The Defence Headquarters on Tuesday faulted claims that the Cameroonian air force aircraft launched any airstrike on Nigeria’s territory.
There were reports Monday that Cameroonian airforce bombed the deadly Boko Haram militants’s base in the northeast of Nigeria.
The DHQ in a post on its twitter handle said that the air strikes that killed Boko Haram terrorists in the said confrontation at the Nigerian divide of the border town with Cameroon was carried out by Nigerian Airforce fighter aircraft.
The military said it will investigate the source of the information claiming that the air strikes were carried out by a foreign air force.
Cameroon’s minister of information, Issa Tchiroma had in a statement, said the coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Boko Haram fighters, adding that the group’s campaign to carve out an Islamic Caliphate has spread from North East Nigeria to neighbouring Cameroon.
He said also President Paul Biya ordered air strikes to flush out Boko Haram terrorists’ from Northern Cameroon.
Major General, Chris Olukolade, Defence spokesman, said that the “ongoing highly coordinated air operation is being conducted by the Nigeria Air force. No indication of any Foreign Force engaging in any part of Nigeria. We will investigate claims of Airstrikes by a Foreign Force on our Soil. This serves to satisfy peddlers of strange claims and stories”
Continuing, Olukolade asked, “What could be the motive of Foreign Media outfits peddling false/exaggerated claims of a neighboring Army’s exploits on Nigerian soil?”
