{"id":2852,"date":"2017-06-05T13:08:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2017-06-05T13:08:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T13:08:44","slug":"army-denies-buratai-accused-agencies-of-waste-infighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=2852","title":{"rendered":"Army denies Buratai accused agencies of waste, infighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release.<br \/>\nBy <strong>Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman<\/strong>,\u00a0Director Army Public Relations<br \/>\nThe attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to an online publication of The Nation Newspaper a few days ago, \u00a0titled &#8220;N\u2019East: Buratai accuses humanitarian agencies of waste, infighting&#8221; which was attributed to the Chief of Army Staff. In it, it was alleged that he leveled allegations against the United Nations (UN) humanitarian agencies and some Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) operating in the north east of sabotaging the fight against terrorism and insurgency.<br \/>\nThis is incorrect and misrepresentation of facts and does not reflect the position of the Chief of Army Staff and indeed the Nigerian Army.<br \/>\nAs a matter of fact, the Nigerian Army has been in good working and cordial relationship with all the UN agencies and the NGOs in our country.<br \/>\nThe reported allegation was a result of research work \u00a0and quotation from news report of a Nigerian news medium that the presenter quoted but reported out of context and without proper attribution to the original source.<br \/>\nWe wish to state unequivocally that we appreciate the role of the UN, its agencies and all the NGOs operating in the north east as they contribute immeasurably in alleviating the plight of the Internally Displaced Persons.<br \/>\nWe would therefore continue to support and assist them in any way possible in the discharge of their legitimate humanitarian duties.<br \/>\nYou are kindly requested to disseminate this information to the public through your medium.<br \/>\nThank you for your kind cooperation.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release. By Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman,\u00a0Director Army Public Relations The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to an online publication of The Nation Newspaper a few days ago, \u00a0titled &#8220;N\u2019East: Buratai accuses humanitarian agencies of waste, infighting&#8221; which was attributed to the Chief of Army Staff. In it, it was alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}