Nigeria contradicts US claim on huge electronic materials ‘captured’ from terrorists
A Nigerian military spokesperson has contradicted the claim made by a top US official that a ‘large haul’ of electronic materials was seized from terrorists in Nigeria and extracted from the country by US forces.
Nigeria’s Director of Defence Information, Samalia Uba, told PREMIUM TIMES that the intelligence cache was not seized by US authorities from terrorists but voluntarily released to the US by the Nigerian government as part of an ongoing security cooperation.
PREMIUM TIMES reported that the US Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council, Sebastian Gorka, disclosed in late June that American forces had recovered a large cache of electronic materials from terrorists in Nigeria.
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