OUR SOLDIERS ARE NOT MISSING - SAYS NIGERIAN ARMY CHIEF

According to the Vanguard reports, in Abuja the Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Tukur Buratai has waved aside reports that, about 105 Soldiers prosecuting the war against Book Haram terrorists were missing, or had met with their untimely deaths when they failed to return in a bid to annihilate the terrorists in the North East of Nigeria.

General Buratai was reported to have had a telephone conversation with Vanguard were he said;

"It is not true that our soldiers are missing. The soldiers went on a mission for the Nigerian nation, and have since returned and joined their Battalions".

The confident Chief of Army Staff said that, the insinuation that the soldiers were missing, is a fragment of the imagination of the authors of the story.

However, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has yesterday along with other media outlets related the news on the alledged missing soldiers almost about the same time as the Nigerian Army Chief was reported to have refuted the claims.