No Crocodile Tears II Medical Outreach in South-South – Army

BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Nigerian Army on Tuesday denied that some of its personnel are going round schools in Rivers State dressed in military camouflage with the intention of forcefully vaccinating students with an unknown substance.

It described the rumour as callous and unpatriotic lies being spread by those it described as “enemies of the State”, stressing that their action, to say the least, is despicable, deplorable and highly condemnable by all well-meaning Nigerians as they are intended to cause pandemonium among the general public.

A statement by the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Aminu Ilyasu said authorities of 6 Division of the Nigerian Army plans to undertake such gestures like free medical outreaches, sanitation exercises in host communities and distribution of educational materials as part of its community relations activities during the on-going Operation CROCODILE SMILE II.

According to Ilyasu; “These activities are yet to be conducted and will eventually be conducted with the consent of relevant authorities of designated communities and at venues and dates that will be duly communicated to the general public through future press releases and relevant posters.

“For the purpose of emphasis, the Nigerian Army does not and will never carry out its medical outreaches or vaccination exercises for that matter in Schools.

“We can therefore categorically inform the public that the on-going rumours about Nigerian Army personnel going round schools in military camouflage to forcefully immunize school children are not true and should therefore be discountenanced with.

“Additionally, members of the public are please requested to call 09072509436-8 to report any case of any impostor(s) that may be seen actually trying to commit such atrocities.”