Firefire:
JNigeria is known for lengthen court cases and unending trials: A Case study of 'Reverend Kings'

the conspiracy that radicalized Boko-Haram through that your mentioned theory, is still a mystery.

Seun:

Thanks for this key piece of info. I don't really trust the source though. I'd be more comfortable with a foreign source like BBC or Economist.


Assuming the story is true, you are absolutely right. However, I can't find any other source for the story. Not even Sahara Reporters.

vedaxcool:


True, they figured that giving a mad man cut lass is a recipe for disater!

Seun:

That's no excuse for murdering suspects some of whom may be innocent or may have been coerced. The president can easily fast-track court cases that he considers to be important, by setting up special courts that are well-funded to prosecute the terrorism cases more efficiently.


The police killed the founder of Boko Haram after capturing him. They brought him out and shot him dead. After that happened, Shekau took over the leadership of the sect and turned it into a full-blown terrorist organization. That unjust execution gave them the moral high ground.

jusRadical:



So in the time of war, you arrest and try?

So you will take the person caught smuggling guns for boko haram to court?

People like you are worse than the boko men.

Seun:

That's no excuse for murdering suspects some of whom may be innocent or may have been coerced. The president can easily fast-track court cases that he considers to be important, by setting up special courts that are well-funded to prosecute the terrorism cases more efficiently.


The police killed the founder of Boko Haram after capturing him. They brought him out and shot him dead. After that happened, Shekau took over the leadership of the sect and turned it into a full-blown terrorist organization. That unjust execution gave them the moral high ground.

Ikwokrikwo:
Where did the US try Osama Bin Laden?
Dumb thread

Chigold101:
Few days ago Netanyahu was in the US to speak to joint section of the congress, why? Because USA & Obama administration is planning to support Iraq nuke production. Iran is known for their human right abuse.

The USA said our soldiers are weak & afraid.

Their plans are failing them already, soon they will starte with another form of propaganda.

Since Nigerian soldiers started winning the war over insurgency, how many times have u seen it make news headlines in CNN as it was making when we were losing?

We should forget the USA, we dont need their weapons anylonger.

We have resorted in buying from China, Rusia, Pakistan etc...

ROSSIKE:
The US slaughtered 1.5 million Iraqis based on a pack of lies about non-existent WMDs. Not one US official has been tried for that fraud till date. To hear them talk of human rights is like a sick joke.

ROSSIKE:
The US slaughtered 1.5 million Iraqis based on a pack of lies about non-existent WMDs. Not one US official has been tried for that fraud till date. To hear them talk of human rights is like a sick joke.

ROSSIKE:
The US slaughtered 1.5 million Iraqis based on a pack of lies about non-existent WMDs. Not one US official has been tried for that fraud till date. To hear them talk of human rights is like a sick joke.

Seun:

That's no excuse for murdering suspects some of whom may be innocent or may have been coerced. The president can easily fast-track court cases that he considers to be important, by setting up special courts that are well-funded to prosecute the terrorism cases more efficiently.

atlwireles:


I can deal with the American hypocrisy, what has baffled me, has been their Nigerian megaphones.

atlwireles:
American drones are flying across the world killing people as they want and like, rightfully so. Yet these same group, want to hang human right abuse on a Nigerian army captain receiving direct fire from inside a mosque and decides to fire back.Women hiding weapons covered up in their religious attire, been subjected to enhanced modified security searches.


The Americans will NEVER hold any of their soldiers to the same conditions they want our men held.

ROSSIKE:
Exactly. Remember when a US general in Iraq was asked how many Iraqi civilians had been killed by US troops? His reply? "We don't do body counts''. These are the same monsters lecturing us on human rights?

jusRadical:



My brother do not mind them. Why is the US government keeping the contents of their nuclear deal with Iraq secret? For me, countries must learn to stop running to america as a big brother. They can't even protect Ukraine.

Seun:

The police killed the founder of Boko Haram after capturing him. They brought him out and shot him dead. After that happened, Shekau took over the leadership of the sect and turned it into a full-blown terrorist organization. That unjust execution gave them the moral high ground.

atlwireles:


I can deal with the American hypocrisy, what has baffled me, has been their Nigerian megaphones.

CyberTerrorist:
Seun and Gbawe, where were you when USA was slaughtering millions of Iraqis on assumptions of WMD? Where is the WMD today? You guys are just pathetic ..Spits on useless thread

Rift between US, Nigeria Impeding Fight against Boko Haram

27 Jan 2015


James F. Entwistle, the US Ambassador to Nigeria

Pentagon still considers Nigerian Army an important ally
Zacheaus Somorin with agency report
Relations between American military trainers and specialists advising the Nigerian military in the fight against Boko Haram are so strained that the Pentagon often bypasses the Nigerian military altogether, choosing to work instead with security officials in the neighbouring countries of Chad, Cameroun and Niger, the New York Times, in a report at the weekend, quoted US defence officials and diplomats as stating.

Major rifts like these between the Nigerian and American militaries have been hampering the fight against Boko Haram militants as they charge through North-eastern Nigeria, razing villages, abducting children and forcing tens of thousands of people to flee.

US Secretary of State, John Kerry, was in Nigeria on Sunday to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan and Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, the two leading candidates in the presidential election,[size=14pt] and the Pentagon said that the Nigerian Army is still an important ally in the region — vital to checking Boko Haram before it transforms into a larger, and possibly more transnational threat.

“In some respects, they look like ISIL two years ago,” Michael G. Vickers, the undersecretary of defence for intelligence, told the Atlantic Council last week, using another name for the militant group known as the Islamic State.

“How fast their trajectory can go up is something we’re paying a lot of attention to. But certainly in their area, they’re wreaking a lot of destruction.”[/size]

But US officials are wary of the Nigerian military as well, citing corruption and sweeping human rights abuses by its soldiers. US officials have also been hesitant to share intelligence with the Nigerian military because they contend it has been infiltrated by Boko Haram, an accusation that has prompted indignation from Nigeria.

“We don’t have a foundation for what I would call a good partnership right now,” said a senior military official with the United States Africa Command, or Africom, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak publicly on the matter.

“We want a relationship based on trust, but you have to be able to see yourself. And they’re in denial.”

The US was so concerned about Boko Haram infiltration that American officials have not included raw data in intelligence they have provided Nigeria, worried that their sources would be compromised.

In retaliation, Nigeria in December cancelled the last stage of American training of a newly created Nigerian Army battalion.
There has been no resumption of the training since then.
Some Nigerian officials have also expressed dismay that relations between the two militaries have frayed to this point.

“For a small country like Chad or Cameroun to come to assist” the Americans, “that is disappointing,” said Ahmed Zanna, a senator from Borno State, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency.

“You have a very good and reliable ally, and you are running away from them,” he said, faulting the Nigerian government. “It is terrible. I pray for a change of government.”

The tensions have been mounting for years. In their battle against Boko Haram, Nigerian troops were alleged to have rounded up and killed young men in northern cities indiscriminately, rampaged through neighbourhoods and, according to witnesses and local officials, killed scores of civilians in a retaliatory massacre in a village (Baga) in 2013.

Refugees said the soldiers set fire to homes, shot residents and caused panicked people to flee into the waters of Lake Chad, where some drowned.

But the allegations have been denied repeatedly by the military, which said the atrocities were committed by Boko Haram insurgents camouflaged in “stolen” Nigerian Army uniforms.

They have also pointed to the recent attacks on Baga early this month as example of the atrocities committed by the terrorists.
Last summer, the US government blocked the sale of American-made Cobra attack helicopters to Nigeria from Israel,
amid concerns about Nigeria’s protection of civilians when conducting military operations. That further angered the Nigerian government, and Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States responded sharply, accusing Washington of hampering the effort.

“The kind of question that we have to ask is, let’s say we give certain kinds of equipment to the Nigerian military that is then used in a way that affects the human situation,” James F. Entwistle, the US Ambassador to Nigeria, told reporters in October, explaining the decision to block the helicopter sale.
“If I approve that, I’m responsible for that. We take that responsibility very seriously,” he said.

All the while, Boko Haram has continued its ruthless push through Nigeria, bombing schools and markets, torching thousands of buildings and homes, and kidnapping hundreds of people.

Now stretching into its sixth year, the group’s insurgency has left thousands of people dead, the overwhelming majority of them civilians. It killed an estimated 2,000 civilians in the first six months of 2014 alone, Human Rights Watch said, and many of Nigeria’s major cities — Abuja, Kano, Kaduna — have been bombed.

US officials say that while it is unclear exactly how much territory Boko Haram effectively controls in Nigeria, the group is, at the very least, conducting attacks across significant parts of the North-east.

“They reportedly control a majority of the territory of Borno State,” in North-eastern Nigeria, “and a significant portion of the border areas with Cameroun and Chad,” said Lauren Ploch Blanchard, a specialist in African Affairs with the Congressional Research Service.

Even before the Nigerians cancelled the training programme in December, US military officials were concerned when soldiers showed up without proper equipment.

Given the nation’s oil wealth, the US attributed the deficits to chronic corruption on the part of Nigerian commanders, saying that they had pocketed the money meant for their soldiers.

“It’s not like they don’t have the money,” the senior Africom official said. “There are some things that we require to be good partners. The first of which is a commitment on the part of the Nigerian government to support its own army. They have a responsibility to provide adequate pay, to take care of their people, and to equip them.”

“None of those empty allegations have ever been proved,” said Chris Olukolade, a spokesman for the Nigerian military.

“The Nigerian military has always been receptive of honest support or assistance from well-meaning friends or partners. No one should however seek to use this security situation to usurp our sovereignty as a nation,” he added.

After Boko Haram made international headlines last April by kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls, the US flew several hundred surveillance drone flights over the North-east to search for the girls, but those missions were unsuccessful.
When the Pentagon did come up with leads, American military officials said, and turned that information over to Nigerian commanders to pursue, they did nothing with it.

But this again was refuted by the Nigerian military as “patently false”.

The frustrations between the two sides have broad implications for the fight against Boko Haram, US officials said, including making it harder for other international partners who have joined the effort.

“We are trying to work closely with the French and the Americans in support of the Nigerian military and government against Boko Haram,” a senior British diplomat said.

“A rift between one of our two partners and the Nigerians is not a good thing.”

Gbawe2:


Have you seen me argue here that the USA is a human rights champion or human rights 'Police' of the world? Frankly I don't hold such views. George Bush, for example, is a war criminal in my opinion. I was an active blogger before the period leading to the Iraq war and I wrote passionately about WMD (weapons of mass destruction) being just an excuse for Bush and Blair, post 9/11, to criminally invade Iraq and topple a figurehead proponent (Saddam ) of the "axis of evil".

Read what I wrote again and you will see I make it clear that the issue of the USA failing to help Nigeria goes beyond the consideration of human rights abuse alone. The USA has always being able to 'live with' human rights abuse and 'collateral damage' if such is in her interest. Read below to see that the real issue is that the USA is not keen, any time soon, to help Boko Haram become the ISIS of West Africa. This is the real reason the USA will not be supplying Nigeria with powerful weapons. You guys, instead of just being emotional and angry, should follow events closer and view issues dispassionately. This way it will be obvious what all stakeholders are doing when they take certain decisions.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/rift-between-us-nigeria-impeding-fight-against-boko-haram/200239/