Army speaks on social media story of Aso Rock conspiracy in Dapchi schoolgirls kidnap

The Nigerian Army has reacted to a story making the rounds on social media about the abduction and return of some schoolgirls from Dapchi, Yobe State.

A story circulating on social media claims that the abduction of the girls, was a plan hatched and sponsored by occupants of Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of political power.

The story quoted one Sergeant David Bako, a deserter, who claimed to have been a member of the team that carried out the plan, which he said was sponsored with N70 million.

But the army in a statement by its Director of Public Relations, Brigadier General Texas Chukwu stated that the story was a creation of mischief makers on a fake website to discredit the military and the government.

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The statement read in part, “the attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a news report making round on Facebook and other social media to smear and drag the Nigerian Army into politics of calumny by mischief makers, that one deserted Sergeant David Bako leaks how Dapchi Girls abduction was planned in the villa and executed with N80 million.

“The information was said to be provided by Sergeant David Bako who claimed to be deserted soldier and one of the abductee of the Dapchi School Girls. The Nigerian Army therefore put the record straight that it has crosscheck it records and cannot find any one call Sergeant David Bako who neither serves in the Army, deserted or dismissed.

“The Nigerian Army therefore disassociate 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.

“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. Open Source Intelligence reveals that the website Dailyglobewatch.eu with country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .eu used in publishing stories 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.

“However, it is really worrisome to 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”.

 

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