Nigeria: Military - 'Actionable Intelligence' From U.S. On Chibok Girls Belated, Unrealistic

3 January 2015

Abuja — The military has strongly rejected a report by New York Times that it failed to act on Pentagon's "actionable intelligence" from drone flights on information that might have indicated the location of some of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, saying some of the actionable intelligence were "belated or are clearly unrealistic or evidently with suspicious intentions."

The Director of Defence Information (DDI) Maj-Gen. Chris Olukolade, in a telephone interview with THISDAY on Friday, said all intelligence properly communicated from all genuinely interested sources and partners had always been duly utilised in the operations to locate and rescue the Chibok girls abducted in April by the terrorist Boko Haram sect.

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