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Boko Haram terrorists swore to pin
their flag atop the house of Nigeria’s
defense Chief, Air Marshal Alex
Badeh. Thursday Boko Haram lived up
to their pledge capturing Vintim, the
defense Chief’s town and violating his
home.
This as the Army Chiefs and President
of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
publicized a preposterous claim of a
ceasefire agreement with the
terrorists, clearly completely being
taken for a ride by the terrorists, the
Office of National Security, the
Minister of defense and whoever else
has been involved in their tactical and
operational decision making.
According to reports on the details of
the sack of the Chief’s town, Boko
Haram was not simply allowed to take
over Vintim; on the contrary, the army
Chiefs positioned way more troops
than ever at Michika to defend Mubi
local government and Vintim. 4500
troops were stationed. But to the
nation’s shame, only 300 Boko Haram
members reportedly sent Badeh’s
4500 Nigerian poorly motivated,
equipment sabotaged and poorly
directed, hungry troops running for
their lives.
It goes without saying: if the defense
Chief cannot defend his own village,
he clearly cannot defend the nation. If
the current leadership continues to be
in charge of the non-war against Boko
Haram, the terrorists will surely soon
overthrow the entire north of Nigeria
local government by local government
and eventually the entire nation.
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People in Mubi have narrated,
shockingly, that the Boko Haram
terrorists told them that they are
supported and armed by the Nigerian
government. This is not so much a
surprise as recent revelations by a
Nigeria employed Australian terrorist
negotiator, Stephen Davis implicated
Nigeria’s army Chiefs and an ex-
governor of Borno and tight friend of
the President, Ali Modu Sheriff as top
sponsors of the sect. The Nigerian
government has also been recently
exposed for scandalous and illegal
cash and arms smuggling; these
unregistered, under-the-carpet
operations have been linked to the
arming of terrorists.
Nigeria is desperately begging for a
new strategy on terror. 18 billion US
dollars of budget money over the 6
years of the Jonathan administration,
meant to equip the nation’s army is
largely unaccounted for. The Nigerian
army under the current management is
sabotaged and unable to check this
terror menace. The terrorists are
ruling large chunks of the northeast
and continuing to get stronger daily by
forcefully conscripting youth and
knife-edge and obtaining arms and
ammunition from the government of
Nigeria and the governments of
neighboring Chad and Cameroon. The
absurd and politics motivated decision
by the government to unilaterally
cease fire against the active terrorists
has enabled them to regroup and re-
launch most sophisticated and
coordinated attacks on the defenseless
populace.
It is passed time for Plan B. And as
has been postulated and as is working
in Iraq against ISiS, with Kurd, Shia,
Sunni and all available civilian militia
battling the terrorists, the only
alternative to dealing with a menace
beyond the capacity of the Nigeria’s
40,000 worn-out troops is the
immediate arming and engagement of
the thousands of battle tested and
desperately ready Civilian-JTF,
hunters, ex-soldiers and all other
eager volunteer Nigerians who will
take the battle back to Boko Haram,
free their towns and eliminate the
threat once and for all. There is simply
no other way than with the people…
privatizing the response to terror, so-
to-say (in the terminology this
Presidency understands all too well
and utilizes in earnest only in defense
of its pockets). It is time for an armed
civilian Patriots response to terror. The
army under the current and past army
Chiefs has failed.
Are Nigeria’s humane and sensible
governors, elders, religious leaders
and statesmen going to wait till a
hoped for transition of government
before coming to the aid of the
hundreds of thousands of Nigerians
under Boko Haram rule being
displaced, killed, raped and forcefully
conscripted? Or will they stand-up now
and push for the immediate arming of
a civilian force able to defeat Boko
Haram as urgently as is needed before
the situation gets completely out of
control, which it actually has already?
Where are Nigeria’s leadership
worthy?

when even the defence chief can't defend his own house... how is he expected to defend his hometown talkmore of the nation??

Khai... and some TANoids will now come here and tell me Jonathan is working...

Incompetence everywhere. Soon Nigeria’s defense Chief, Air Marshal Alex Badeh will need VISA and International Passport to visit his House

Smh

This man ought to have resign immediately his local govt was captured.

A man who cannot defend his own house is our defence chief, walahi our case dey Krishna hand.