The Nigerian Army rejects the statement by the Wall Street Journal that more than 1000 troops are secretly buried by the Buhari administration

The Nigerian Defense Headquarters (DHQ) has rejected allegations published by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that it has secretly buried over 1000 troops. 

We stated previously that the study admitted that, according to Nigerian troops, diplomats and a senior public official,' after dark, soldiers ' bodies are covertly transported from a mortuary that sometimes gets so crowded the bodies are delivered by truck. The corpses are placed in trenches created by infantrymen or local villagers paid a few bucks per change by flashlight.

The declaration issued by the Director of Defense Information Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, however, insisted that the "insinuation can only emanate from the uninformed situation of the author of the said publication." It further reads, "It must be unambiguously clarified that the Nigerian Armed Forces do not indulge in secret marriages, as it is sacrilegious and profane to the ethos and trading that still exists.

"The cemetery outlined in the Maimalari Military Cantonment paper is an formally designated Nigerian Armed Forces Military Cemetery in the North East Theater, with a cenotaph built in honor of our fallen heroes.

"It is therefore a cry far from Wall Street Journal's sacrilegious impression. Such a misinformed post and see it as a figment of the writer's imagination, whose understanding of ethos and traditions valued by the army is grossly misplaced."