Boko Haram: Why Nigeria Does Not Need Deby's Fraudulent Approach

By Ajibola Adeojo 

If recent reports of the success recorded by Chadian troops against the Boko Haram terrorists are anything to go by, then it would be taken that the Chadian forces used a new approach that had never been seen before.

Codenamed “Operation Boma Wrath," Chadian troops were said to have launched an attack on the terrorists, following an attack on their military base on March 23 by Boko Haram in which 98 Chadian troops were killed.


The revenge attack was adjudged a success because the Chadian troops killed many of the insurgents, destroyed five of their bases and many of their bunkers where its top commanders were hiding and recovered thousands of weapons from them.


Few of the surviving insurgents were said to have ran to Nigerian territories to escape been killed.


But if the Chadians had this  offensive strategy against the Boko Haram terrorists who have been taking refuge in their territories for several years why are they unleashing it only now?


The answer is not farfetched. Chad did not use any new approach in military warfare.


That it decided to come out against the insurgents now has more to do with the relationship between the Chadian president, Idriss Deby Itno and the insurgents.


Long before now, Chad had been engulfed in internal crisis for many years and many of its rebels frequently found themselves in Northern Nigeria.


Driven by hunger but with guns and other weapons at their disposal, they wreaked havoc on several Nigerian communities, seized their food supplies and extended their heinous criminal activities to highway robberies. They were known as Kwanta Kwanta due to the language they deployed in their operations.


With the advent of the Boko Haram, especially with the killing of Mohammed Yusuf, top commanders of the sect that were seeking revenge against the Nigerian State were mopped in by the Chadian rebels and in no time the latter surrendered to the command of the Boko Haram because it had more resources and an identifiable structure.


Chad therefore became an important operational base of the terrorists with the knowledge of the Chadian goverment.


The Chadian President had used this relationship to his advantage to demand financial support from Nigeria before.


But the relationship between Boko Haram and Deby went sour in recent times mainly because the Boko Haram were no longer economically useful since nobody was paying to have them kept at bay as was the practice during its early days and secondly, they were becoming a nuisance to their host communities.


The recent killing of the Chadian troops by Boko Haram broke the proverbial back of the camel and the Chadian government had to turn its gun on the terrorists.


The swift manner the exercise was carried out however raised the questions about the  approach used which saw the Chadian troops waking up one day to round up the terrorists in a singular attack.


Some say this is because the attack was led by the Chadian President himself and would want Nigeria to emulate that.


Those advancing this line of thought forget that about the same time that the Boko Haram attacked the Chadian troops killing 98 of them, the theater commander of the Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Olusegun Adeniyi was also ambushed by the insurgents and would have been killed if not for the deployment of superior military strategy that gave the insurgents a bloody nose.


It is recorded that the Boko Haram suffered so much in that attack that they abandoned a large cache of their weapons and fled.


But days after the Nigerian soldiers outmanouvered the insurgents routing them out in their numbers,  only a little media attention was given to it unlike the Chadian episode.


The truth is, apart from needless propaganda, Nigeria has fared far better in military operations than the tiny African country, hence has nothing to learn from Chad.


Even judging by the two incidents, it is clear which side gave a good account of itself as far as responding to attacks is concerned.


While Chad lost about 98 of its finest fighters, said to be the equivalent of its strike force, Nigeria lost only two soldiers in the ambush before reconnoitering to take on the insurgents and blowing them away.


It is obvious that the Chadian military strategy and approach to counter insurgency differs from that of Nigeria in many respects and it would be a great disservice to Nigeria for anybody to suggest that Nigeria should adopt the Chadian approach in its fight against the insurgents.


One, there is not even a clearly laid out strategy that has cast Chad as having an upper hand in the fight against insurgency.


In the history of warfare, before any strategy could be said to be superior, it must have  produced the same results over and over again.


This is not the case with the Chadians as what we have seen is a one off tit-for-tat mission that managed to succeed..


But the danger in playing the defensive or counter offensive like Chad has done in an asymmetric warfare like the one involving Boko Haram is that the insurgents are allowed to make their pick of targets before they are replied.


This could be counterintuitive as the insurgents while taking the time to plan and launch attacks would not always assemble in a place waiting to to be struck.


Another thing is that allowing the terrorists to converge at a particular place before taking on them.would be at a great cost to the civilian population along their camps who would be made to bear the brunt of their sustenance and the many humiliations that come with it.


The fact of the matter is that Nigeria is far ahead of Chad and other countries in the fight against insurgency.


Nigeria has been the leader on many counter insurgency operations across the continent including the multinational joint task force currently fighting the Boko Haram.


The Nigerian Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai has been leading the fight from the front since he was so appointed in June 2015.


He has personally participated in drills and other military exercises with fighting troops, talked and interacted with them directly  and led operations in the theatres of war.


His presence at many operations has served to inspire troops and boosted their confidence in the battle field.


Apart from that, the Chief of Army Staff  has been able to win the war by adopting tactics and strategies that suits particular geographical locations which he is quite familiar with.


Troops confidence has further  been boosted with the keen interest he has shown in the improved welfare of soldiers and instilling in them a high sense of patriotism.


Chad on the other hand has had a pact with the insurgents which went sour and were driven by rage of betrayal by an estranged accomplice.


Nigeria however is driven by patriotism and the need to save humanity from catastrophe and disorder.


The two countries are not in the same category.


Nigeria is doing well in the fight against insurgency and has nothing to learn from a one off operation.


Adeojo, a security analyst wrote this article from Ibadan.

BMC welldone u are doing a very good job for ur pay master.
There is nothing you will say dat will make us change our mind about you pay master.

Security analyst my foot.

This dumbo knows nothing about security from what I just read.

Regretted reading the stupid long epistle.

Nigeria should defeat Boko Haram, that's all.

Chad or No chad.

This writer is a lying/deluded idiot asslicker of faulures

Pls op what did u say, don't have time to read t
Ur story. And tell bubu to use the same approach let see how fra

Now i know why the igbos will never stop calling the yorubas deragotery names. Indeed there are worth every shit thrown at them shameless, foolish, asslickes set of People.

I would naturally have skipped responding to the post by OP but I felt its expedient to help correct the false impression of fraudulent approach being labeled on the Chadian president.

First, this post never attached any verified source from where the post emanated from.
Secondly, you cannot blame the Chadian for not unleashing this anger and approach on the terrorists since until lately... Remember that this Nigerian decietful government has always told us that No Nigerian territory is occupied by terrorists, therefore.. How will you expect another country to come attack terrorists inside your country when you have repeatedly denied that terrorists hold sway inside your country..?
Also remember that Chadian forces had earlier pulled out forces inside Nigeria and expected that Nigeria will be able to protect their territories handed over to them by Chadian forces but the terrorists still over ran our forces...
The last approach used by the Chadian forces was a revenge action daring any consequences even while operating deep inside Nigeria....
I can feel the frustration of the Chadian President who has threatened to pull of the Multinational JTF due to non cooperation from others...

jeremy85:
Boko Haram: Why Nigeria Does Not Need Deby's Fraudulent Approach

By Ajibola Adeojo 

If recent reports of the success recorded by Chadian troops against the Boko Haram terrorists are anything to go by, then it would be taken that the Chadian forces used a new approach that had never been seen before.

Codenamed “Operation Boma Wrath," Chadian troops were said to have launched an attack on the terrorists, following an attack on their military base on March 23 by Boko Haram in which 98 Chadian troops were killed.


The revenge attack was adjudged a success because the Chadian troops killed many of the insurgents, destroyed five of their bases and many of their bunkers where its top commanders were hiding and recovered thousands of weapons from them.


Few of the surviving insurgents were said to have ran to Nigerian territories to escape been killed.


But if the Chadians had this  offensive strategy against the Boko Haram terrorists who have been taking refuge in their territories for several years why are they unleashing it only now?


The answer is not farfetched. Chad did not use any new approach in military warfare.


That it decided to come out against the insurgents now has more to do with the relationship between the Chadian president, Idriss Deby Itno and the insurgents.


Long before now, Chad had been engulfed in internal crisis for many years and many of its rebels frequently found themselves in Northern Nigeria.


Driven by hunger but with guns and other weapons at their disposal, they wreaked havoc on several Nigerian communities, seized their food supplies and extended their heinous criminal activities to highway robberies. They were known as Kwanta Kwanta due to the language they deployed in their operations.


With the advent of the Boko Haram, especially with the killing of Mohammed Yusuf, top commanders of the sect that were seeking revenge against the Nigerian State were mopped in by the Chadian rebels and in no time the latter surrendered to the command of the Boko Haram because it had more resources and an identifiable structure.


Chad therefore became an important operational base of the terrorists with the knowledge of the Chadian goverment.


The Chadian President had used this relationship to his advantage to demand financial support from Nigeria before.


But the relationship between Boko Haram and Deby went sour in recent times mainly because the Boko Haram were no longer economically useful since nobody was paying to have them kept at bay as was the practice during its early days and secondly, they were becoming a nuisance to their host communities.


The recent killing of the Chadian troops by Boko Haram broke the proverbial back of the camel and the Chadian government had to turn its gun on the terrorists.


The swift manner the exercise was carried out however raised the questions about the  approach used which saw the Chadian troops waking up one day to round up the terrorists in a singular attack.


Some say this is because the attack was led by the Chadian President himself and would want Nigeria to emulate that.


Those advancing this line of thought forget that about the same time that the Boko Haram attacked the Chadian troops killing 98 of them, the theater commander of the Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Olusegun Adeniyi was also ambushed by the insurgents and would have been killed if not for the deployment of superior military strategy that gave the insurgents a bloody nose.


It is recorded that the Boko Haram suffered so much in that attack that they abandoned a large cache of their weapons and fled.


But days after the Nigerian soldiers outmanouvered the insurgents routing them out in their numbers,  only a little media attention was given to it unlike the Chadian episode.


The truth is, apart from needless propaganda, Nigeria has fared far better in military operations than the tiny African country, hence has nothing to learn from Chad.


Even judging by the two incidents, it is clear which side gave a good account of itself as far as responding to attacks is concerned.


While Chad lost about 98 of its finest fighters, said to be the equivalent of its strike force, Nigeria lost only two soldiers in the ambush before reconnoitering to take on the insurgents and blowing them away.


It is obvious that the Chadian military strategy and approach to counter insurgency differs from that of Nigeria in many respects and it would be a great disservice to Nigeria for anybody to suggest that Nigeria should adopt the Chadian approach in its fight against the insurgents.


One, there is not even a clearly laid out strategy that has cast Chad as having an upper hand in the fight against insurgency.


In the history of warfare, before any strategy could be said to be superior, it must have  produced the same results over and over again.


This is not the case with the Chadians as what we have seen is a one off tit-for-tat mission that managed to succeed..


But the danger in playing the defensive or counter offensive like Chad has done in an asymmetric warfare like the one involving Boko Haram is that the insurgents are allowed to make their pick of targets before they are replied.


This could be counterintuitive as the insurgents while taking the time to plan and launch attacks would not always assemble in a place waiting to to be struck.


Another thing is that allowing the terrorists to converge at a particular place before taking on them.would be at a great cost to the civilian population along their camps who would be made to bear the brunt of their sustenance and the many humiliations that come with it.


The fact of the matter is that Nigeria is far ahead of Chad and other countries in the fight against insurgency.


Nigeria has been the leader on many counter insurgency operations across the continent including the multinational joint task force currently fighting the Boko Haram.


The Nigerian Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai has been leading the fight from the front since he was so appointed in June 2015.


He has personally participated in drills and other military exercises with fighting troops, talked and interacted with them directly  and led operations in the theatres of war.


His presence at many operations has served to inspire troops and boosted their confidence in the battle field.


Apart from that, the Chief of Army Staff  has been able to win the war by adopting tactics and strategies that suits particular geographical locations which he is quite familiar with.


Troops confidence has further  been boosted with the keen interest he has shown in the improved welfare of soldiers and instilling in them a high sense of patriotism.


Chad on the other hand has had a pact with the insurgents which went sour and were driven by rage of betrayal by an estranged accomplice.


Nigeria however is driven by patriotism and the need to save humanity from catastrophe and disorder.


The two countries are not in the same category.


Nigeria is doing well in the fight against insurgency and has nothing to learn from a one off operation.


Adeojo, a security analyst wrote this article from Ibadan.

Excellent write up im glad a few people can at least see things exactly the way they are.

neyobills:



[s]Excellent write up im glad a few people can at least see things exactly the way they are[/s].

Absolutely nothing excellent about the write up except that the writer is trying to justify the unending corruption embedded in Nigerian military and the government in general which has weakened and made the Nigerian military become a laughing stock before terrorists and the whole.
The post is also filled with vicious lies which is very glaring to an unbiased and intelligent mind...
Anyone who cannot see the lies inherent in the bolded below is perpetually blind and has no remedy....

"Those advancing this line of thought forget that about the same time that the Boko Haram attacked the Chadian troops killing 98 of them, the theater commander of the Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Olusegun Adeniyi was also ambushed by the insurgents and would have been killed if not for the deployment of superior military strategy that gave the insurgents a bloody nose.
It is recorded that the Boko Haram suffered so much in that attack that they abandoned a large cache of their weapons and fled."

The writer of the said peice of junk has tried woefully to ridicule the successes of the Chadian forces who have taught the Nigerian government and military that inspite of lean resources at their disposal they can defeat terrorist successfully unlike in Nigeria with lots of money being embezzled in the name of fighting terrorism.

[s]

lurvy:


Absolutely nothing excellent about the write up except that the writer is trying to justify the unending corruption embedded in Nigerian military and the government in general which has weakened and made the Nigerian military become a laughing stock before terrorists and the whole.
The post is also filled with vicious lies which is very glaring to an unbiased and intelligent mind...
Anyone who cannot see the lies inherent in the bolded below is perpetually blind and has no remedy....

"Those advancing this line of thought forget that about the same time that the Boko Haram attacked the Chadian troops killing 98 of them, the theater commander of the Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Olusegun Adeniyi was also ambushed by the insurgents and would have been killed if not for the deployment of superior military strategy that gave the insurgents a bloody nose.
It is recorded that the Boko Haram suffered so much in that attack that they abandoned a large cache of their weapons and fled."

The writer of the said peice of junk has tried woefully to ridicule the successes of the Chadian forces who have taught the Nigerian government and military that inspite of lean resources at their disposal they can defeat terrorist successfully unlike in Nigeria with lots of money being embezzled in the name of fighting terrorism.

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E pepper arm, they spend their time ridiculing the Nigerian Army but feel insulted when same is done to Chad which has proven a safe haven for BH criminals. One of the reason Chad b
Pulled out of MNJTF is because they expect Nigeria to pay them, PMB saw through their rouse for us to keep funding them while they keep the insurgency going forever.

lurvy:


Absolutely nothing excellent about the write up except that the writer is trying to justify the unending corruption embedded in Nigerian military and the government in general which has weakened and made the Nigerian military become a laughing stock before terrorists and the whole.
The post is also filled with vicious lies which is very glaring to an unbiased and intelligent mind...
Anyone who cannot see the lies inherent in the bolded below is perpetually blind and has no remedy....

"Those advancing this line of thought forget that about the same time that the Boko Haram attacked the Chadian troops killing 98 of them, the theater commander of the Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Olusegun Adeniyi was also ambushed by the insurgents and would have been killed if not for the deployment of superior military strategy that gave the insurgents a bloody nose.
It is recorded that the Boko Haram suffered so much in that attack that they abandoned a large cache of their weapons and fled."

The writer of the said peice of junk has tried woefully to ridicule the successes of the Chadian forces who have taught the Nigerian government and military that inspite of lean resources at their disposal they can defeat terrorist successfully unlike in Nigeria with lots of money being embezzled in the name of fighting terrorism.

Have u bothered to ask why the Tchadian Army was sitting pretty twiddling their fingers till they lost over 100 men before the started this offensive,if they had kept up such tempo of offensives from inception im sure they wouldnt have to go through the pains of killing over 1000 BHT and raiding their camps now.

Military sources say the BHT that attacked the Tchadian Army base were actually fleeing from the onslaught of the NA and they were left with no choice than to attack the base to escape since there was no hope of beating a retreat back to Nigeria.

BHT have been very sympathetic to Tchad because firstly its a predominantly islamic country unlike Nigeria besides its a poor country and there is certainly little or no economic gains for BHT over there hence the Chadian Army has been treating the BHT with kid gloves since they will very much likely not attack Chadian interests or assets.

The Chadian Army are about the best in guerilla warfare in Africa so im not surprised and i commend the offensives however they have got nothing on the NA,even tho they have their flaws they are still miles ahead at least in this battle against BHT.

neyobills:



Have u bothered to ask why the Tchadian Army was sitting pretty twiddling their fingers till they lost over 100 men before the started this offensive,if they had kept up such tempo of offensives from inception im sure they wouldnt have to go through the pains of killing over 1000 BHT and raiding their camps now.

Military sources say the BHT that attacked the Tchadian Army base were actually fleeing from the onslaught of the NA and they were left with no choice than to attack the base to escape since there was no hope of beating a retreat back to Nigeria.

BHT have been very sympathetic to Tchad because firstly its a predominantly islamic country unlike Nigeria besides its a poor country and there is certainly little or no economic gains for BHT over there hence the Chadian Army has been treating the BHT with kid gloves since they will very much likely not attack Chadian interests or assets.

The Chadian Army are about the best in guerilla warfare in Africa so im not surprised and i commend the offensives however they have got nothing on the NA,even tho they have their flaws they are still miles ahead at least in this battle against BHT.

The Chadian army never sat pretty twindling their arms... If you will recall that the Chadian army actually pulled out their troops from Nigeria sometime earlier and expected the Nigerian army to actually occupy the territories which the Chadian army withdrew from but unfortunately the Nigerian government have been the one actually pampering the terrorists and treating them with kid gloves, haven't you heard the Army chief advocate for so-called repentant terrorists? Even their evil commanders were released by the Nigerian government... And before you know it.. The terrorists came back stronger such that the Commander of the Nigerian troops was ambushed and several soldiers killed.. I hope you saw the video about some weeks earlier?
Which so called onslaught are you then reffering to by claiming that terrorist escapes from Nigeria into Chad? When actually the terrorists ambushed Nigerian troops right inside Nigeria and killed a lot of troops and the Commander of that operation was seen lamenting...
Please let's not be biased and face the truth...