The Nigerian Army has dismissed report by an online medium alleging corruption, nepotism, ethnic and religious bigotry within the Nigerian Army (NA).
The director, Army public relations, Brig.-Gen Onyema Nwachukwu in a statement described the report as mischievous and systematic smear campaign by the medium aimed at inciting troops, heating up the polity and distabilizing the country.
He said the report was at a total variance with the virtues and symbol of national unity, which the NA and indeed the Armed Forces of Nigeria represent.
The Army spokesman added that the report also contained some unimaginable slurs targeted at denigrating and demonizing the procedure for the selection of competent troops for Peace Support Operations (PSO), which has over the years earned the NA very well deserved encomiums and enviable status in the comity of nations in global defence, as a professional, hard-fighting, and disciplined institution.
He reiterated that the report depicts a delusional perception and an “abysmal bereftment of the slightest clue on routine processes of deployment exercises in the NA”.
The statement added that the report aims to incite mayhem and breakdown of law and order in a concerted effort to engender violence and destabilize the nation, through devious desperate and self-serving machinations.
“It is expedient to state that the real intention or otherwise of the infamous online media in publishing such toxic concoctions at this critical period is targeted at causing disaffection within a united and formidable military.
“It is clear that deliberate falsehood and noxious narratives orchestrated by the online media were to adorn the Nigerian Army in an unfitting garb of infamy calculated to whip up unnecessary aspersion to distract the NA,” he said.
