Roan77:


We were flying mig 21 fighter jets before it was retired.

Covert1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH1QQdfSzKw

Finally with this acquisition Nigeria now has for the first time in over 25 years achieved a viable element of deterrence against state & non-state actors in the region. With the M346FA augmenting the JF-17s, F-7s and the A-29 Super Tucanos the NAF now has the strategic and tactical advantage of air power over its existing and potential enemies. This calls for a neat drink to the health of the Nigerian Air Force and the Armed Forces of Nigeria. Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria! Cheers!

BlackBaron:


These new jets might well mean JF - 17 may not be procured further?

In other news

I think we should quit calling them 'bandits', it's a terrorist organisation albeit based largely on loose ideologies operating in the NC, NW.

BlackBaron:


These new jets might well mean JF - 17 may not be procured

DubaiLandLord:
I can't answer on behalf of the retired Commodore. The man don talk say he sabi names, why he didn't mention is what I don't know. But I feel the government can take it up from where he stop.

If the Government wants him to mention name, they can send the DSS, as usual. If he has no tangible names and evidence to give, he can be sued to court and used as an example to others.

GeneralFarouq:

What the diff btw bandits and terrorist
Terrorist seek to force ideology upon the area they seek to dominate... This ideology could be religious or political...eg. BH and IPOB by Nigeria govt. definition
While bandits don't impose ideaolgy but go after Innocents property by looting and exacting destruction... Banditry now in Nigeria is sometimes as good as armed robbery or kidnapping...
However, both Bandits and terrorist should be treated with same prejudice.

Geronimoe:


If the govt should do this, I'm sure you will copy from Saharareporters the news with a caption, "govt silences naval Commodore" and paste it here, meanwhile na you dey give govt the expo o. Well, the rtd Commodore made some allegations, the onus lies on him to lay it bare to the public with proofs that cannot be doubted.

NewDelhi:
Allahu Akbar!

Stormtrooper11:
My area is under attack. Gunshots. We just ran away from home. People screaming. Just pray we make it

Stormtrooper11:
My area is under attack. Gunshots. We just ran away from home. People screaming. Just pray we make it

Stormtrooper11:
My area is under attack. Gunshots. We just ran away from home. People screaming. Just pray we make it

kabe1:


I hope you're safe.

demolition:


Hope you made it to a safe place?

arantess:

May God be with you guys and safe guard you
Stay safe

Stormtrooper11:
My area is under attack. Gunshots. We just ran away from home. People screaming. Just pray we make it

Stormtrooper11:
My area is under attack. Gunshots. We just ran away from home. People screaming. Just pray we make it

bidexiii:
Nice video from NIMISA


https://www.instagram.com/tv/CTDSx8mKr8G/?utm_medium=copy_link

Stormtrooper11:

We were told to go back to our homes. The motorbike battalion NA arrived. Made some speeches, saying we should go to bed. They left. Arrived home, saw plenty broken molotov cocktails everywhere. Still tensed. Learnt they are coming for us. They have advantage. They are on higher ground.

DubaiLandLord:
Terrorists named current Govs, Senators, Aso Rock officials as sponsors during interrogation – Ex-Naval Officer

A former Navy Commodore, Kunle Olawunmi, has said that Boko Haram terrorists mentioned names of current governors, senators and Aso Rock officials as sponsors during interrogation but the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has demonstrated unwillingness to go after the high-profile politicians for reasons best known to it.

Olawunmi spoke on Wednesday when he featured on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ breakfast programme monitored by The PUNCH.

He described as an “aberration”, Tuesday attack by bloodthirsty bandits on the Kaduna campus of Nigeria’s foremost military university, the Nigerian Defence Academy, where two military officers were killed and another kidnapped.

“It is an aberration; you don’t attack the Nigerian Defence Academy and get away with it,” he lamented, adding that the NDA, like other military environments in the country, carelessly opens its doors to everyone on Friday for Jumat prayer.

‘Terrorists profile security environments during Muslim prayer on Friday’

Olawunmi said terrorists and criminals profile military environments during Muslim prayers on Fridays.

He said, “In 2017, I carried out an investigation by the minister of defence that wanted me to check what was going on with the training and the security there (NDA). I remember I spent about a week in the NDA with the commandant and the staff but something struck me: every Friday, the gate of NDA is thrown open and everybody has access to pray in the mosque.

“On Fridays, you are going to see same thing happening across all military formations in the country…If you go to Defence Headquarters, I served at the Defence Headquarters as the Deputy Director, Defence Administration between 2015 and 2017, throughout my two years at the Defence Headquarters, I received visitors twice because of the strict security architecture there but every Friday, the gate of the Defence Headquarters is thrown wide open for everybody to come in and observe Jumat.

“That is the time the terrorists have the time to profile our security environment. It has always been the case. I have served the military intelligence for the past 35 years. Our problem is religion and socio-cultural.”

Furthermore, Olawunmi, a Professor of Global Security Studies, said he was a member of the Intelligence Brief at the Defence Headquarters during the leadership of the then Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin (retd.).

The intelligence expert said he told the then CDS that the centre of gravity of the Boko Haram insurgency ravaging the North-East and spreading to other parts of Nigeria was the sponsors.

“I told General Olonisakin then that the centre of this problem cannot be solved the same way we solved the problem of the Niger Delta. The Niger Delta problem was solved during (Ex-President Umaru) Yar’adua basically by me and I told them that we can’t use that same template for Boko Haram.

“I told General Olonisakin to look at the centre of gravity of the problem. I was made a member of the committee in 2016-2017 including (Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahi) Attahiru that died.

“I told them that the centre of gravity of Boko Haram in Nigeria is the sponsors of the programme. It was beyond us because the job we needed to do was kinetic but we cannot resolve issues of sponsors of Boko Haram that were in Buhari’s government that we know them. That was why we couldn’t pursue that aspect that could have resolved the issue because we need to arrest people.”

‘Why Buhari refused to prosecute 400 Boko Haram sponsors'

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, had earlier in the year said the Nigerian Government arrested some Bureau De Change operators who were facilitating the transfer of money to Boko Haram terrorists.

Olawunmi said the government has not been able to prosecute the sponsors because it is allegedly partisan.

He said, “Recently, 400 people were gathered as sponsors of Boko Haram, why is it that the Buhari government has refused to try them? Why can’t this government bring them to trial if not that they are partisan and part of the charade that is going on?

“You remember this Boko Haram issue started in 2012 and I was in the military intelligence at that time. We arrested those people. My organisation actually conducted interrogation and they (suspects) mentioned names. I can’t come on air and start mentioning names of people that are presently in government that I know that the boys that we arrested mentioned. Some of them are governors now, some of them are in the Senate, some of them are in Aso Rock.

“Why should a government decide to cause this kind of embarrassment and insecurity to the sense of what happened yesterday (Tuesday at the NDA)?” he queried, adding that terrorist financiers want to turn Nigeria to Taliban type of country.

‘DSS has information on terrorism sponsors but can’t act without Buhari’s order’

Olawunmi also said that the Department of State Services has tremendous information on terrorists but they can’t do anything except the body language of the Commander-In-Chief.

He, however, expressed hope that the next Nigerian President in 2023 might have the willpower to bring the high-profile sponsors of Boko Haram to book.

The PUNCH had earlier reported that a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Obadiah Mailafia, said in August 2020 that repentant terrorists revealed that a serving northern governor is a Boko Haram leader.

For over 10 years, the Boko Haram terror group had killed hundreds of Nigerians in the North-East. The sect had also burnt down and bombed scores of villages as well as churches. The Nigerian Army and the Presidency had at several times claimed the group had been ‘technically defeated’ and ‘weakened’ but the bloodthirsty terrorist faction continues to strike with daring effrontery and crude savagery.

https://punchng.com/terrorists-named-current-govs-senators-aso-rock-officials-as-sponsors-during-interrogation-ex-naval-officer/

DubaiLandLord:
Nah because the Government they do as if they do not know about what he is saying am talking about inviting him. I'm sure there are some white paper report that have been summited in the past they can just go through.


I have no problem with the DSS inviting anybody for questioning. But it shouldn't be done like that of Sunday Igboho own.

Sunday Igboho house was attacked late in the night, they shot dead two innocent civilians, and kidnap the rest.

But this government is clueless, even the BDC operators they told us were funding Boko Haram months ago, we no hear anything about them.

Litmus:
I still dont get it, what did this naval officer with 35 years of meritorious service in the Nigerian military intelligence reveal?
Which national figures did he name to begin with before evidence can be sort?

Please o I have no ego when it comes to learning...