Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters has frowned at comments by its officers regarding plans to rescue the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls.
Consequently, DHQ has warned them to stop speaking on details and efforts, especially tactics, being deployed for operations.
Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. John Agim, said this yesterday after service chiefs visited the Theatre Command and Control Centre, Maiduguri, to review the ongoing military operations, particularly the operation to free the pupils.
Agim disclosed that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has solicited for the co-operation of the media and all stakeholders in the ongoing operation to rescue the abducted girls.
He lamented the revelation that that the military have employed the services of fishermen and farmers.
Head of counter-insurgency operation in the North East (Operation Lafiya Dole), Maj. Gen. Rogers Nicholas, had made the disclosure while speaking at the inauguration of helipad, office complex and residential quarters for officers and airmen at the newly established 171 Nigerian Air Force Detachment in Monguno town.
Agim said: “These speculations in view of Buratai can jeopardise the operations and endanger the lives of the abducted schoolgirls, as well as all those involved in the operations.
“While the military is soliciting for useful information from the general public, it has not singled out fishermen and farmers for this assistance to rescue the abducted girls who are between the ages of 11 and 19.
“Rather, the military is asking for anybody who had useful information for this purpose. What we would be doing henceforth is to limit the way the publicised strategies used.
“We rather want to discuss and communicate the successes of the rescue operations, rather than talking about the already adopted strategies.”
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