Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed made a statement about the Nigerian troops fighting the Boko Haram in the North-East are fighting them with sophisticated equipment purchased by the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
However, while on air this morning, Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Rabe Abubakar spoke the truth about the matter.
He said “What I know is that we are using equipment which is okay for us. We have been achieving results. What I know is that we have equipment that can take us to where we are going…However, you cannot say you have everything you need for your operations. Even the developed nations’ Armed Forces lack one thing or the other,” Abubakar said.
Gen. Abubakar has also assured that efforts being made to rescue the abducted Chibok schoolgirls would not be in vain.
He said: “In the course of our operations, a lot of persons who hitherto we didn’t know, were rescued by the Armed Forces. So, fundamentally, what I’m saying is that inasmuch as our effort is still ongoing by the level of momentum we are putting in now, we are hopeful.
“I believe rescuing the Chibok girls is one of the targets that we set for ourselves. And I believe that with what we have done and what we are set to do, we will rescue any captive with the insurgents, not only the Chibok girls … We are extremely searching for not only the Chibok girls, but any other captive. It is just a matter of time,” he said.