Nigeria’s War on Insurgency Under-Reported – Presidency

The Presidency has expressed that the Nigerian Government is winning the war against insurgency but it is being under-reported.

According to Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina, in an interview on ARISE News on Monday said the Nigerian media under-report the country’s war against insurgency.

He, however, commended the Nigerian military for flushing insurgents, bandits, and other criminal elements out of their hideouts in Borno and other parts of the North East.

Adesina revealed that an ambush was laid by the military against insurgents, but was reported as an attack on the military without mention of what the insurgents suffered.

“Two weeks ago, there was an attempt to seize military formation in Marte, Borno state. If you seek to know what happened in Marte, you will give kudos to our military,” Adesina said.

“They allowed the insurgents to come in and the insurgents just suddenly found themselves in an ambush and they decimated them completely, took out all their gun trucks, about six or seven gun trucks. Do you know that that thing did not gain traction in the media?

“Those that reported it said the insurgents attacked the military formation, they didn’t say what the military did to them. That’s a practical example of under-reporting what happens even in the anti-insurgency war.

“You find out that when the insurgents seem to have made gains it’s played up, but when our military fights back and gains ground, people don’t seem to hear about it. It is not reported even online they don’t celebrate it.”