Beheaded Airforce Pilot: This is How the Airforce and DHQ Spokespersons Contradicted themselves

Asked directly about whether the man was an air force pilot, as claimed, spokesman Air Commodore Dele Alonge told AP: “The man shown in the Boko Haram video is not our officer.

“The picture of a man beheaded in the video is superimposed,” he said without elaborating. “Our plane is still missing and we are looking for it. Boko Haram is just making unfounded claims.”

But when the same question was thrown at defence spokesman, Major General Chris Olukolade, he said something a bit different.

According to Olukolade, “No level or amount of barbaric display of bestial atrocities will distract the Nigerian military from sustaining the tempo of ongoing operations to decimate, degrade and bring the remnants of the terrorists already in disarray to due justice. The campaign against terror is still recording the expected result in the front. Nigerians should not despair,” Olukolade said in a text message that was repeated on his Twitter account. He insisted that the military believed that the jet crashed due to bad weather condition.

The question now is if Airforce spokesman, Air Commodore Dele Alonge “Our plane is still missing and we are looking for it. Boko Haram is just making unfounded claims,” how did Olukolade come to the conclusion that the jet was downed by bad weather and not Boko Haram?

This statement also conflicts that of one security analyst who tracks the conflict, where he stated that the Alpha jet sent a signal that it had been hit and the two pilots’ families met air force officers in the days that followed and were told it had crashed.