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Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by msmon(m): 3:19am On Sep 06, 2014 |
on september 04, 2014 at 8:15 pm in news By Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Joseph Erunke ABUJA - AS the Boko Haram insurgents continue to have upper hand in the North East, the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh has revealed that for the country to win the war against terrorism, there was the need for diplomatic lobbying for foreign assistance in areas of equipment. But the Senator representing Kaduna Central, Senator Mohammed Saleh said it was impossible for the military to win the terrorism war with the present obsolete equipment and the alleged fraud in Ministry of Defence and the Military Service. Meanwhile, Senator Saleh has said that after the Gideon Okar coup of 1990 during the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, the military was systematically and comprehensively disarmed which now makes it impossible for the army to effectively confront any external aggression. Speaking at the National Assembly Joint Committee on Defence Thursday, the Chief of Defence Staff said that since the declaration of state of emergency in the three North East states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, the Armed Forces had been engaged in a sustained operations against the terrorists. According to Air Marshal Badeh, “In the last one month, troops have sustained on-going offensive operations both in and outside seven division areas of operation to shape the theatre, establish fighting positions and limiting Boko Haram freedom of movement within the area of operation. “Significantly, troupes are currently carrying out unlimited offensive operations aimed at denying Boko haram freedom of action and from achieving its aim to isolate and control areas around Maiduguri. “Additionally, the involvement of the international community which led to the establishment of the joint planning committee on the 12 of May, 2014, the initial mandate of the joint coordination and planning committee which is championed by America and Britain was the fusion of intelligence for the rescue of abducted Chibok girls. “But this gradually is being extended to other aspects of the operations. I want to state here that the military is highly engaged in operations in view of achieving favourable outcomes. “Moreover, the continued attacks by the terrorists justify the imposition and extension of state of emergency because there is no alternative. Let me just say that Nigerians need not lose hope in the military but continue to support her in a bid to defeat the terrorists. “Secondly, all other elements of national power should contribute more in support of military operations. Right now, the element of national power we are using is the military. Other elements of national power are not being engaged sufficiently. “There is also the need for diplomatic lobbying for our foreign partners to provide more assistance in areas of equipment and whatever they can give us.” Security situation is deteriorating—Sen. Saleh But a member of the Senate Joint National Assembly Committee on Defence and an All Progressives Congress Senator from Kaduna Central, Senator Ahmed Saleh appeared to have dashed the hope of the military winning the war against terrorism even as he said that the situation was getting worse on daily basis. Senators Saleh, a retired army general said, “What I am going to say is based on my experience as an insider. Our duty here as senators of the federal republic transcends the extension of state of emergency. Our duty of oversight should ensure that high standards must be maintained in addition to acquiring all necessary equipment required to maintain a strong force. “When the Chief of Defense Staff was appointed in January this year, the service chiefs made a categorical statement that within three months they will crush Boko haram. But unfortunately, what we are seeing is a complete deterioration of the situation, so it is incumbent on us to find out why that deterioration. We have heard about our soldiers’ mutiny, it is also our responsibility to find out why that is happening. “For us to understand why that is happening, we need to go back to the Babangida (Gen. Ibrahim Babangida) era. After the 1990 Okar coup, the Federal Government of Nigeria systematically and comprehensively disarmed the military. “All the tanks, all the artillery guns were disarmed and locked up. All the aircraft were parked in Ilorin and other places, flying stopped, training stopped to ensure regime security not national security. “All the good officers of the Nigerian army were hounded out of the military. And there was over concentration of power at the centre which was the army headquarters. Prior to that, General Officers Commanding used to have training and maneuver grants. “They had the power and responsibility to train their troops and battalions and to ensure an efficient logistics and service support system. All that stopped. Everything was from Army headquarters, everything was from Air Force headquarters, everything was from Naval headquarters. “The attendant result was decay. Training was no longer going on at the battalion level, soldiers lost their skills and since then, no additional military equipment was purchased for the Nigerian Army. Even things as little as machine guns were in short supply, ammunition was in short supply. “An individual soldier’s professional skill was to be a matchman, to shoot and hit his target but can he do that if he has no ammunition? We have a duty to rebuild this army, to rebuild this armed forces, and unless we understand these basic facts, we are not going anywhere. “Also, after some time the fighting doctrine of the Nigerian Army was changed. We were essentially British brought up. That means we knew how much materials we had, the tasks before us and so on. But along the line during the Obasanjo (Chief Olusegun Obasanjo) regime, General Obasanjo brought Americans here and our doctrine approach was change to warfare. “I make bold to tell you that up till today nobody understands that. I know it is a strategic concept of warfare but in Nigeria we are applying it to the operational and tactical level. It has created a lot of confusion within our army. “Apart from that, our involvement in foreign operations and the kind of training we give to our soldiers for operations was a kind of defensive posture. You don’t kill until you are killed, you don’t attack until you are attacked. “That also helped to change the orientation of some of our soldiers. Then again, I must mention here fraud within the ministry of defense, fraud within the military service systems themselves has contributed a lot to diminishing our fighting capability. “Further to that again, we have the issue of our combat service support. Because of fraudulent activities, we monetized everything. Out supply services, our medical services are completely inefficient and are unable to support the fighting in the North East now. Right now I stand to question how our soldiers are being fed.” Speaking earlier, Chairman Senate Committee on Defence, Senator George Thompson Sekibo said that the essence of the meeting was to know why the issue of insurgence persists in the country and the conflicting reports on the fight against Boko Haram in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. Senator Sekibo said, “Nigerians are worried over the security station. Rather than abate its worsening. The spokesperson of the military and the press are contradicting each other. We want to find out the true situation of the attacks. “You will observe that the joint committee of the National Assembly on Defence met here with the Chief of Defence staff and other security chiefs from 10am to 3pm to get situation reports on insurgency problem in the three affected north eastern states as part of follow up to the approval of state of emergency in the affected state in May this year. “We have heard several stories from the media on alleged upper hand of the insurgents against the military and the military telling us here that such stories were speculative, making it difficult for us to know which of the stories to believe. “The military In fact debunked stories of major cities being taken over by the insurgents in the three states , though admitted that the insurgents had one of the towns as stronghold which according to them would be taken over from them in a matter of time from now. “We have also been informed by them that presidency is doing more for them in terms of procurement of new war ammunition and improve in welfare packages and other things being done to boost the morale of those at the war front. “But the committee has resolved to reach out to Mr President for direct interaction on the national problem with a view to knowing what and what are being done to fight the war to its logical conclusion which will definitely afford us the opportunity to put in our own pieces of advice. “We also resolved to submit all our findings at this meeting today to the respective chambers on resumption about 12 days to come”. Senator Sekibo said the Joint Committee wanted to know, “Who has captured where. We are worried about the contradictions. We want to know, is the military still equipped or not, what is the state of our equipment, are you having difficulties accessing funds, if there are funds to buy the equipment the moral of the soldiers will raise. “State of emergency is in the third stage and things are worse. Do we evacuate people there and go for full scale war, were the funds released to you? We should know the problem. We at National Assembly will not rest on our oars. Some of our people at the National Assembly can’t go back to our states,” he stated. |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by chenkov(m): 3:34am On Sep 06, 2014 |
God help us 1 Like |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by Raiders: 3:40am On Sep 06, 2014 |
IBB disarmed the army while GEJ killed the army 1 Like |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by condralbede(m): 5:21am On Sep 06, 2014 |
Raiders: IBB disarmed the army while GEJ killed the armyThat's the reason we shouldn't allow buhari to test that set of power ......Because he will bury the army 4 Likes |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by mankand(m): 6:00am On Sep 06, 2014 |
Very true, I have made mention of this before, it is because of the fear of coup by the Nigerian army that the governmentis not rready to invest more in the military, unfortunately they are short sighted, else they would have seen the danger ahead. 2 Likes |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by omenka(m): 6:54am On Sep 06, 2014 |
And what part of the constitution forbids the president from re-arming the Army?? Keep looking for means to excuse an insanely incompetent president. Mscheew. 2 Likes |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by Ozonna(m): 7:43am On Sep 06, 2014 |
Thank God that we've started acquiring new military equipments. Things can only continue to get better for us in this war against these terrorists. 2 Likes |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by msmon(m): 8:02am On Sep 06, 2014 |
omenka: And what part of the constitution forbids the president from re-arming the Army?? I love ur grammatical construction 're-army the army'. Lmao 2 Likes |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by Nobody: 10:00am On Sep 06, 2014 |
The senator has said it all. Millitary rule, corruption, poor training incompetent leadership infact the major problems affecting theNigerian society as a whole. The millitary is an extension of the failing state called Nigeria. What we can do to reverse the tide and save this country. 1.Firstly it start's from the top i.e the president we need a competent and strong leader that understand our dire situation as a country not the lucky sissy that governs by luck and always afraid to take the bull by horn. My take he needs to be schooled on what it takes to be an effective leader of which we don't have the time for that. 2. Put the millitary in a wartime situation and purge it of those never do well officer's and soldier's that are in the armed forces just because they are in need of employment. 3. A faced retraining of the armed forces on assymetric warfare thats for the long term but in the interim the most combat ready division's should be deployed stem the tide or bring about stale meet until better trained soldier's that are well schooled in counter insurgency operation's are ready for action. 4. Improvement of our intelligence gathering capabilities by collaberating with member's of the communitie's that the insurgent's operate. I still wonder why it is taking the Nigerian intelligence establishment so much time to infiltrate bokoharam and their leadership . 5. Use of the media against these terrorist. The media houses can do more to help the war against terrorism i don't mean by spreading false new's of army or bokoharam successes. But they can do more instead of releasing video's posted by shekau and his lot the media could turn the table's against him by exposing and telling the world the attrocitie's committed by this zealots in order to deny them of any sympathy they might be getting from Nigerians or people from area's ravaged by the insurgency. 5. Funding! funding !funding! You can't win a war without funding and equiping of the men that are going to lay down their lives for the survival of this country. The best fighting forces from time immemorial are known to be well equiped motivated and well paid we can't win this war without proper funding of the armed forces. 6. Lastly there is a popular saying that '' heaven help those who help themselve's we can't win this war without the political will and drive to put a stop to this carnage by bokoharam. Until when we are ready to help ourselve's puting in place the right political structure's in this time of great peril. Its only then we can talk about ridden the country off terrorism of any kind. 3 Likes |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by Ibnsultan01: 10:29am On Sep 06, 2014 |
We should stop looking for excuse for our failures. What's stopping the Govt from providing Modern weaponry for both the Airforce and Army. Seun. Unban Ibnsultan |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by Raiders: 10:38am On Sep 06, 2014 |
condralbede: That's the reason we shouldn't allow buhari to test that set of power ......Because he will bury the armyI agree with you. Nigeria deserve better leaders than GEJ and buhari. 1 Like |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by Brahms(m): 10:47am On Sep 06, 2014 |
Fear of Coup!! GEJ is a Pússy! |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by Wily2wily: 10:52am On Sep 06, 2014 |
good BH is teaching Nigeria army a good lesson. |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by enomakos(m): 11:05am On Sep 06, 2014 |
fear of coups? nonsense that why they destroy the army |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by PenSniper: 11:18am On Sep 06, 2014 |
Virtually all the evils bedevilling this country are traceable to IBB- a self-confessed EVIL genius. He decimated a country's army, combat-readiness and security for his personal security ! And he is walking free. Well such can only happen in an insane society that Nigeria is. 3 Likes |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by Gayigaskia(m): 12:52pm On Sep 06, 2014 |
PenSniper: Virtually all the evils bedevilling this country are traceable to IBB- a self-confessed EVIL genius. He decimated a country's army, combat-readiness and security for his personal security ! And he is walking free. Well such can only happen in an insane society that Nigeria is. slow down with that GEJ cool aid. What type of army equipments Abacha used in Sierra leone? where are those cluster bombs that the NAF used in Freetown? was it not after IBB? Please stopping shielding the GoatLuck |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by PenSniper: 9:59pm On Sep 06, 2014 |
Gayigaskia: I have no interest shielding GEJ but the Saleh guy who spoke was a man in the know. An insider. Killing the army for self security does not translate to not having any munition in the armoury at all. Cluster bombs are hardly the sort of weapon needed in a coup either. |
Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by Nobody: 10:30pm On Sep 06, 2014 |
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