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Major General Chris Olukolade
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May 17, 2015
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To the Leadership of Bring-Back-Our-Girl Group. I have followed your activities with due interest. I personally have nothing against your organisation or its advocacy concerning efforts to recover our girls from captivity of terrorists. I believe that someday, both your efforts and that of the Nigerian military will be duly understood and appreciated.

I feel constrained to call your attention to the existence and activities of charlatans in your midst who have never had the privilege of responsible service in public sector but are now keen to see everyone in position brought down to entertain their fancy and envy. It is very important to let your group know that it is being unduly influenced by one of your prominent members to pursue an agenda against the Nigerian military and the pursuit of his determined effort to assassinate my character. The fellow in question has been using both his personal social media platform and influence in your group to sustain a malicious campaign against my person, my office and the Nigerian military as a whole.

Suffice it to say that the hate campaign and attacks on me by this gentleman predates your bringbackourgirls campaign. Indeed, your campaign has only been adapted as an added platform for him to sustain his hatred. Somehow, he has succeeded in also infecting a number of known, unknown and anonymous characters who have joined him in using the social media platform to attack my person and other prominent individuals in the security circles in the name of seeking “the truth” on the war against terror.

I have to assure you that I am not the character that your medium has often been made to seek to present me. I have been nurtured and have very strong belief in integrity and character. I have all my life lived a God fearing and honest life and have no cause to be shady or dubious. I have the courage to own-up and revert or correct what I do in error as no man is infallible and this grace for courage can be attested to by many who know me well. Contrary to the impression being propagated about me by those who have been made to see me as a villain in our effort to defend our country and people, I am not given to the series of deception your group seem quick to attribute to me. Surely, my passion for honour and truth is an aspect of my character that all who have interacted with me casually and intimately will always be willing to testify about.

It is unfortunate that some have sought to equate our efforts to give accounts of activities on the nation’s war on terror as propaganda or cover up. This is not true. We know the difference. The fact is that the battle situation around could be very fluid and susceptible to rapid changes. The situations around the battle could also change accordingly in an inexplicable manner. This trend is also compounded by various perspectives that have been employed to seriously polarise the understanding of the situation along the line of all kinds of sentiments and biases prevailing in the environment. We cannot engage in a shouting match with those who have other motives. We can only try to explain situation to the best of our understanding and available information. The report we present on situation are based on the available information and observance of the elements of propriety, security, policy and accuracy which has remained our guiding principles. It is really not true as you have been made to assert repeatedly that the Defence Headquarters and myself are the only sources of information on the operation.

The sweeping judgement and insistence that we must do things in a particular way or your claim that we do not follow best practices as well as your remarks comparing our approach to that of other armies is very unfair. Indeed, you must know that no two military operations are the same, and the conduct must endeavour to reflect the realities and peculiarities being confronted in the field.

Your allegations or claim that we lack transparency is definitely not well informed neither is it being expressed in good faith. Be assured that nobody has been restrained from accessing the mission area in the ongoing operation except when there is clear case of undue interference with safety and operational environment. Infact, occasionally, we conduct the media on tour of the operational area.

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Our concern remains the issue of safety for anyone in search of information. Much as we want to assist genuine seekers of information we do not feel obliged to devout scarce resources to satisfying the fancy of pleasure seeking adventurers or the curious and mindless critics who just want to roam around with questionable motives. We should not be blackmailed into compromising the security of information and operations in the name of undefined idea of transparency.

We have strived to keep the populace informed in the best way possible in the circumstances we find ourselves. No one has been through this same path before we keep improving and seeking how to cope with the enormous challenges. You may recall that although it was in the line of duty, I was the first and perhaps the only military officer who against all odds have addressed your leadership and the group as a whole when you marched to the Defence Headquarters at the early stages of your campaign. I believe we had cordial interactions all through at that period. It is noteworthy that this gentleman, my sworn antagonist, was not present at that interactive meeting.

We really have no reason to engage in deception as your forum is always quick to allege apparently with a view to discrediting us and our efforts. Your assertion claiming that we have credibility problem is only in the imagination of those pursuing the hate campaign against us. It is definitely not in the view of the generality of the populace who still trust, depend on and utilise the outcome of all our efforts to inform the public on the counter terrorism campaign. The ceaseless criticism we continue to get from you has been so uncharitable and could ordinarily be discouraging.

We however derive a lot of inspiration from the appreciation and commendation we keep getting from other well meaning individuals and organisations who continue to urge us on. The patriot and God fearing person in us will not yield to blackmail and malicious criticism of those using the platform of your otherwise noble organisation, to run us down and plan on how to disgrace us in the pursuit of an agenda to humiliate and ridicule the Nigerian Armed Forces.

Being in the forefront of the efforts to disseminate information is a job I do with passion and sense of responsibility. I do not deserve the hatred and mindless antagonism your organisation has continued to unleash on me. I certainly have a life out of here and it is unfair to work purely for the purpose of destroying my reputation and years of committed and unblemished record of service to my country. Despite the regular focus and disdainful reference to all communication from me as prompted by those who are so determined to ruin other people’s name and career, I have maintained the restraint required of me both by training and upbringing.
Indeed, I am also conscious of the enormous power you wield. The belief is that your organisation has the determination to ruin the name, career, and reputation of some targeted military officers among whom I have been specifically marked for such cruel treatment. I can only leave such matter to God and the good judgement of people who read or hear you. I am so sure I will enjoy the blessing of being vindicated at last.

Meanwhile, I wish your team will consider my point here and spare me and the Nigerian military the undue attacks we have continued to be subjected to in the name of monitoring or calling for accountability. We call for fairness as against the present campaign that is fraught with calumny and promotion of one man’s malice against us and anything government.
I will not be surprised if this appeal draws more or fresh vitriol from your organisation especially at the prompting of the hawks in your midst who are the disciples of that prominent member and proponent of the malicious campaign. This is more likely considering the determination and unhidden hatred of those who have been acting with a view to drawing me out for a street fight. I can assure you that I will not react or join issues under whatever provocation. I will be leaving all such sworn enemies to their conscience and God if they believe in Him at all.

To you as an organisation, please save your platform from being used to perpetrate this injustice as inspired by the prominent and phony member of your BringBackOurGirls campaign. Indeed, there is still room for more meaningful and robust engagement or interface between you and the government and security agencies in the drive to secure the return of our girls. Enough of undue hate campaign and antagonism.

Thank you.

Major General Chris Olukolade id the Director Defence Information. He addressed this letter to the Leadership of Bring Back Our Girls Group.

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