(FILES) -- A file photo taken on June 5, 2013 shows Nigerian soldiers patrolling in the north of Borno state close to a Islamist extremist group Boko Haram former camp near Maiduguri. Nigeria's military on June 8, 2015 said it had begun shifting the command centre for its battle against Boko Haram from the capital to Maiduguri in the northeast, following a directive from President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari announced the move in his inaugural speech on May 29, saying the Islamist insurgents would not be defeated until military command and control was transferred to the city at the heart of the uprising. "A reconnaissance and advance team for the establishment of Military Command and Control Centre (MCCC) for OPERATION ZAMAN LAFIYA for the fight against terrorism and insurgency has moved to Maiduguri," an army statement said. AFP PHOTO / Quentin LeboucherQuentin Leboucher/AFP/Getty Images
The Nigerian military shocked the citizens of the country by declaring that it lacked the capacity to protect all schools in the Northeast of the country through its Acting Director of Defence Information, Brig.Gen. John Agim.
This was to a put a lie to a claim by the Yobe state governor Ibrahim Geidam that the military withdrew troops from Dapchi barely a week to an attack on Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, leading to the kidnap of 110 girls by Boko Haram.
Geidam on Saturday blamed the military for the abduction of the 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi when his Borno State counterpart, Kashim Shettima paid him a visit.
“I blame the whole attack on Dapchi on the military and the defence headquarters who withdrew troops from Dapchi. The attack occurred barely a week after the military withdrew the soldiers from there,” Geidam told Shettima.
But Brig.Gen. Agim told an online medium on Sunday night that Dapchi had no military presence at all prior to the attack.
Agim disclosed that the closest military formation was 30 kilometres away, but declined to mention the location of the troops.
He added that the governor and other Nigerians should know that the military lacks the capacity to protect all the schools in the region.
Sources revealed that Boko Haram insurgents drove 200km to Dapchi to kidnap those school girls.
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