At his handing over ceremony last week, former Chief of
Defense staff Alex Badeh made headlines when he said that he led a military that lacked equipment. Now read what he said about the military when he was still in office in January 2015. He said this in an interview with Nigerian Defence Magazine.
Read what Alex Badeh said about the Nigerian military in January:

“The Nigerian military is very well taken care off.
We live in houses we don’t pay accommodation
for. We have buses that bring troops to work every
day and take them back home. We don’t pay for
light; we don’t pay for water. Our salaries are good
compared with what is paid in the civil place. If
someone with school certificate joins the army, by
the time he is five years in the service, his salary
has doubled that of a graduate. Why do you think
Nigeria is doing that for us?
Nigeria is doing that for us because we have
vowed that we will defend our nation if need be
with our blood. So for a soldier to come up and
say ‘I’m not well equipped’ yet you have a riffle;
what do you want? You want APC, you want
tanks? The basic weapon of an infantry man is
riffle, so why should there be mutiny? Why should
you accuse your commander of leading you into
an ambush? Come on! How can your commander
lead you to an ambush? If they kill my soldiers,
then of what use will I be? No commander will do
that deliberately.
This is the time for Caesar, all the time has been for
God, all the time we have been taking salaries, we
go and do exercise saying we I do this, I will do
that; I will fly like this ad fly like that. All those ones
you are preparing for, the day Caesar will come and
demand for his pound of flesh, and Caesar has
come now and he is saying, look come and do
your work, and you are saying you are not going?
No, it does not work like that.”he said.
http://defenceinfo.mil.ng/the-military-remains-the-strong-arm-of-our-democracy-chief-of-defence-staff/
http://lindaikeji..nl/2015/07/read-what-alex-badeh-said-about.html?m=1


Fast-forwad to July of the same year 2015:
Military poorly equipped to fight Boko Haram says former CDS Badeh.
"I was head of a military that lacked the relevant
equipment and motivation to fight an enemy that was
invisible and embedded with the local populace," Badeh
said.
"Over the years, the military was neglected and
underequipped to ensure the survival of certain regimes,
while other regimes, based on advice from some foreign
nations, deliberately reduced the size of the military and
underfunded it," he lamented.
http://m.news24.com/nigeria/National/News/Military-poorly-equipped-to-fight-Boko-Haram-20150731

Pls which should we now accept? Because he stated in January that having just a rifle was enough in a 21st century army.