The Nigeria army on their official Twitter handle tagged the report, concerning an internal army correspondence seen by The Gazette, titled: “COAS Special Order-01 Change to War Mode,” which directed soldiers deployed in ‘Operation Lafiya Dole — a special anti-terrorism combat squad — to treat all individuals in the troubled region as Boko Haram suspects until properly identified, as fake news.
“All persons must be treated as suspects unless fully identified and cleared especially in isolated, high threat areas, when on clearance operations and checkpoint duties,” November 20, 2020, the directive said.
“We are not in peacekeeping operations, internal security operations or deterrence actions,” the memo added. “This is real warfighting.”
A Twitter handles with the pseudonym, @OluwaEinstein Stated that the fake news tag is getting more stale and since one of dem turned out to be true… Why would I believe the rest ain’t true too?.
Another Twitter handle with the name Gabriel Esther said anything fake is real when it comes to Nigeria Army.
In today’s episode of “What is Fake?” the Nigerian army launched a new and improved #Fakenews stamp. This one is equipped with “Malicious”, a new type of literary missile. Tread here with caution dear citizens, @pdauda, tweeted.
“Why is it very hard for @HQNigerianArmy to be patriotic for once? You dunk each news then later admitted after a long investigation. If this is fake news, Why was 7 truck of soldiers with live ammunition deployed to a peaceful protest ground? Caused a lot casualty on camera?,” Oluwaseyi stated.
Another Twitter user, Chukwuemeka has stated that how do you expect me to believe that this news is a fake?? That’s how you tagged lekki massacre fake news. See eh truth be told, I have personally lost any form of trust for the Nigerian army
Before now, Nigeria army has been known for tagging any news against their sector as fake, this has made thousands of Nigeria to lost interest in their mode of service and operation.
It was recorded that they also tagged the Lekki massacre as fake news until the footage was released.