South Africa Says Her '100' Soldiers are Playing a Major Role Against Boko Haram... lol

Cape Town – Former South African Defence Force soldiers are reportedly playing a major role in the fight against Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria after they were hired by the west African country.
According to a report published on the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) website, several ex-South African Air Force (SAAF)
pilots were also participating in the war against the Islamist insurgents.
The report said the South African team together with other military experts from Britain, United States and France had
contributed significantly to the recent successes of the Lake Chad Basin Commission forces against Boko Haram.
"The former SADF members are definitely playing a major role in this offensive. They have been in country for a significant time already, involved in training some specialised NDF [Nigerian Defence Forces] units," a former military intelligence was quoted as saying. Beeld reported in January that the former SA soldiers were to form the core of a multinational team of private military experts to fight Boko Haram. The report, at the time, said that the 100-strong team had been tasked with training the Nigerian military in a massive campaign against the terrorist organisation.

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This came after a Nigerian presidential security adviser stated that Nigeria's campaign against Boko Haram was being
hampered by "cowards" within the armed forces, signalling dissatisfaction with how the military is handling the situation.
But Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula dismissed the so called former SADF soldiers as mercenaries and said that they should be arrested when they return home. "The police have a responsibility to ensure that, when they come back, those people are arrested and the [National Prosecutions
Authority] has a responsibility to charge them. There are consequences for going out of the country and provide any form of
military assistance as a mercenary, not as part of the deployment by government," Mapisa-Ngqakula was quoted as saying.
Abuja has reportedly insisted that the deal had been cleared with President Jacob Zuma – and the ex-SADF soldiers now in
Nigeria have likewise also insisted that their involvement was cleared at the highest echelons of the South African government, even if the defence minister did not know about it.
With presidential elections this month, Nigeria is aiming to push Boko Haram out of major towns before the 28 March ballot.
Boko Haram made headlines last year when it kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in April. The girls have never been found, despite
claims by the government that they would be returned.

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Naija don suffer
Minnows con dey brag for our face
Chad, Cameroun, Niger all see us as craps. SA sent 100 army and them dey brag. How long with it take BH to crush those?

Hmm.... I can really see that they are playing a major role in bringing badluck unto our soldiers, after their arrival, that's when we hear that boko harams carried out another successful operation in Maduguri today, let them carry their 100 albinos away from our country jhoor....

Success to NA

Lost Glory
I remember our days in Freetwn ,Monrovia

Inasmuch as I don't see anything bad or worthy of political maneuvers here, I also think the FOI we shout afterall is a paper project afterall. Why feed us half-baked truths? Why take all the glory for a collective work. This is not a display of the purported diplomacity of the GEJ-led FG.


God bless NA
God bless all other key actors in the fight against terror worldwide.....
God bless Nigeria!!!

Orijin101:
Hmm.... I can really see that they are playing a major role in bringing badluck unto our soldiers, after their arrival, that's when we hear that boko harams carried out another successful operation in Maduguri today, let them carry their 100 albinos away from our country jhoor....

Success to NA

Go and buy a radio if Television is expensive, we wont allow you to remain a f00l forever.

jpphilips:


Go and buy a radio if Television is expensive, we wont allow you to remain a f00l forever.

ok

Most of the aircrafts Nigeria bought will definitely not be manned by the NAF at least till they are upto speed in training and flight hours.
NA and petty gingoists will always deny that fact but the unprecedented 6wks success is clear someone else is doing the job.
Some military guy on another thread even lied that they are only getting training from the equipment manufacturers, lol at least something to keep the giant of Africa delusion in tact.

I thank everybody who is contributing one way or another to keep the north safe.
If anyone feels embarrassed by the efforts of foreigners, then dust your arse and improve your game.

SOUTH AFRICAN Government has not sent any soldiers to Nigeria. The mercenaries hired by Goodluck Jonathan are fugitives awaiting jail should they dare come back to SA. As your article nicely call them private.

In short we do not give a dammn of their illegal performance. As we believe Jonathan is planning to use these mercenaries to destroy Nigeria if he does not win this election. Otherwise if he is not planning something sinister:

1.Why Did he insist on buying arms illegally from SA while SA did not put any arms embargo on Nigeria?

2. Why hire mercenaries fight BH either than buy legal arms from SA and arm the Nigeria army?

3. It is clear the mercenaries contracted in the name of fighting BH are not only there for BH but are also there to train and arm Jonathan's private army that will destroy Nigeria if Jonathan doesn't win.

You might want to deny the presents and actions of these mercenaries now but when Nigeria burns please dont come with your pathetic " SA hates us, why they hate us" because the SA government has declared these mercenaries/assassins fugitives with warrant of arrest out there already.

The SA GOVERNMENT has not interest in seeing Nigeria destroyed and another war in Africa. So based on their intelligence reports both from SA and international they are trying to prevent being participants to such.

The arms that Jonathan wanted to buy illegally in SA where not going to the army but to the mercenaries now/assassins to use and train Asari and co.

crownprince102:
Naija don suffer
Minnows con dey brag for our face
Chad, Cameroun, Niger all see us as craps. SA sent 100 army and them dey brag. How long with it take BH to crush those?

what is wrong if they fight along side Nigerian soldiers?

The only thing we need is positive result & we dont care how it is achieved. Isurgents should leave our land thats all we ask for.

Let us forget media propagand please.

BluIvy:
SOUTH AFRICAN Government has not sent any soldiers to Nigeria. The mercenaries hired by Goodluck Jonathan are fugitives awaiting jail should they dare come back to SA. As your article nicely call them private.

In short we do not give a dammn of their illegal performance. As we believe Jonathan is planning to use these mercenaries to destroy Nigeria if he does not win this election. Otherwise if he is not planning something sinister:

1.Why Did he insist on buying arms illegally from SA while SA did not put any arms embargo on Nigeria?

2. Why hire mercenaries fight BH either than buy legal arms from SA and arm the Nigeria army?

3. It is clear the mercenaries contracted in the name of fighting BH are not only there for BH but are also there to train and arm Jonathan's private army that will destroy Nigeria if Jonathan doesn't win.

You might want to deny the presents and actions of these mercenaries now but when Nigeria burns please dont come with your pathetic " SA hates us, why they hate us" because the SA government has declared these mercenaries/assassins fugitives with warrant of arrest out there already.

The SA GOVERNMENT has not interest in seeing Nigeria destroyed and another war in Africa. So based on their intelligence reports both from SA and international they are trying to prevent being participants to such.

The arms that Jonathan wanted to buy illegally in SA where not going to the army but to the mercenaries now/assassins to use and train Asari and co.

Your compatriots are singing praises for their alleged 100 men on ground already read comments

IbnSultaan:
Lost Glory
I remember our days in Freetwn ,Monrovia

what is lost in the glory? How can u compare killing a totally stranger to killing someone whom have same father with you.

Inshort the only was to win this war is to emloy total strangers who will not have any form of religeous or tribal sentiment. Because these insurgents are Nigerians & they have brothers, friends & neighbors in Nigerian Army.

Lets face the truth. Nigerian need mecinaries to even carry out this war if u ask me...

Even uganda wants in

http://en.starafrica.com/news/ugandan-army-to-join-fight-against-boko-haram-in-nigeria-official.html

IbnSultaan:
Lost Glory
I remember our days in Freetwn ,Monrovia

what is lost in the glory? How can u compare killing a totally stranger to killing someone whom have same father with you.

Inshort the only way to win this war is to emloy total strangers who will not have any form of religeous or tribal sentiment. Because these insurgents are Nigerians & they have brothers, friends & neighbors in Nigerian Army.

Lets face the truth. Nigerian need mecinaries to even carry out this war if u ask me...

I will comment later cos am currently hungry and where is Jacob Zuma when the Boko Haram where gaining ground? now that GEJ till 2019 is matching the insurgents, one Holierthanthou from nowhere start claiming to be behind the Nigeria army success.

bloody clowns,i ve got lot of guys in the frontlines who debunked this shit

We need to pay no attention to this attention seeking idiots who are using this boko haram war to score cheap points and have a shot in sharing the glory our brave troops are paying the ultimate sacrifice for...humanity is just messed up...it won't be long before even Sudan or Malawi of all countries come up with another crap that they are sending troops to Nigeria. Sending troops for what exactly? to snap pictures with dead BH terrorist when the war is almost over? why didn't this countries send their help and experts in the heat of the insurgency when the Nigerian army was not fully ready? Lets just focus on the business of rounding up this war,as victory is clear on sight...after that we will focus our attention on this scums who want to tarnish our image.

Qelvin:
We need to pay no attention to this attention seeking idiots who are using this boko haram war to score cheap points and have a shot in sharing the glory our brave troops are paying the ultimate sacrifice for...humanity is just messed up...it won't be long before even Sudan or Malawi of all countries come up with another crap that they are sending troops to Nigeria. Sending troops for what exactly? to snap pictures with dead BH terrorist when the war is almost over? why didn't this countries send their help and experts in the heat of the insurgency when the Nigerian army was not fully ready? Lets just focus on the business of rounding up this war,as victory is clear on sight...after that we will focus our attention on this scums who want to tarnish our image.

who is south Africa in the article?...you poor Nigerians are obsessed with SA,that's why you always try to look for something to ridicule a country which is thousands and thousands miles away ...

iterator24:
Your compatriots are singing praises for their alleged 100 men on ground already read comments

Psssstt you talking about a few people who are worried that their folks are going to jail just trying to give reason to idiocy. They are clammering for support to try and persuade the government not to arrest them as if they care when they only care about their pockets.