The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has dismissed as empty blabbing a threat by a former militant leader in the Niger Delta, Asari Dokubo, that he would shoot down a military plane.
The ex-agitator had in a video, said he could bring down a military plane on a surveillance mission near his house during last weekend’s local council election in Rivers State.
He said the aircraft was trying to intimidate him because of his support for the election.
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However, the Director of Defence Media Operations, Edward Buba, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, dismissed Dokubo’s threat as “laughable.”
He said the ex-militant leader lacks the power to challenge the military or shoot down its aircraft.
The spokesman pointed out that various security agencies use aircraft and helicopters for national security purposes.
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