No Chadian Air Strikes Conducted In Nigeria – Defense Headquarters

The Defence Headquarters on Thursday

said the claim that the Chadian military

had conducted air strikes against six

terrorist camps in Nigeria was not

correct.

This is contained in a statement issued

in Abuja by the Director of Defence

Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade.

Olukolade said the fact was that the

Nigerian Airforce surveillance mission

identified targets tagged: Camp 6

around Bosso town which was not

within Nigerian territory “and alerted

the partners, accordingly’’.

He said the places reported to have

been struck by the Chadians were

therefore most likely to be in Niger

Republic and not Nigeria as widely

reported in the international media.

”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,” he said.

Olukolade said the Nigerian military

would 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.

He said it was however important that

issues were “accurately reported while

avoiding misleading or unnecessary

sensationalism from any quarter’
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