The Defence Headquarters on Wednesday said there is no truth in some media reports that the Boko Haram sect has taken over some villages in Borno State and also hoisted its flags in such villages.
The Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade, who made the clarification while briefing journalists at the National Information Management Centre, Abuja, maintained that security forces would never allow such situation to happen.
He said, “I have read the report also, but I can tell you that military as security agency will not allow any strange flag to be hoisted in any part of the country.
“It our duty to defend the territorial integrity of this country, and we will not allow any portion of this country to hoist strange flag and be sure that such plan will not succeed.”
The insurgents, according to a report, on Monday hoisted Boko Haram flag in Ashigashiya ward and other hilly border villages with Cameroon Republic.
The gunmen invaded Chinene, a border community with Cameroon Republic, at about 2.00am on Tuesday and opened fire on sleeping residents, killing eight people, including an old woman in her 80s.
BH had already taken over the whole of Borno state, we know. It's therefore logically true if the Press said a village had been taken over by BH, so the military and FG should own up to this fact and stop lying.
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