Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, has accused the Cable News Network (CNN) and Al Jazeera of lying over the reportage of the alleged escape of the abducted Chibok girls.

Badeh, who took a swipe at the two foreign media houses on Friday, revealed that they made up stories about the abducted Chibok girls in May during their reporters visit to Nigeria.

The CDS made the accusation while speaking at a workshop on Security/Media Relations in Crisis Management in Abuja.

“We know Isha Sesay of CNN, (Nima) Elbagir of CNN and another one from Al Jazeera, interviewed the supposed Chibok girls that escaped; they were speaking Hausa and these are girls that were going to write SSCE. Those ones cannot be those Chibok girls. They didn’t show us their faces so that we will know. Certainly those were not the girls that were taken from that school,” Badeh said.

The Chief of Defence Staff, who cleared the air that the abducted girls have not been rescued also insisted that there were no going back on the death sentenced passed by a military tribunal on 12 soldiers that were found guilty of mutiny last month.

 “When we took the oath to become soldiers, we took oath to defend Nigeria with everything we have. Your own is to first obey. We condemned them to death. We did not make the laws. The National Assembly made the laws and it is there in the books. People are saying no you cannot do that, why won’t we do it?” he questioned.

Badeh hinted that following the reactions from Nigerians over the soldiers death penalty, the armed forces could resolve to holding field court martial in the bush, after which military personnel sentenced would be killed instantly and buried right there in the bush.