Bose Adelakun |
The Nigerian Army on Thursday denied that bandit kingpin, Turji Bello, captured one of its Armoured Personnel Carriers.
The army was reacting to a viral video on social media showing that the bandit leader captured an APC purportedly belonging to the Nigerian Army.
In a statement on Thursday, the Director Army Public Relations, Brig. General Onyema Nwachukwu, said the video was fabricated.
The statement partly read, “The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a viral unsubstantiated and apparently fabricated video clip circulating on the social media, portraying stage-managed capture of Nigerian Army Armoured Personnel Carrier by Turji Bello, one of the infamous terrorists’ leaders in North West Nigeria.
“The Army wishes to emphatically state that there was no such incident that involved the capture of any of its APCs within the theatre of operations in the North-West, as mischievously and falsely portrayed in the video. ”
