Femi Adesina, Anna Cunningham and Phil Hazlewood
While speaking during a Channels Television programme "Politics
Today", Femi Adesina, the Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity
to President Muhammadu Buhari, claimed that the military does not or
rarely disclose the figure of its casualties globally.
Adesina who was reacting to criticisms of Nigerians over the
failure of the nation's military and the presidency to disclose the
number of soldiers killed during the latest attack by Boko Haram
terrorists in Borno, said:
"All over the world, the military does not or rarely disclose the figure of its casualties", Femi Adesina was quoted to have said on Channels TV.
In a swift reaction, a foreign freelance journalist based in
Nigeria, Anna Cunningham and AFP's Abuja bureau chief, Phil Hazlewood,
both dismissed Adesina's claims.
Cunningham and Hazlewood debunked the presidential aide's claim as
the journalists went on to tweet links of where British, American,
Canadian and Australian military publish the names of their fallen
heroes.
Cunningham also responded to a follower who said the links she
provided are memorial/ archive lists not names of those published as
they become casualty on war front.
She tweeted: “I have reported on the funerals of soldiers who
died in Iraq and Afghanistan. The media were invited to cover the
funeral services. Those deaths were made known by the MOD with
permission from next of kin.”
See their tweets below;
Really @FemAdesina @channelstv ? Here is the list British military fatalities list available from the government https://t.co/YUC2jKBVtQ & here is the US list https://t.co/89vbxA7nD7 & the French https://t.co/g4WcyDYvc9 https://t.co/thPqHOJrdr
— Anna Cunningham (@journo_anna) November 25, 2018
Canada https://t.co/nd1s9ALoTX Australia https://t.co/60VZ6UtDbR UN peacekeeping operations https://t.co/sCnuxejXcI
— Phil Hazlewood (@philhazlewood) November 25, 2018
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