After facts emerged on last Tuesday attacks with close to 50 people dead and a video released by Boko Haram of three staff of University of Maiduguri captured in the ambush, the Nigerian Army has regretted her earlier statement which claimed the rescue of all Staff of NNPC and UNIMAID involved in the ambush attack.

A group of geologists from the University of Maiduguri and some support staff of the institution and security operatives and some staff of NNPC working on oil exploration in Lake Chad region were ambushed and abducted by Boko Haram gunmen in Borno Yesu.

The attack which was initially kept under wraps until media enquiries compelled the army to issued a statement after 24hrs informing that 9 soldiers were killed in the attack.

Vice Chancellor of University of Maiduguri, Abubakar Njodi had accused the army of misleading the public with claims of rescue when the Petroleum ministry and the Minister of Education paid him condolences in his office in Maiduguri.

He informed that none of his staff were rescued, adding that five of his staff were brought into Maiduguri dead, just as the Minister of State Petroleum Mr. Ibe Kachukwu said he could not as well verify the rescue of his staff as claimed by the army.

It turned out that Boko Haram released a video on Friday in which three staff of UNIMAID appeared calling on the federal government to secure their release from the hands of Boko Haram.

The Army Spokesman Brig. Gen Sani Usman in a fresh Statement issued on Saturday night said the earlier misleading statement was regrettable.

He said more corpses comprising five soldiers, 11 Civilian-JTF and five explorations workers, and some immunizations have been further recovered by military search and rescue operation going on in the area