Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters
(DHQ) has urged Nigerians to disregard allegations about the spread of
Monkeypox through military medical outreach.
Director of Defence Information,
Major General John Enenche, in a statement on Saturday explained that the
medical exercise in the South East was a normal medical operation that had been
replicated in other parts of the country.
He said the Armed Forces of
Nigeria has been in the global best military practice of impacting on the lives
of Nigerians through medical outreaches.
“In this regard, quick impact
medical outreaches are usually conducted during deliberate operations such as
the war against insurgency and terrorism in the North East and routine training
exercise like Egwu Eke II in the South East among others” the statement read.
“Particularly, the Nigerian Army
on several occasions as afore-stated carried out medical outreaches in
virtually all the geo-political zones of Nigeria without any observation in the
past.
“The same goes for the Nigerian
Navy that does same during all its exercises in southern parts of the country.
Similarly, Nigerian Air Force is equally in the limelight of medical outreaches
including victims of natural disasters all over the country.
“Categorically, the practice of
reaching out to the general public medically is akin to the key task of
securing the lives and property of Nigerians. Therefore, it has and can never
be done with ulterior motive.
“Nigerians should be assured
that, the Armed Forces of Nigeria will continue to carry out its
all-encompassing constitutional responsibility of ‘national security’ of which
health security is inclusive.
“From the above, and in specific
terms, the campaign of calumny against the Nigerian Army regarding the outbreak
of Monkeypox should be disregarded.”
“It is the machination of the
usual mischievous and disgruntled human gongs, who are always in the business
of blackmailing the Military for their myopic selfish interests.
“The Defence Headquarters hereby
assures the general public of its commitment to genuine and sincere medical
outreaches by members of the Armed Forces as it were.
“This is in view of the positive
impact it has had on the local populace in Nigeria. All insinuations regarding
medical outreaches by the Nigerian Army, Navy and Air Force in the country
should be disregarded”, Enenche added.
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