1. Sir, I am
constrain to write you this letter which I
consider it a matter of more than great
importance for me to inform you and put to
record issues that are happening in the North
East (Operation Zaman Lafiya). I choose this
medium to write you this open letter because I
have written similar letter but no action was
taking which I believe some forces have
blocked it are now after my life. Sir I have
served in 7 Division as staff officer and
presently I am the commanding officer of
103Bn in the field. My combined wealth of
experience as a staff officer and now
commanding officer are the disturbing fact
that necessitated me to write you this letter.
While as a staff officer, I was among those
who believed that the commanders in the field
are not doing well. But presently, as a
commander in the field, I found out that it is
not the fault of any commander that the
defeat of the so called BOKO HARAM (BH) has
not been achieved. 2. First and foremost sir,
the Nigerian Army is poorly equipped in the
North East, if all the battalions are well-
equipped as required; it will not take the Army
more than two weeks to flush out the BH.
Presently there are four units in my location
here in KONDUGA including 21 Armoured
Brigade HQ. If all the units are provided with
all their requirements, we can advance and
flush out BH out of North East. Mr. President
sir, the Nigerian Army is well-trained and
capable of defending our nation. It has
demonstrated the capacity to even
successfully enforce peace in other nations.
Why not in our own country Nigeria? 3. The
fact about NE operation is that we are poorly
equipped, understaffed, high corruption from
Army Headquarters down to battalion level.
Commanders see it as opportunity to make
money. My predecessor has complained of the
same problem. Instead of ASA addressing the
issue raised by him, the army authorities
decided to Court Martialled him. All the units
in NE are understaffed, but on payroll their
strength are complete just to collect more
allowances than what each unit is supposed
to. The commanders see it as a personal
money making venture rather than taking care
of men and equipment. This ugly trend led to
loss of many officers and soldiers and thereby
having adverse effect on the moral (sic) of
troops. Majority of soldiers in the operation
area wear mufti (civil cloths) under their
military uniforms in case there is an attack
and the troops cannot withstand the BH, they
found it easy to disguise as civilians to
enable them escape. This is not the
traditional practice in the NA. Though it is
lack of adequate equipment and poor
administration from the higher authority that
resulted to this ugly trend by our troops 4. Sir,
another bad and unprofessional act is that
soldiers don’t take to orders from their
superior officers because they have lost
confidence/trust from them. The case of
former General Officer Commanding 7 Division
Major General A. Mohammed is enough
evidence to show that all is not well in the
Nigerian Army. It will interest you to note that
worse cases has been recorded before that of
the former GOC and more are still happening,
but nobody is ready to investigate the root
cause of problems facing the troops in the
field. 5. This brings me to a recent occurrence
which is my main purpose of writing this
letter. As I mentioned earlier, due to the failure
of the authority to address issues that I made
mentioned, when a unit is attacked and
overran by the BH not because the soldiers
are unable to fight, but lack of weapons,
ammunitions and communications equipment,
the soldiers on many occasions will ran away,
and a commander cannot stand and fight
alone as a result of this. Presently seventy
percent of commanders in the NE are facing
Court Martial due to the reasons mentioned.
We the commanding officers are very worried
over this development. This is because we
many soon find our self as victims of this
maladministration from our higher authorities.
6. There is no sincerity in this operation; this
is because the present acting GOC has never
visited any location outside Maiduguri town
not to talk of principal staff officers in Army
Headquarters or even the COAS. But we keep
on hearing all sorts of lies that Generals are
leading the fight against BH. These are facts
that can be confirmed from officers and
soldiers in this operation including those in
the 7 Division Headquarters. The GOC is so
afraid that even with the Divisional
Headquarters; he doesn’t go out and always
locked himself inside his office. Infact it is a
common knowledge among officers and
soldiers in this operation that the acting GOC
is here to make his money and earn his
promotion to the detriment of the operation.
The completion of his mansion at No 8
Gwamna Road in Kaduna which the GOC
ignorantly disclosed that when he completed
it, will be among the best houses in Kaduna,
has turned to be a subject of discussion
among troops. READ ALSO: Coca-Cola Needs
To Respect our Laws – Femi 7. The former 21
Armored Brigade commander is facing Court
Martial today because the acting GOC does
not want to see him and his garrision in
Maiduguri town simply because of the huge
monthly allocations from the Borno State
government to the brigade garrision. He
wanted to be collecting his money by using 7
Div Garrison, but in reality 7 Div Garrision
does not have troops to claim such money. It
is worthy to note that the GOC received
33,000litres of AGO and PMS each, 600 bags
of rice monthly from Borno State government.
All these items are diverted for his personal
use. 8. Recently the newly appointed 21
Brigade commander lead 3 units to flush out
the BH, that operation was successful, almost
300 BH were killed, weapons and vehicles
were recovered from them, in the process the
troops exhausted their ammunitions from the
Div, the GOC simply replied that there was no
ammunition this made all the troops to
withdraw back to KONDUGA. 9. Presently
more than 3000 officers and soldiers are
either killed in action, deserted, captured as
POW or on AWOL. But due to lack of proper
administration the army directed that their
salary should be stopped. This affect the
families of those that are either genuinely
killed in action or captured as Prisoners of
War. It has also affected some of the troops
that are still participating in this operation.
10. Mr. President sir, if all issues raised in
this letter are not urgently address, the
Nigerian Army will soon be history and by
implication there will be no country called
Nigeria. No country without strong army will
survive. I decided to write you this letter
because the life of officers and soldiers trusted
in my care are no longer save. My life is also
at the stake because the NA authority as
usual will say I have communicated directly to
you as the Commander in Chief of the Armed
Forces and may sanction me. As a citizen of
this country and a commander in the
operational area, with all the points I have
mentioned in this letter, it is clearly that the
Military authorities have failed the country, as
such they should be held liable for their
misdeeds. I have consulted seasonal
constitutional lawyers if writing you this letter
will be an offence, but they said it is my
constitutional right to inform the C in C about
what is happening in the NE and within the
military which if not address will affect the
survival of Nigeria.

@Mod pls kindly move this topic to the front page.

Op, we want this on the front page.

I did my NYSC in Bama and I am still living with sweet memories of that flank in Nigeria( maiduguri, konduga, bama,banki, marua etc)
Now I can only but imagine how those places are looking like now. The stench of death and destruction every where. All the vibrant and booming commerce and agriculture very extinct.

Chai !!
Naija politicians
There is God oo

This post has already bin on front page few days ago.. Its not new.