Boko Haram Sacks Monguno Barracks, Fate Of 1400 Soldiers Unknown

Top security officials just confirmed to SaharaReporters that Islamist fighters today overwhelmed the 243 battalion of the Nigerian Army stationed at Monguno Barracks. The insurgents killed an undetermined number of soldiers and wounded the brigade commander of the barracks. 

Our sources said soldiers who put up resistance to the invading insurgents were killed, adding that many soldiers then ran in different directions. They disclosed that 1,400 soldiers were stationed at the barracks at the time of the attack, adding that military authorities were not aware of their exact whereabouts or how many of them had been killed. “We still don’t know what has happened to them [soldiers], but we know that Boko Haram now controls the barracks and Monguno town,” one officer based in Abuja confirmed. 

Despite the losses, Nigerian Defense Headquarters said the military was conducting air raids around the besieged barracks, adding that soldiers had to tactically withdraw from the town due to injuries sustained by the brigade commander and others.

Contrary to our earlier report that Nigerian troops had repelled attacks on the barracks, our sources said the military facility had fallen to the Islamist terrorists. “They [Boko Haram] have gained full control of the barracks, together with all the weapons there,” one senior military source told us over the phone. 

The source echoed a statement by another military source in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, that the Islamist fighters had killed many soldiers and a huge number of civilians in Monguno. 

Monguno town, home of the overrun barracks, is 85 miles from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. 

Boko Haram began attacking Monguno and Maiduguri simultaneously since last night, but Nigerian troops succeeded in repelling them from Maiduguri. After an intense battle in the state capital that lasted several hours, Nigerian troops were able to repel the insurgent attack. Nigerian troops said they had killed more than 100 Islamist fighters in the Maiduguri offensive. 


http://saharareporters.com/2015/01/25/boko-haram-sacks-monguno-barracks-fate-1400-soldiers-unknown

God! It s high time u intervened in Dis country!

Consy11:
God! It s high time u intervened in Dis country!

My sister it is not funny... Especially if you have family and you yourself live in the north. This problem is solvable but the solution to this menace is the last thing on the mind of the president. Hanging on to power by all means why the house burns.

GOD has given us dominion to solve our problems... The solution dey our hand come febuary.... Let's try something else!

I did not even know a post had been created and I just created another less than 30 mins ago! Praying for family cos the news on TV is not the news on ground. Playing politics with human lives.... There is GOD

Watching from behind!

Civilian War ll in the making, biafrians buckle ur shoes...

Story story!
Some people always wish doom for the Nigerian military, how I wish they would be consumed by bokos.

It seems Boko is hell bent on overrunning the whole Borno state before February 14th!

Anyways, their time is running out!
Buhari is on his way to drive them back into lake Chad!

The Moslems among the Nigeria soldiers give the boko haram information on when and how to attack. This boko haram is an Islamic sect, they have their own Islamic doctrine that forbids western culture and there are so many officers that belong to them but they will not make it known. GEJ should sack all the service chiefs because they don't know the reality on ground and they lack intelligent formation and system. Our problem in this war is insiders and the Government should overhaul the officers in the north east immediately.

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This is the transformation agenda. Our once internationally respected army has been transformed by this clueless gov't.

tinkinjow:
Story story!
Some people always wish doom for the Nigerian military, how I wish they would be consumed by bokos.

if you have facts to dispute what they have written, present them or you just sharrap.