CDS denies evacuating family before Boko Haram attacked hometown in Adamawa

Contrary to a misinformation that has gone viral on cyberspace, Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh has said he never sent any helicopter to his home town in Adamawa State to evacuate members of his family hours before the fall of the town to Boko Haram terrorists.
A statement posted on the blog of Nigerian Defence headquarters today referred to a publication asserting that Badeh sent a military helicopter to evacuate members of his family just a few hours before the fall of his home town to Boko Haram terrorists.
It further urged mass media practitioners to desist from lifting unsubstantiated items “from social media and bloggers who often do not know the difference between beer parlour gossip and news.”

Titled “No Helicopter Evacuated the CDS Family Members”, full details of the statement reads:
“The attention of the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has been drawn to an article with the caption, ‘The Helicopters that evacuated CDS Badeh’s family from Mubi: A lesson for All Nigerians’ written by a certain Elvis Iyorngurum and posted in an on-line news outlet, NewsRescue.com on the 6th of November, 2014.
“The said article which contained strings of deliberate falsehood and spurious allegations claimed that few hours before the attack on Mubi by the terrorists, the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal AS Badeh flew in helicopters and evacuated his family from the town and abandoned everyone else to their fate.
“While the DHQ remains at a loss as to the motive for these unconscionable fabrications, it is pertinent to quickly repudiate the false claim and to state clearly that at no time did the CDS send any helicopter to evacuate any of his family members before, during or after the attack on his home town.