the defence authorities turn out not to be factual.

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