Defence Headquarters on Thursday said the claim that Chadian military conducted air strikes against six terrorist camps in Nigeria is not correct.
Major General Chris Olukolade, Director Defence Information, in a statement said the Nigerian Airforce surveillance mission identified targets tagged as Camp 6 around Bosso town which is not within Nigeria’s territory and alerted the partners accordingly.
He noted that the places reported to have been struck by the Chadians are, therefore, most likely to be in Niger Republic and not Nigeria as widely reported in the international media.
Continuing he said, “although the terms of the multilateral and bilateral understanding with partners in the war against terror allow some degree of hot pursuit against the terrorists, the territory of Nigeria has not been violated as insinuated in the reports circulated in some foreign media.
“The Nigerian military will continue to cooperate with partners in the mission to exterminate or contain terrorists strictly in conformity with existing terms of the Concept of Operation at strategic, operational or tactical levels.
“It is, however, important that issues are accurately reported while avoiding misleading or unnecessary sensationalism from any quarter”.
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