 The Nigerian army has the night claims that its personnel were collaborating with armed herdsmen and bandits to terrorize the eastern part of the country as well as Binu state. The army describes such claims as spurious and derogatory, in that smearing the image of the service. In a statement today by the Director of Army Public Relations Brigadier General Oye Manwachiku, the army said it would not succumb to intimidations by groups given these narratives.