The Defence Headquarters has denied that military suffered crucial losses in the ongoing war against terror because of operational, logistic and tactical blunders.
The Director of Defence Information (DDI), Brig-Gen. Chris Olukolade in a statement, said that a report titled, “War on Insurgency: Operational Blunders, Poor Supplies Causing Military Losses,” was incorrect.
In the report, operational blunder, obsolete weapons and under-stocked armouries are some of the major reasons identified as the military challenges to fight insecurity and “apparent inability to end the Boko Haram insurgency”.
He said: "This fiction and distortion of facts in the above story has once again exposed the tendency of a desperate section of the media to attribute fictitious stories to a non-existent ‘defence sources’.
"There is nothing professional, in-depth or objective in fabricating stories and attributing them to the usually unidentified but ubiquitous so called ‘Defence sources’, all in an attempt to make more sales or create wrong impressions about the military system".
"The Defence Headquarters wishes to emphatically state that the information contained in these reports did not emanate from any credible or authentic source within the Defence Headquarters or the military establishment as claimed by the writers of that story," he advised.
He advised the media to confirm information before spreading them, saying professionalism demands an extra effort to clarify issues before going to press.
DDI urged members of the public to discountenance the such reports attributed to "these spurious and unknown defence sources as they do not represent the fact about the situation in the military or the ongoing operations".
The Director of Defence Information (DDI), Brig-Gen. Chris Olukolade in a statement, said that a report titled, “War on Insurgency: Operational Blunders, Poor Supplies Causing Military Losses,” was incorrect.
In the report, operational blunder, obsolete weapons and under-stocked armouries are some of the major reasons identified as the military challenges to fight insecurity and “apparent inability to end the Boko Haram insurgency”.
He said: "This fiction and distortion of facts in the above story has once again exposed the tendency of a desperate section of the media to attribute fictitious stories to a non-existent ‘defence sources’.
"There is nothing professional, in-depth or objective in fabricating stories and attributing them to the usually unidentified but ubiquitous so called ‘Defence sources’, all in an attempt to make more sales or create wrong impressions about the military system".
"The Defence Headquarters wishes to emphatically state that the information contained in these reports did not emanate from any credible or authentic source within the Defence Headquarters or the military establishment as claimed by the writers of that story," he advised.
He advised the media to confirm information before spreading them, saying professionalism demands an extra effort to clarify issues before going to press.
DDI urged members of the public to discountenance the such reports attributed to "these spurious and unknown defence sources as they do not represent the fact about the situation in the military or the ongoing operations".
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