You can tweet on social issues. But do not tweet about our locations, equipment, weapons and ammunition. I urge you to desist from reporting the army
Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah has cautioned the army against using the social media such as Tweeter and Facebook to reveal military equipment, location and ammunition, stressing that such development could be inimical to prosecution of the war against insurgents.
Minimah gave the warning while addressing members of the 149 Battalion, Ojo Cantonment, Lagos State, in continuation of his familiarisation tour of military formations in 81 Division.
“One trend that is also dangerous to the service we all cherish is the misuse of the social media. I urge you to be careful of social media. Those of you that like to use Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms to report the army as if you are not part of the system, stop it. What you do not know is that you have been undoing the systems that you are part of.
“You can tweet on social issues. But do not tweet about our locations, equipment, weapons and ammunition. I urge you to desist from reporting the army,” he warned.
On welfare of the army personnel, he said under his watch the authority has been able to pay operational allowances upfront even before the normal time of payment.
“We have been trying to pay allowances on time. Everybody who is entitled to any form of allowances is being paid promptly. In Zaman Lafia, OP Restore Peace, Pulo Shield Task Force in Jos, everybody is being paid upfront. We are still in July, and we have been paying operational allowances upfront. There is no where this is practiced all over the world; where you are paid upfront,” General Minimah explained.
He said he has stopped attempt to increase school fees for students in Army Children School adding that military personnel who are injured in war front have been catered for medically in Nigeria and abroad.
