A spokesman for the
Nigeria military has dismissed as mischievous a video uploaded on YouTube
yesterday, and widely-shared on social media, showing Nigerian soldiers begging
for food and water.
BBC News report continues:
The
privately owned Daily Trust newspaper quoted a statement by Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka
Usman as saying that the video was six months old.
The
army unit had enough water supply but it had been concealed by one a soldiers
who had since been "charged and punished", he added.
The
video also shows several soldiers lying on the ground with their colleagues
fanning them:
Brig
Usman said the video was shot by an army unit during an operation in
north-eastern Borno state, which has been badly hit by militant Islamist group
Boko Haram's insurgency.
He
questioned the timing of the video's release:
It is disheartening that some mischievous elements have decided to circulate it now, creating the false impression that it is a recent occurrence"
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