Nigeria Needs Quality Weapons to Defeat BokoHaram Insurgency

This morning I shared with Friends an interview of an Ex-military chief with the Nation Newspaper tittled "Ex-military chief: Troops lack proper arms to fight".

Everything he said there about BokoHaram insurgency is the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth.

He boldly stated that: “90 per cent of the arms Boko Haram uses are from the troops. They collected them after attacking military bases." This means that it is the Nigerian government that is funding and arming BokoHaram terrorists. Can we now remember the historic declaration of Sheikh Zakzaky on this issue?

If BokoHaram gets 90% of it weapons from the Nigerian army, the remaining 10% they use the money they get from the Nigerian government from ransom payments after mass kidnapping of school children to buy weapons, salaries, feeding and logistics.

• "Soldiers battling Boko Haram in Hilux vans with outdated guns" he said. Total lack of weapons and equipment in the fight against BokoHaram insurgency despite the huge yearly budgets. Billions earmarked every year and billions looted every year.

Due to lack of equipments Nigerian soldiers are using soft-skin vehicles Hilux vans instead of Mines Resistance Armoured Personnel Carrier (MRAP) in the battlefront. Hilux vans are easy targets that a pump action gun will penetrate and destroy. Funds that should be use to buy Resistance Armoured Personnel Carrier (MRAP) are looted by Criminal Buratai and his likes. MRAP will resist fire, Hilux vans will not.

The ex-military officer said: “Due to lack of sufficient and right equipment, arms and ammunition, troops have witnessed a situation when 35 Boko Haram fighters displaced 500 soldiers.”

He added: “I was part of Operation Lafiya Dole.  Our troops have insufficient equipment, arms and ammunition. Most of the tanks you see are old.

It is shocking that a country like Nigeria that is battling a murderous insurgency does not have Helicopter Gunships with night fighting facility. A responsible government will get 20 Helicopter Gunships and wipe out BokoHaram from existence. Nigerian soldiers also need night fighting goggles.

Hear him:

“What we need is to get six helicopter gunships with night fighting capability. We can finish Boko Haram battle within three months or four. We know where they are."

On a final note, more than 50,000 innocent Nigerians have been killed in this bloody BokoHaram insurgency and the killing is ongoing. Those that will loot funds to but weapons are disciples of Satan.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
Elbinawi.

There is no Nigeria again there is Yoruba Nation Biafra and Aarewa at this time

Jokes of the day. So the same weapon seized by boko are not quality and they r busy tormenting NA with same weapon? Tell us another story

So what happened with our $1 billion? Nigerians Don enter one chance be that.

What DICON purpose again?

Mumus celebrating newly acquired jets and weapons paid for with over half of foreign income.

A country is making these and selling them at unaffordable prices for profit.

Little countries like North Korea, South Korea and Israel are making highly sophisticated jets, rockets and weapons while a country of over 200m made up of cow head diseases are begging to buy so that they can loot.

Make your own weapons.

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There is no Nigeria again there is Yoruba Nation Biafra and Aarewa at this time

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