Alleged Mass Abortion: Nigerian Army chief testifies as Human Rights Council continues investigation

The Nigerian Army has formally dismissed a Reuters report of alleged mass abortion carried out by the military on victims of Boko Haram terrorism in the North-east.

He denied the Reuters’ report of the abortion of 10,000 pregnancies, the massacre of children and other allegations of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against the army.Though the Nigerian military authorities had issued a statement to deny the story, Saturday was the first time Mr Yahaya would publicly react to the issue.

The report triggered global outrage with the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, calling on the Nigerian government to begin a thorough investigation and “immediate remedial actions and accountability measures.”Specifically, the panel is mandated to investigate the allegations of forced mass abortion on pregnant women by the troops of the Nigerian military, as revealed in the investigation by Reuters last December.

Speaking further, he said, “Maybe they don’t know we are operating under the government. The National Human Rights Commission follows what is being done in the military and what we are doing is internal operation; we are operating in our country. The army is Nigerian Army and we are not like Boko Haram that does not operate under code of conduct.”

Asked by the panel’s secretary, Hilary Ogbonna, to explain Reuters’ report that soldiers massacred many children perceived to have been fathered by Boko Haram, Mr Yahaya retorted, “This is laughable because even if there is stigma attached to such children, is it the army that will stop the stigma?”This newspaper reported that in February, the investigative panel began sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State, the epicentre of the Insurgency in North-east Nigeria.

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