The Nigerian Air Force has denied reports that it’s operatives had located the missing girls of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok.

The Director, Public Relations and Information of the NAF, Group. Capt. Ayodele Famuyiwa, said in an electronic mail on Saturday that the claim misrepresented an interview he granted Channels Television on February 12, 2016.

According to him, what was said was that the NAF had the capacity to identify possible areas where the girls might be held.

Famuyiwa said that while the NAF had not identified the specific location of the missing secondary school girls who were abducted in April 20, 2014, the service had been working hard with surveillance aircraft covering a wide area in the search for the girls.

He said that the NAF would continue to contribute to the mission to degrade the capacity of the insurgents and to work towards finding the girls and other Nigerians held captive by the insurgents.

“The attention of the Nigerian Air Force has been drawn to a statement to the effect that the NAF has located the position of the Chibok girls. Please, let it be known that this statement is a misrepresentation of the interview that the NAF’s Director of Public Relations granted the Channels Television that was aired on Friday 12 February 2016.

“The NAF is hereby making it categorically clear that in the said interview the director made mention of the NAF’s ability to identify possible location that the girls might be in.

“Hence, the NAF wishes to categorically state that it has at no time identified the specific location of the Chibok girls. However, it is working round the clock with surveillance aircraft covering the over 157,000 km2 area of the North East in order to identify the position of not only the Chibok girls but other Nigerians that might have been held captives.

“Towards the realization of this goal, the NAF has from January 2016 till date using aircraft, ISR platforms such as ATR-42, B-350 and CH-3 UAV, flown surveillance missions totaling over 346 hours consuming about 85,887 litres of Jet A-1 and 3,830 litres of Mogas costing N15,337,862:50 and $19,150:00 respectively.

“Therefore, whilst the specific position of the Chibok girls is not yet ascertained by the NAF, we have not folded our arms on the surveillance flights and will continue to use these flights to degrade the capacity of the terrorists and as soon as possible locate the position of the Chibok girls and other Nigerians that are under captivity.” The statement read.

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These people are only approbating and reprobating.... Media is grounded under this administration, Shame !!!

hmmmm. wat do u expect 4rm a govt who's denial is d order of d day. na ftc material be dis I was close today.

Nigeria reporters feeding us with news ,,, this is y I don't. Believe some news

APC and denial are like bread and butter.

All of una no well. Stop raising hopes. May they be found by God's Grace. That's if they are really missing. Some said na lie. We don't know what to believe

This is d kind of things dat make pple wonder if d Chibok girls debacle ever happened at all

Apc sef

They dan come again!

Tired of the constant lies

I read the interview and there was no place they said they have located the place.... Nigerian press men needs to sit up jor

Possible locations identified suddenly misinterpreted is unfathomable.

Pls let's always report facts.

But na wa for Nigeria media. I no get time to waste time reading this

Jonathan sef

Nawah

Now that they have discountenance the news, it is high time lalasticlala and co move this thread to FP so that people (nairalanders) will know how junk journalism is selling like wild fire.
This is nothing but sensational journalism.

Nigeria now World HQ of media denial. Kudos to APC.

TheFreeOne:
I don't have Intel on the whereabout of chibok girls - Buhari

Chibok girls are gone forever, anyone telling you otherwise is lying - Obasanjo

We have identified possible locations of chibok girls - Nigeria Air force (said same before)

Bring back our girls - OBY & co.

Bewildered but hoping chibok girls will return - Nigerians

Discordant tunes whilst the cycle continues We hope not but time will tell.

Less than two days.....SMH for this govt.

Why spill your tactics on live television? Are you not putting the girls in danger - if there are any girls left

hehehehe

Whether "possible location or specific location" just find the girls simple.
God bless Nigeria.

Dat z their business.

Oh Christ. What sort of government is this always beating back and forth... .smh

Na wa oh.
Buhari and APC want to KILL us with their propaganda and LIES, chai


All Propaganda Congress, APC


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Government of lie and deceit..



Can I hear y'all say







We've been scammed

Lobatan

Here we go again with the back and forth.

I did not believe it in the first place.

lying is not corruption - lai Mohammed

Dirty and shameless damage control. Next time, don't bite more than you can chew.

Air Force my foot!