Nigeria’s Defence Chief General Lucky Irabor has said on Thursday that it will not investigate a Reuters report that the military ran a secret mass abortion program because it was not true.
Reuters reported on Wednesday (December 7) that the Nigerian Army has run a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast since at least 2013.
The programme has involved terminating at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, many of whom had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants, according to dozens of witness accounts and documentation reviewed by Reuters.