Reuters abortion claim is false, never happened CDS

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By CHIJIOKE OKORONKWO

General Lucky Irabor

ABUJA – The Chief of Defense Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, has said that Reuters’ allegation of the secret abortion program by the Nigerian army in the northeast is false and does not never happened.

Irabor dismissed the allegations Thursday in Abuja at the 61st State House briefing hosted by the Presidential Communications Team.

According to him, the military authorities are aware of the fact that there are extraterritorial elements which really do not want peace.

I am also aware that the war economy has affected a lot of people and so now that we are moving forward they think we have to go back to the status quo ante.

In any case, you said you interviewed 33 women over a period of how many years, from 2013 to date, and then you were able to conclude.

What kind of extrapolation is it, that from 33 women, 10,000 abortions were performed?

The defense chief said Reuters was seeking an interview with him, but his approach and false allegations did not merit a dignified response.

You (Reuters) say that the army has been engaged since 2013 in a planned abortion program and that it is the army that runs this program.

And then in that letter you also indicated that maybe it was part of the design of the governments.

He also said that in the letter requesting an interview, Reuters said 12,000 abortions had been performed but reported 10,000 on Wednesday.

Irabor said from the tone of Reuters’ letter, the news agency already had a mindset.

So since that was Reuters’ position, I didn’t think it was necessary for me to call them and engage because that’s downright nonsense.

In the report, my name was mentioned, that at some point I was in charge of operations, yes, of course I was.

In 2013 I was not in charge, I took over the operation in the North East in 2016, which I did until the end of 2017, almost two years, and there had other officers.

let me even confine myself to the time of my northeast direction, the hint they made is new to me, it never happened.

I have never seen anything like it from the center of the Giwa project to the cantonment of Maimalari where I lived and where we have the 7th division hospital, the main hospital for the treatment of our personnel and their families and especially the wounded.

The Chief of the Defense Staff said the media was fully engaged throughout the various operations against the insurgents.

The very essence of having such engagements was to say look, this war is real; the deaths and injuries inflicted on our military are real.

Please come and see; we need you to work with us and I’m glad it paid off, and that’s why today in the North East sanity has not only returned, we have continued to play our part.

Irabor said the military would not be deterred by the antics of those unhappy with peace in the Northeast.

The commander-in-chief has absolute confidence in what the military is doing, he added. (NOPE)

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