Nigeria: Do We Have An Army?

 
I used the term Egbesu boys holistically in this discourse to include MEND, but it seems my optimism is misplaced, I believe great wrongs have and are  being done to the Niger  Delta people. Therefore I agreed with the struggle not the methodology.

How sad amongst all these groups none of them by your assertion are pursuing this quest of socio- economic emancipation on the basis of ideology: truth, integrity, selflessness, righteousness, fair play and better quality of life for all.

Ocelot2006, are you saying that not even one of these groups has some ideological conscientious basis in their quest.

Nigeria is not my principal residence at the moment; I am however, hoping to change that sooner rather than later.  I admit to staying no more than six weeks at any one time, my visits being at least twice a year mostly.   I think I will try to go a lot more to ground level, i neva do any beta village waka for delta, that doesn’t mean I’m in VI all the time.

As per the Apache like a good thorough bred it does require some high spec. Maintenance, to keep it operational there is no cutting corners. “No manage it” but with tech assistance from the US we can train our aero technicians to become competent.

As someone who hails from the Niger-Delta, i know that what's happening i.e the kidnappings etc, is a fallout of what we, especially the poor ones living in the creeks have gone through.But i lost all respect for MEND and other militant groups when they began to kidnap children just for money, terrorise innocent civilians, and most of all, kill innocent people (including a very close member of my family).

I don't also buy all that bullshit of fighting for us, `cos if you know just how much they've been given, you wouldn't be heaping so much praise on them.You only had to go to PH -that's b4 JTF came into town- to see how those piece of s%*$e spent money they had gotten on behalf of the niger-delta people - buying nice cars, and blowing the rest on hookers,and of course guns.Boy am i glad that Def HQ gave the kill order.

All the same, i really hope that the Govt (federal,state,local) do more in improving the standard of living in the Niger-delta.The oil companies should also be made to carry out their social responsibilities.But MEND and the rest?Well, they're dead meat.

I heard the story of the vehicles bought by the police equipment fund. What i read was that the IG gave the order to sieze all 400 vehicles as some other govt. parastatals wanted to lay their hands on them.no helicopters are missing.so please, double-check your post.

egypt, algeria, and arguably libya have better armies.  south africa would be stronger too had it not dismantled it's nuclear program