The Nigerian Army has debunked reports of alleged corruption and negligence of welfare of troops fighting Boko Haram and other criminal elements in the North East.
This was contained in a press statement signed by the Acting Deputy Director Army Public Relations, 7 Division Nigerian Army, Major Adamu Umar which was made available to our Correspondent in Abuja.
He said, “The attention of 7 Division Nigerian Army has been drawn to an online malicious and misinforming report published by an online medium on 22 December 2022 against the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Waidi Shaibu.
“The Division hereby wishes to state that the report is false, untrue and misleading and will respond to the contents without joining issues with the anti-establishment agent.
“Analyzing the contents of the malignant report, it is obvious that the so called source was spiteful for having missed out of the recent special promotion exercise and the allegations shows smack of ignorance on all issues raised therein.
“Hence the response of the Division will be educative in outlook and align with that of luminary minds like Anthony Kennedy who posited that the remedy for false speech is a speech that is true while the response to an uninformed article is the enlightened piece and to a straight out lie is a simple truth.
“Firstly, the so called uninformed source raised the issue of lopsided promotion and special promotion which according to his limited understanding do not have any criteria such as trade, courses or date of last promotion. The simple truth is that promotion of soldiers in the Nigerian Army is done in line with the Nigerian Army Administrative Policies and Procedures 2015 (Revised) as stipulated in Chapter 7 (pages 31 to 33).
“Secondly, the misguided source alleged lack of drugs at 7 Division Hospital. This is far from the truth, as 7 Division Medical Service and Hospital is well equipped with contemporary medical facilities and is being managed by professional military and civil medical doctors with adequate drugs administered to all patients. Unknown to the unapprised source, the Division has a monitoring and transparent feedback mechanism for ensuring drugs are properly administered at the hospital.
“Finally, the Division wishes to assure the general public that it will continue to uphold the high standards for which it is known and will not be distracted by unscrupulous misinformation campaigns orchestrated by anti-establishment agents. We therefore urge well-meaning Nigerians to disregard the campaign of calumny and continue to support the Division in its fight against the insurgency in the North East.” Major Umar stated.