DHQ: NO CHADIAN AIR STRIKES CONDUCTED IN
NIGERIA
The claim that the Chadian military have conducted
air strikes against six terrorist camps in Nigeria is
not correct.
The fact is that 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. 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.
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
Major General Chris Olukolade
Director Defence Information
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