Nigerian Army threatens to deal with operatives using social media to engage authorities

The Nigerian Army threatened to deal with any operatives caught using social media to engage the authorities.

Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Mohammed Yerima stated this in his reaction to a story being circulated in the social media about rejection of the Proposed Nigerian Army Welfare Housing Scheme (NAWHS).

Yerima said members of the Nigerian Army had established mechanisms of responding to administrative issues, and resort to social media was not one of them.

“The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to the referenced story being circulated in the social media and the following is our response which is simply to disabuse the minds of members of the general public.

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“That the signatories who claimed to be writing on behalf of NA soldiers are fictitious names and numbers which are non-existent in the Nigerian Army records.

“That the current Chief of Army Staff met an Army Housing Scheme in the pipeline and constituted a Committee to under study its feasibility and desireability.

“Questionnaire was subsequently designed by the Committee for soldiers to bare their minds on the scheme and to ascertain those who are interested in it. It was still at this stage of administering the questionnaire to soldiers that agent provocateurs seized the moment to demonize the scheme with toxic narratives.

“That members of the Nigerian Army have established mechanisms of responding to administrative issues and resort to social media is not one of them. Any personnel caught using social media to engage the authorities will be severely dealt with,” the statement read.

The Director Army Public Relations added that it was curious that a scheme meant to benefit soldiers and families could be so flagrantly twisted in the social media using names and numbers that were alien to the Nigerian Army.

He said the motive for this kind of strange act would ultimately be uncovered.