Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur BurataiThe Nigerian Army has alerted members of the Nigerian public to beware of the information warfare which social media had since embarked on to smear the integrity and reputation of some individuals and public institutions.
´It is imperative to know that these baseless and inane allegations are not new in the cyber space, knowing the fact that we are in the age of information warfare.”
Reacting to a news report in social media that one deserted Sergeant David Bako leakd how Dapchi Girls abduction was planned in the villa and executed with N80 million, the Nigerian Army said that it has crosschecked its records and cannot find any one call Sergeant David Bako who neither serves in the Army, deserted nor dismissed. It said that an Intelligence source reveals that the website, Dailyglobewatch.eu with country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .eu used in publishing the said story, is obviously fake and therefore not correct.
“Based on our findings, the website was registered on the 14 of April 2017 and the last updated was on the same date and will expire on the 14th April 2018. We are very familiar with reports of this nature and will advice the general public to disregard such claim and desist from sharing such information on the New Media as this is against the Nigerian Cybercrime Act 2015.
“The Nigerian Army therefore disassociates itself with such fictitious report and request the public to disregard the confession made by the so call Sergeant David Bako who has not been in the Army at all.”
In a statement today, by the Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Texas Chukwu, the Nigerian Army expressed worry over the level at which some people could condescend so low to fabricate facetious allegation against the Nigerian Army and the military at large for cheap political gains or simply an act of pure wickedness, thus the public should disregard such facetious allegation.
“The Nigerian Army wishes to reiterate its commitment to remain apolitical and non-partisan in the discharge of its constitutional roles. We would also like to reaffirm our unconditional support and obedience to civil authority as well as reassuring Nigerians that these Fifth columnists will not succeed in their mischief as they will be fished out and dealt with accordingly.” [myad]
