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EXPOSED! Baga District Head Denies Death Figure. by silica(m): 6:14pm On Apr 30, 2013
E*X*P*O*S*E*D!
Baga District Head Denies Death Figure.
Kukawa LGA Chairman Not In Town when Attack happened.

It is shocking that the two prominent figures in Baga Town and Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno state and the claimed sources of the local and International Media, Red cross and local Politician claimed that gave them the death figures (185, 187, 238) and 2,000 and 4,000 Houses being destroyed, have claimed no knowledge of these figures and said that there is no mass grave in their District.

The District Head of Baga, Alhaji Babagana Zanna, denied knowledge of giving any death figure to any person or group on the day of the JTF counter attack on Boko haram.
Alhaji Babagana Zanna maintained that "I had not received any report of the said mass burial in my domain".

The Chairman, Kukawa Local Government Area, Alhaji Kone who was earlier quoted to have given some figures (185 deaths and mass grave), said he was not in the town during the incidence and as such does not know the number of civilians who died in the incident”.

NB: The Wind has blown and the Ass of the Cock is Exposed.
Re: EXPOSED! Baga District Head Denies Death Figure. by Nobody: 8:45pm On Apr 30, 2013
Breeze don blow, fowl yansh don open. WICKED LIARS will always be exposed
Re: EXPOSED! Baga District Head Denies Death Figure. by PointB: 9:26pm On Apr 30, 2013
Interesting.

I recall JTF saying a few thatched houses were burnt. I wonder where they got the 2000 figure from. Did they really know what it means to destroy 2000 houses? Some folks are born liars, they must be students of Lai.
Re: EXPOSED! Baga District Head Denies Death Figure. by Tigerhead: 9:41pm On Apr 30, 2013
Sincere 9gerian: Breeze don blow, fowl yansh don open. WICKED LIARS will always be exposed

Amen
Re: EXPOSED! Baga District Head Denies Death Figure. by mojounited(m): 10:14pm On Apr 30, 2013
Most of us knew this all along, it was just a gimmick and fallacious attempt by those boko haram sympathizers (known as local officials) to draw attention from international community. In the BBC news below, "The Red Cross has backed local officials who say the figure is higher but they have not been into the town." - which begs the question, HOW WAS THE RED CROSS ABLE TO ASCERTAIN THE NUMBER OF DEATHS AND HOUSES DESTROYED WHEN THEY NEVER SET FOOT INTO THE TOWN (BAGA) AFTER THE INCIDENT??

By the time the fictitious news hit the air/internet, the Military had simply restricted people from immediately entering the town for a basic reason of damage control...but normal activities was restored afterwards. Now, where is/are the (mass) graves? Can the red cross show us photos or video evidence to elucidate the damage done? #yada yada... angry

Baga clashes: Nigeria army seizes heavy weapons

Nigeria's army has said it seized rocket-propelled grenades during last week's fighting in Baga - believed to have been one of the first times Boko Haram has used heavy weapons.

It says 37 people were killed, while others maintain at least 185 died. The army says 30 members of the Boko Haram Islamist group, one soldier and six civilians died. The Red Cross has backed local officials who say the figure is higher but they have not been into the town.

An army statement said three rocket-propelled grenade launchers had been recovered, along with bomb-making material. The previous most deadly incident of the three-year Boko Haram uprising came last year when at least 160 people were killed in co-ordinated bomb attacks in the northern city of Kano.

The group is fighting to install Islamic law in the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22270648
Re: EXPOSED! Baga District Head Denies Death Figure. by Nobody: 10:23pm On Apr 30, 2013
mojounited: Most of us knew this all along, it was just a gimmick and fallacious attempt by those boko haram sympathizers (known as local officials) to draw attention from international community. In the BBC news below, "The Red Cross has backed local officials who say the figure is higher but they have not been into the town." - which begs the question, HOW WAS THE RED CROSS ABLE TO ASCERTAIN THE NUMBER OF DEATHS AND HOUSES DESTROYED WHEN THEY NEVER SET FOOT INTO THE TOWN (BAGA) AFTER THE INCIDENT??

Shame on BBC!

Shame on AFP!!

Shame on all the international media organisations that contributed to this grave mis-information!

Shame on Nigerian media organisations that broadcast unsubstantiated casualty figures!!

I always tell people that these western media organisations have sinister motives with regards to Nigeria. How did they arrive at a casualty figure of 185 deaths?

Almighty God will punish all the enemies of Nigeria
Re: EXPOSED! Baga District Head Denies Death Figure. by Emperor007: 10:34pm On Apr 30, 2013
Hmmmmm, the North + Western propaganda.





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Re: EXPOSED! Baga District Head Denies Death Figure. by gramci: 10:38pm On Apr 30, 2013
The baga incidence was a sham, no pictures,just spurious claims by the some desperate fellows to garner sympathy and to whittle down the good work of JTF.
Re: EXPOSED! Baga District Head Denies Death Figure. by Nobody: 10:49pm On Apr 30, 2013
Source please
Re: EXPOSED! Baga District Head Denies Death Figure. by mojounited(m): 10:59pm On Apr 30, 2013
JideJamez: Source please

Baga: Defence hqtrs challenges Borno State govt

No mass burial in domain

Responding to the enquiries of the team, the District Head of Baga, Alhaji Babagana Zanna, who was also accompanied by the Local Government Chairman Alhaji Kone, maintained that he had not received any report of the said mass burial in his domain. Also responding to the team, the Chairman, Kukawa Local Government Area, who was earlier quoted to have given some figures, said he was not in the town during the incidence and as such does not know the number of civilians who died in the incident”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/baga-defence-hqtrs-challenges-borno-state-govt/
Re: EXPOSED! Baga District Head Denies Death Figure. by MajorJ(m): 11:22pm On Apr 30, 2013
PDP has been exposed for the liars they are
Re: EXPOSED! Baga District Head Denies Death Figure. by mojounited(m): 11:32pm On Apr 30, 2013
MajorJ: PDP has been exposed for the liars they are

What has this got to do with PDP?? We're discussing an issue on national security of the nation and you're here spewing tuxedo about political sycophancy...#Kapish!

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