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Boko Haram : We Need More Brave Men - Gen Minimah by breezy900: 1:04pm On Jul 19, 2014
Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt-
Gen. KTJ Minimah has come out
and surprised the general
public and admitted that some
of his men openly display acts
of cowardice and indiscipline in
their ongoing war with
terrorist
group Boko Haram.


In a new communiqué issued
through the Defence
Headquarters twitter account
after its quarterly conference of
the COAS ended,

Minimah said:
“the rising acts of indiscipline
and unprofessional conduct by
troops was unbecoming and
charged Commanders at all levels
to put a stop to it as the Nigerian
Army was a professional
organization.”

Gen-Minimah also talked about
the mutiny that occurred in
Borno capital Maiduguri, and
said: “A few issues needs to be
urgently addressed that have
caught my attention in recent
weeks.

Principal among these is the
rising acts of indiscipline and
unprofessional conduct by
troops. In this regard, the recent
mutinous act in Maiduguri and
reported destruction of public
property in Lagos readily comes
to mind.

As a professional army, the
conduct of our troops must be
above board at all times”
Blaming
it on the fact that most people,
who joined the military in recent
times, do so out of the need for
employment and not passion for
military service, Minimah said,
“Desertion is part of warfare.
We must accept that since the
era of the Cartagena wars,
soldiers had deserted from battle
field. In our own case, we are
doing recruitment now and we
are also receiving presentations
from across the country, from
people who want their wards to
be enlisted in the army”.

“But we need to have a
thorough
recruitment because mind you,
there is high level of
unemployment on ground; most
people want jobs and if that job
means joining the army fine. It is
a source of employment.
However, when the reality of the
military service comes, he drops
his riffles. So desertion will
continue to be there. We had
desertion in ECOMOG; in the
Nigerian Civil war and now it will
continue to be there”.
“Also, acts of indiscipline will
continue to be there but when
they are caught, they are
investigated and when they are
found questionable they will face
the Court-Martial”. “Like I said, in
a few months time, the war will
be over. But I cannot give you a
clear calendar date because this
is war on terrorism. It cannot be
determined in terms of concrete
date”.
Gen Minimah has been the COAS
since the start of this year, but
has not achieved much success
in the fight against terrorism, He
has however been happy with
the recent capture of Balmo
forest in Borno from the hands
of Boko Haram agents.
The mutiny in Maidugiri was
caused after the soldiers lost
their friends who where
assigned to a particular
dangerous area.
Source: www.breezyworld.tk/forum/showtopic.php?id=594

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