barcanista: This is one reason i am advocating that Payment of Soldiers should be made by the Ministry of Defence or Finance. The Military hierarchy should focus on other areas.

chucky234: Generals are doing nothing to help the soldiers, FG asked the generals to pay the fighting soldiers N3000 daily but you wont believe they are been paid N500 daily.

chucky234: Generals are doing nothing to help the soldiers, [/b]FG asked the generals to pay the fighting soldiers N3000 daily but you wont believe they are been paid N500 daily[b].

C0llynz0ii:
To be honest, I don't expect them to flush out the terrorists with the current defensive tactics they are using, only an all out war will do that. It is also unfortunate that the terrorists kidnapped those girls to use as human shield, I don't know how the military plans to go about that. This thing should have been done long before those girls were kidnapped, but the politicians and the ''genocide accusers'' didn't allow that to happen, see where it has led us.
They might have to choose between 200 girls and tens of thousands of people dying at the end...

Mutuwa:

What do u expect when DEMO CRAZY has opened their eyes to abundance of money which during their regime they had some esteem for.The now ryde in BMW's compared to d days they drove in 504 S.R (dilapidated one for that matter).Their eye don open with money and deep regards for greed.

chucky234: He called me some weeks back and was complaining about the poor and inadequate amunition given to them, in Liberia and Sierra Leone was more than enough bullets for them to fight with but here they are given 30 to 60 bullets each day.
The current Commander in Chief, GEJ is not helping the nation, just 45 solidiers engaged 300 insurgents in a fiearce gun battle for 2 whole hours yet no land or air backup.
The soldiers fought till they ran out of bullets yet didnt run away but chose to die, this country is not worth dying for.

Mutuwa:

What do u expect when DEMO CRAZY has opened their eyes to abundance of money which during their regime they had some esteem for.The now ryde in BMW's compared to d days they drove in 504 S.R (dilapidated one for that matter).Their eye don open with money and deep regards for greed.

chucky234: My father who is one of the senior officers attached to the 3 Division of the special force in Damaturu who were ambushed of the 27th day of July.
The soldiers were attacked based on info supplied to them by moles in the army, they were surrounded but decided to fight and die galantly and put up a fierce fight with the insurgents for 2hrs until the were out of amunition and was shot by the insurgents who were more than three hundred in number.
My father gave up the ghost on the 30th of July due to multiple gunshots sustained, until his death he was one of the bravest and finest soldiers to have graced the Nigeria army.
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He was due to retire in January 2015 but he chose to fight and die for his fatherland, the master of MPG and heavy weapons.
149 Battalion, 3 Division and the entire Nigeria Army has lost one of its bravest and fearless soldier.
He spent four years fighting in Liberia and three years in Sierra Leone as one of the Nigeria contigents to ECOMOG.
He also spent three years in Bakasi civil war, one year in Ivory Coast, three years in Bayelsa/Warri as part of the JTF to curb militants activities in the Niger Delta.
He spent two years in Borno/Yobe fighting the Boko Haram menace, he was giving a national burial along with other fallen heroes today in Bauchi state..
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MAY HIS GENTLE SOUL REST IN PEACE.

rollykotex: Come to think of it,is Nigeria really worth dying for?? Just thinking out loud

chucky234: He called me some weeks back and was complaining about the poor and inadequate amunition given to them, in Liberia and Sierra Leone was more than enough bullets for them to fight with but here they are given 30 to 60 bullets each day.
The current Commander in Chief, GEJ is not helping the nation, just 45 solidiers engaged 300 insurgents in a fiearce gun battle for 2 whole hours yet no land or air backup.

chucky234: He called me some weeks back and was complaining about the poor and inadequate amunition given to them, in Liberia and Sierra Leone was more than enough bullets for them to fight with but here they are given 30 to 60 bullets each day.
The current Commander in Chief, GEJ is not helping the nation, just 45 solidiers engaged 300 insurgents in a fiearce gun battle for 2 whole hours yet no land or air backup.
The soldiers fought till they ran out of bullets yet didnt run away but chose to die, this country is not worth dying for.

seaman007: 30 to 60 bullet for each soilder
whc is 30 multiply by 45
Is 1350 bullet


45 trained soldier won't shoot aimlessly
I rest my case

Sincere9gerian: Meanwhile, it appears the current service chiefs are confused? Or is it just a mere coincidence that Boko Haram attacks increased significantly under their watch?

Jakumo:

Your late father was an incredibly patriotic and brave African warrior, Chuck, and your summary of his tours of duty is at once inspirational, breath-taking and humbling to learn about from the man's own son.

Chuck, you walk tall in the footprints of a great, fighting bull-elephant, who proudly bore the scars of many a battle waged to protect Mother Africa, before taking one final heroic stand against overwhelming odds, giving no quarter to the enemy until he could fight no more. A soldier and rifleman to the very last shot fired.

Nigeria, Africa and the entire free world collectively owe the greatest measure of human gratitude to fallen and surviving protectors of what is right, decent and fair about the human condition. Your father, and all other Nigerian fighting men and women who have made the supreme sacrifice to roll back the invading forces of evil, will be recalled with somber reverence by many, many generations beyond the current one.

With a heavy heart, I bid a fond and immeasurably grateful farewell to a giant and a gladiator, whose feats of combat bravery were revealed to us only today, yet which we appreciate with every living cell of our being.

seaman007: 30 to 60 bullet for each soilder
whc is 30 multiply by 45
Is 1350 bullet


45 trained soldier won't shoot aimlessly
I rest my case

brownlord:

How about GEJ tell us who the sponsors are, this alone will cut off financial support of BH and also create problems in their camp?

How Boko Haram is beating U.S. efforts to choke its financing

Tue, Jul 01 07:24 AM EDT

By Phil Stewart and Lesley Wroughton

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Washington imposed sanctions in June 2012 on Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, he dismissed it as an empty gesture.

Two years later, Shekau’s skepticism appears well founded: his Islamic militant group is now the biggest security threat to Africa's top oil producer, is richer than ever, more violent and its abductions of women and children continue with impunity.

As the United States, Nigeria and others struggle to track and choke off its funding, Reuters interviews with more than a dozen current and former U.S. officials who closely follow Boko Haram provide the most complete picture to date of how the group finances its activities.

Central to the militant group’s approach includes using hard-to-track human couriers to move cash, relying on local funding sources and engaging in only limited financial relationships with other extremists groups. It also has reaped millions from high-profile kidnappings.

"Our suspicions are that they are surviving on very lucrative criminal activities that involve kidnappings," U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield said in an interview.

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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0F636920140701?irpc=932

iconize: @Chucky, I'm deeply touched by your story. Please accept my condolence.

chucky234: Generals are doing nothing..., FG asked the generals to pay the fighting soldiers N3000 daily but you wont believe they are been paid N500 daily.

chucky234: Where have you been bro, its been a long time.
My father's spirit will not rest until the boko haram is wiped out, that was his mission.

Sincere9gerian: May God bless his soul.

Meanwhile, how can the military exterminate the moles in its midst? Except that is done, this war may not end soon

Abagworo: I've been deeply touched by your story and I appeal to you to accept my condolence and have that heart to forgive those whose inaction and incompetence has led to this quagmire. The God in heaven knows best.