Strong indications have emerged that Nigerian troops are being withdrawn from the state of emergency states in the aftermath of the failure of the National Assembly last week to approve President Jonathan’s request for an extension of the state of emergency in the three north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.

This is coming just as the insurgents killed 48 fish vendors in Borno State, near the border with Chad on Thursday.
Although, Peoples Daily could not independently confirm the development as at the time of filing this report, a very reliable source who spoke to our reporter, on condition of anonymity, said yesterday that over 20 military vehicles left Yola, the Adamawa state capital.

Efforts to get the reaction of the military authorities was not successful, as the Defence spokesman, Major-General Chris Olukolade did not respond to calls and text messages sent to his mobile phone.

President Goodluck Jonathan had last Tuesday sent a request letter to the National Assembly to extend the emergency rule in the three northeast states over the constant Boko Haram brutality in the areas.

Many stakeholders are of the view that Boko Haram will now have a field day in those states as soldiers leave. The source said the President re-introduced the state of emergency, but that the House of Representatives have fallen into the trap as they opposed the state of emergency, pointing out that the president can deploy the military to any part of the country without declaring any state of emergency.

Meanwhile, 48 fish vendors were gruesomely murdered last Thursday, AFP reported yesterday.

“Scores of Boko Haram fighters blocked a route linking Nigeria with Chad near the fishing village of Doron Baga on the shores of Lake Chad on Thursday and killed a group of 48 fish traders, who were on their way to Chad to buy fish,” one Abubakar Gamandi has said.

He said the insurgents set up a barricade at Dogon Fili, 15 kilometres from Doron Baga, and stopped a convoy of fish vendors around midday, slaughtering some of them and drowning others in the lake.

“The Boko Haram gunmen slit the throats of some of the men and tied the hands and legs of the others before throwing them into the lake to drown,” Gamandi told AFP by telephone from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

Doron Baga, 180 kilometres from Maiduguri, is the base of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), comprising troops from Nigeria, Chad and Niger fighting the insurgents.

Gamandi claimed the assailants killed all of their victims without using their guns.

“The attackers killed their victims silently without the use of the gun to avoid attracting attention from the multi-national troops,” Gamandi said.

A military officer in Maiduguri confirmed the attack but said details were sketchy.”We heard of the attack near Doron Baga but we don’t have any details because the area falls under the operational jurisdiction of the MNJTF,” the military officer said.

Incessant Boko Haram attacks have disrupted fishing and farming along the shores of Lake Chad and fishermen from Doron Baga were forced to abandon fishing and turned to importing dried fish from neighbouring Chad. Gamandi said the Dogon Fili route provided the safest passage for traders from Doron Baga to Chad as other routes are infested with Boko Haram gunmen who rob and kill travellers.

However, the Defence spokesperson, Major-General Chris Olukolade, has appealed to the international community to be more objective by showing understanding for the peculiarity of Nigeria’s current security situation.

He particularly criticised the hard stance of some western countries over perceived negative human rights record of Nigerian military saying it was ill informed and based on wrong mindset.

Olukolade, who spoke while receiving the prestigious Alfred Daniel King Foundation award as a distinguished Military Information Expert, in Atlanta Georgia, United States of America noted that the Nigerian Armed Forces have always strived to operate in line with the global professional best practices.

Urging the world to recall that Nigeria had survived a civil war, social and political unrests, and several religious upheavals in the last 100 years of its existence as a nation, Olukolade dismissed certain notions that the raging terrorists in the North East of the country have overwhelmed the military as not only ridiculous but utterly baseless and conspiratorial in nature.

According to him, it is important for critics to realize that the war against the terrorists is not conventional but purely a guerilla warfare where terrorists fight sporadically and melt back into the social system.

Unfortunately, he noted, some international interests are desperate to portray Nigeria as a failed state; show the world that democratic governance is not good for Nigeria; ridicule the Nigerian armed forces and make them seem incapable of safeguarding the sovereignty of the Nigerian state.

The Defence spokesman said “if, with the sophistication of global coalition, money and military resources so far deployed to fighting the Islamic State (IS), western powers are yet to dislodge ISIS from Iraq and Syria, then it is imperative they should show more understanding in respect of Boko Haram war in Nigeria.”

He emphasized that the insurgency was a passing phase in the history of Nigeria as very soon, with the concerted efforts of the Nigerian military, the support from the Nigerian government, more understanding from the international community and more importantly, with the support of the Nigerian people, Boko Haram will be defeated.
Source: http://www..com.ng national

Unbelievable

so invariably Nigeria has lost the war !!though in times of strife/war I would expect the president to act 'less democratic' and use some of his veto power

This APC are boko haram fifth columnists.
Any time the NA has boko haram on the ropes, the APC will rescue them.
Just now the NA has mobilized and is sweeping BH from Mubi and environs, BH 2 (APC) strikes again.
The funny thing is that they do it all in plain sight:
1) claim BH insurgency will ned when they win elections
2) tie NA hands up anytime they are dealing with BH.

it is a pity.

What do you expect when rubbish and selfish law makers wanna destroy country Let their state finish is their biz

nedu2000:
I would expect the president to act 'less democratic' and show some veto power

and expose our troops to accusations of ethnic cleansing and war crimes?
One expects the Representatives to have asked the troops what hey need to wage the war better.
Perhaps more stringent State of Emergency than the president was asking for.

This federal government sef, The president has all the required power and authority to deploy troop to any part of the nation. But the weakling cannot due to his cluelessnes. You don't need state of emergency to take action when need be.

tit:


and expose our troops to accusations of ethnic cleansing and war crimes?
One expects the Representatives to have asked the troops what hey need to wage the war better.
Perhaps more stringent State of Emergency than the president was asking for.

'cos the presidents tells its military to go to war doesn't automatic mean war crimes will be exercised, since d reps are slow &/or r refusing to act,afterall boko haram is alleged to be part of this present govt,senator Ndume as reference point!so d president should act....boko haram r also committing war crimes too

tit:
This APC are boko haram fifth columnists.
Any time the NA has boko haram on the ropes, the APC will rescue them.
Just now the NA has mobilized and is sweeping BH from Mubi and environs, BH 2 (APC) strikes again.
The funny thing is that they do it all in plain sight:
1) claim BH insurgency will ned when they win elections
2) tie NA hands up anytime they are dealing with BH.

it is a pity.

your likes are the fifth columnist of Boko haram,all because you want Gej not even necessary PDP to remain in power you are not addressing this issue holistically,yes it's only normal for the any opposition to take advantage of what the ruling party is doing wrong and tell the populace that they can do better,that said the emergency rule has being there for over 18months and boko haram is advancing,the house has not reject the request they only failed to deliberate on it on Friday because FG sent Police and DSS to condone the house on friday,until when they reconvene the FG can still send troops to any part of the country to protect its integrity not play politics with people's lives.

I hope the sympathizers of Boko Haram are now happy with this news ...To score a cheap political point Tambuwal and his self serving Legislooter are ready to see Boko Haram kill innocent people ..

is going to be very interesting

The game plan of APC all along.

omarlee:
This federal government sef, The president has all the required power and authority to deploy troop to any part of the nation. But the weakling cannot due to his cluelessnes. You don't need state of emergency to take action when need be.

a saying in My place says "when someone speaks you can tell his age." Let me ask you something Mr Cluefulness, Which do you think that is harder; to send troupes without consulting National assembly or to consult them before sending?

Let all the Christians and southerners move out.

Let them have their caliphate.

Declare full war and then bomb them back to the camel age.

nedu2000:
so invariably Nigeria has lost the war !!though in times of strife/war I would expect the president to act 'less democratic' and use some of his veto power

Well, So far as Mr.President has the Veto power and can choose to exercise it as deem fit, albeit, He shouldn't use our Oil money in a wasteful way anymore. How many billions are we gonna be spending on fighting a ragtag Insurgents like this...Look at how some Top military men are feeding fat on it... Plus it's draining our economic purse.

Let them use the cache of weapons seized from Boko Haram. #Manage what you have is the name of the game.

Lastly, iDon't understand why comparing a small pocket of loxal insurgents group like Boko Haram to ISIL makes sense... DHQ is fond of doing that...This ain't even a tangible excuse just to cover up. Anyway, our Military men are really trying.. More power to them

masseratti:
your likes are the fifth columnist of Boko haram,all because you want Gej not even necessary PDP to remain in power you are not addressing this issue holistically,yes it's only normal for the any opposition to take advantage of what the ruling party is doing wrong and tell the populace that they can do better,that said the emergency rule has being there for over 18months and boko haram is advancing,the house has not reject the request they only failed to deliberate on it on Friday because FG sent Police and DSS to condone the house on friday,until when they reconvene the FG can still send troops to any part of the country to protect its integrity nit play politics with people's lives.

Fool

tit:
This APC are boko haram fifth columnists.
Any time the NA has boko haram on the ropes, the APC will rescue them.
Just now the NA has mobilized and is sweeping BH from Mubi and environs, BH 2 (APC) strikes again.
The funny thing is that they do it all in plain sight:
1) claim BH insurgency will ned when they win elections
2) tie NA hands up anytime they are dealing with BH.

it is a pity.

Shut up and reason like a normal human being. When the Presidency is not ready to end the war against terrorism, you want the opposition to do that?! If the Security Personnels that were deployed to the National Assembly to harass Opposition Lawmakers were deployed to the North East, I'm very certain that war against terrorism would have been won by the Nigerian Military.

A President wrote a letter to the Speaker to convene the House so as to let them deliberate on the Emergency Rule, the same President ordered Security Personnels to go restrain the Speaker from going into the Chambers. If they had allowed the Speaker in, in time, I'm sure they would have deliberated on that issue. But the President's personal ambition has beclouded his sense of reason. Stop blaming the opposition for your woes!

Whether the NASS approves the extention of the state of emergency or not, the President can deploy troops. He can invoke section 8 of the Army Act, like some members of the HoR have said, to declare war on Boko Haram. Why must he withdraw the troops from those three states?
Last bullet: The IGP should not be ordered to clamp vigilante groups in those states who resort to self-help.

If he wanted to extend it, he would not have sent the Police to frustrate the possibility of the Lawmakers deliberating on it.

We have no government in Nigeria. Confirmed!

That's good news to me. Majority of the Reps opposing Emergency Rule Extension are Northerners, let them have their Islamic Caliphate...lol.

No problem if they want NE to go up in flames

Was there really a State of Emergency in the first place?

my God.
time to go home guys
flee the north while the Niger bridge is still intact

T

This is not a true story, it can't be.

If it is, this was the outcome the Presidency preferred by preventing the Reps from properly deliberating on the issue through IGP's lawless actions.

This is what you get when APC plays politics with security, has GMB been vocal against BH? God help us from this Tambuwal and his band of fence jumping reps.

I am in support so that Nigeria can appreciate our Soldiers

f

omarlee:
This federal government sef, The president has all the required power and authority to deploy troop to any part of the nation. But the weakling cannot due to his cluelessnes. You don't need state of emergency to take action when need be.

Was just about to post before I saw this comment. I have nothing more to add. The man is simply too petty. Too childish.

God forbid.

aboy247:
Strong indications have emerged that Nigerian troops are being withdrawn from the state of emergency states in the aftermath of the failure of the National Assembly last week to approve President Jonathan’s request for an extension of the state of emergency in the three north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.

This is coming just as the insurgents killed 48 fish vendors in Borno State, near the border with Chad on Thursday.
Although, Peoples Daily could not independently confirm the development as at the time of filing this report, a very reliable source who spoke to our reporter, on condition of anonymity, said yesterday that over 20 military vehicles left Yola, the Adamawa state capital.

Efforts to get the reaction of the military authorities was not successful, as the Defence spokesman, Major-General Chris Olukolade did not respond to calls and text messages sent to his mobile phone.

President Goodluck Jonathan had last Tuesday sent a request letter to the National Assembly to extend the emergency rule in the three northeast states over the constant Boko Haram brutality in the areas.

Many stakeholders are of the view that Boko Haram will now have a field day in those states as soldiers leave. The source said the President re-introduced the state of emergency, but that the House of Representatives have fallen into the trap as they opposed the state of emergency, pointing out that the president can deploy the military to any part of the country without declaring any state of emergency.

Meanwhile, 48 fish vendors were gruesomely murdered last Thursday, AFP reported yesterday.

“Scores of Boko Haram fighters blocked a route linking Nigeria with Chad near the fishing village of Doron Baga on the shores of Lake Chad on Thursday and killed a group of 48 fish traders, who were on their way to Chad to buy fish,” one Abubakar Gamandi has said.

He said the insurgents set up a barricade at Dogon Fili, 15 kilometres from Doron Baga, and stopped a convoy of fish vendors around midday, slaughtering some of them and drowning others in the lake.

“The Boko Haram gunmen slit the throats of some of the men and tied the hands and legs of the others before throwing them into the lake to drown,” Gamandi told AFP by telephone from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

Doron Baga, 180 kilometres from Maiduguri, is the base of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), comprising troops from Nigeria, Chad and Niger fighting the insurgents.

Gamandi claimed the assailants killed all of their victims without using their guns.

“The attackers killed their victims silently without the use of the gun to avoid attracting attention from the multi-national troops,” Gamandi said.

A military officer in Maiduguri confirmed the attack but said details were sketchy.”We heard of the attack near Doron Baga but we don’t have any details because the area falls under the operational jurisdiction of the MNJTF,” the military officer said.

Incessant Boko Haram attacks have disrupted fishing and farming along the shores of Lake Chad and fishermen from Doron Baga were forced to abandon fishing and turned to importing dried fish from neighbouring Chad. Gamandi said the Dogon Fili route provided the safest passage for traders from Doron Baga to Chad as other routes are infested with Boko Haram gunmen who rob and kill travellers.

However, the Defence spokesperson, Major-General Chris Olukolade, has appealed to the international community to be more objective by showing understanding for the peculiarity of Nigeria’s current security situation.

He particularly criticised the hard stance of some western countries over perceived negative human rights record of Nigerian military saying it was ill informed and based on wrong mindset.

Olukolade, who spoke while receiving the prestigious Alfred Daniel King Foundation award as a distinguished Military Information Expert, in Atlanta Georgia, United States of America noted that the Nigerian Armed Forces have always strived to operate in line with the global professional best practices.

Urging the world to recall that Nigeria had survived a civil war, social and political unrests, and several religious upheavals in the last 100 years of its existence as a nation, Olukolade dismissed certain notions that the raging terrorists in the North East of the country have overwhelmed the military as not only ridiculous but utterly baseless and conspiratorial in nature.

According to him, it is important for critics to realize that the war against the terrorists is not conventional but purely a guerilla warfare where terrorists fight sporadically and melt back into the social system.

Unfortunately, he noted, some international interests are desperate to portray Nigeria as a failed state; show the world that democratic governance is not good for Nigeria; ridicule the Nigerian armed forces and make them seem incapable of safeguarding the sovereignty of the Nigerian state.

The Defence spokesman said “if, with the sophistication of global coalition, money and military resources so far deployed to fighting the Islamic State (IS), western powers are yet to dislodge ISIS from Iraq and Syria, then it is imperative they should show more understanding in respect of Boko Haram war in Nigeria.”

He emphasized that the insurgency was a passing phase in the history of Nigeria as very soon, with the concerted efforts of the Nigerian military, the support from the Nigerian government, more understanding from the international community and more importantly, with the support of the Nigerian people, Boko Haram will be defeated.
Source: http://www..com.ng national

WHEN NIGERIA SOLDIERS WERE IN THE THREE STATES, BOKO HARAM DO KILL OVER 100 SOMETIMES.

I WILL NOT BEG EBELLE TO STOP THE SOLDIERS FROM LEAVING. BUT HE MUST PROVIDE AMMUNITIONS AND ALLOW EXTERNAL SOURCES TO PROVIDE AMMUNITIONS FOR THE POEPLE OF THESE THREE STATES.
THEY WILL DO BETTER THAN OUR SOLDIERS IF EQUIPPED.

HOWEVER, I WANT TO BELIEVE THE STORY IS UNTRUE, BUT IF TRUE, GOOFLUCK IS JUST LIKE A SCRAP OF ABANDONED RUSTY OLD CAR.
NOT FIT FOR THIS GENERATION.

Chigold101:
a saying in My place says "when someone speaks you can tell his age." Let me ask you something Mr Cluefulness, Which do you think that is harder; to send troupes without consulting National assembly or to consult them before sending?

He doesn't need NASS approval to send troop, he needs NASs only for SoE. They are telling him to send troop with or without SoE