No Helicopter Evacuated CDS’ Family Before Attack – DHQ

Contrary to social media report, the Defence Headquarters has said that the chief of defence staff, (SDS) Alex Badeh never sent any helicopter to his hometown in Adamawa State to evacuate members of his family hours before the fall of the town to Boko Haram terrorists.
It, therefore, urged media practitioners to desist from lifting unsubstantiated items from the social media and bloggers who often do not know the difference between gossips and news.
A statement posted on the blog of the Nigerian Defence Headquarters (http://defenceinfo.mil.ng/) yesterday denied one of publications on November 6, 2014, by an online medium alleging that Badeh sent a military helicopter to evacuate members of his family just a few hours before the fall of his hometown to Boko Haram terrorists.
The statement reads in part The attention of the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has been drawn to an article with the caption, “The Helicopters that evacuated CDS Badeh’s family from Mubi: A Lesson for All Nigerians”, The said article which contained strings of deliberate falsehood and spurious allegations claimed that few hours before the attack on Mubi by the terrorists, Badeh flew in helicopters and evacuated his family from the town and abandoned everyone else to their fate.
“While the DHQ remains at a loss as to the motive of these unconscionable fabrications, it is pertinent to quickly repudiate the false claim and to state clearly that at no time did the CDS send any helicopter to evacuate any of his family members before, during or after the attack on his hometown. Contrary to the claims by the author, the helicopter that flew to Mubi was on an operational mission to reinforce the ground troops in preparation of efforts to repel the attack. The helicopter did not convey any civilian or relation of the CDS as was disdainfully insinuated in the article.”