Military says groups plan to discredit it with ' Faked ' visual materials

 The Defense headquarters in Nigeria says it has been alerted to a plot by some interest groups to start a renewed campaign, aimed at attracting international condemnation and indictment of the Nigerian Army and its activities in the North.

In a statement said the army spokesman, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, that "the campaign, which is to rely heavily on counterfeit and counterfeit audio visual materials, some of which are already in the social media trend, will be coordinated and funded by a prominent political leader whose country is currently under emergency rule is".

"The details of the plan that has been prepared by a group of media practitioners, should be presented for final ratification and financing by the political figure.

"The design is expected to be powerful whip up feelings of genocide allegedly directed against a particular religious group.

"The planners of this crusade multimedia also hope to use to get some kilometers in the drive to have reached international attention if they fail to secure enough despite previous attempts," the statement read.

According to Maj. Gen. Olukolade, the program was also intended to strengthen the ongoing media campaign against the army.

He said that it was adopted as an "alternative by those who are bent on the ongoing counter terrorist operations in the northern part of politicising the country".

"A newspaper, apparently testing the waters, last week published some of doctored photos that rejected defense Headquarters directly, pointing out that they do not represent do activities or operations of the Nigerian Army," said Army Maj. Gen. Olukolade, rejection of the images and video footages to repeat.

He said the video, claims of activities or alleged atrocities by Nigerian security forces, was apparently committed by uncontrollable sources.

"They do not reflect or represent the real state of things or activities of Nigerian military or one of the security forces," he said.

He further emphasized that terrorist attacks against all Nigerians and all peace-loving people around the world were, noting that no amount of propaganda by apologists of terror group tries to eject the Nigerian military and security forces in bad light could justify the evil acts of terrorism.

The military spokesman, before that, advised the public to watch out and not let be charmed by the deeds of shame orchestrated by the group which he described as ' desperate '.