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Lies concocted under the scorching sun of the Sahel.

8 years...same talk...less results.

Useless Army being controlled by useless leaders.

Set to

[Nike] - Just Do It (and shun the unnecessary the media publicity)

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SATANICALLY666:
*Says operations now reinvigorated, optimistic about positive results soon



https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/08/07/army-chief-were-set-to-take-battle-to-terrorists-enclaves/

Awon eyan lie Mohammed


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIhaHT8JKBQ

Ehen, wonderful

Sorry for the gods

Lwkmd... You are deceiving yourselves

AFONJACOW:
Sorry for the gods

It is "story for the gods" not "sorry for the gods" ... You are indeed a cow

On your Marks!
Get Set!!
....

Hope you will not forever remain on Get Set

Why telling us? Take the battle to them and give result, we are interested in the result not the talking that will not do you or the masses any good.

All na wash

Oga chief of army staff becareful of your northern brothers. ..that was exactly what the immediate past army chief said and today he is history....plan your coordinates and attack secretly ooo!

Am king David.God eye.if you want to build strong relationship with God.follow me up

TOO EARLY AFTER A DECADE.

Funny you.

Yes I know it's not easy but why have you guys been playing defence game all the while rather than attack those killers in their hideout.

If it were to be IPOB, you know how to kill those innocent people who are tired of such an unfruitful union called Nigeria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QHYLjB9vl8&t=1594s
Understand righteousness

Stupid people. So, you need to announce it? I can't be fooled. The news is for the gullible.

Yeye people. So, you need to announce it? I can't be fooled. The news is for the gullible.

While I pray that you succeed I don't see accepting Bokoharam surrender as an achievement, you must kill them on sight and immediately

SATANICALLY666:
*Says operations now reinvigorated, optimistic about positive results soon



https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/08/07/army-chief-were-set-to-take-battle-to-terrorists-enclaves/

They had to make this public so the terrorist can also be prepared… ‘’Awon Oponu’’

The Atlantic:
GLOBAL NEWS :
Nigerian Military Officers Court-Martialed for Giving Boko Haram Weapons
Ten Nigerian generals and five military officers were found guilty of providing arms and information to Boko Haram, the terrorist group which has taken responsibility for kidnapping schoolgirls and a number of deadly terrorist attacks.
The suspects include about 10 generals and other ranks, not to talk of soldiers who have been found culpable of sabotaging our operations. They are facing trial before court-martials set up by their divisions; some have been found guilty, and some are still facing trial. Once the court martial rule, the recommendations are forwarded to the Army Headquarters or Defense Headquarters as the case may be.

Another source revealed to the paper that four others had been charged with disloyalty, adding, "they were found guilty of being disloyal and for working for the members of the sect," and that others are being investigated.

The Associated Press reported that politicians and soldiers had been telling them for months that some officers were helping Boko Haram.
This, they say, is part of why it's been so difficult — and dangerous — for the army to battle Boko Haram or to rescue the still-missing girls or the people kidnapped.

This article is from the archive of our partner The Wire.

Danielle Wiener-Bronner is a former staff writer for The Wire. Her work has appeared in The Huffington Post and Reuters


The World News Report.

How stolen weapons keep groups like Boko Haram in business:
Last November, when Boko Haram militants raided an army base in Metele, a village in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state, the deaths of dozens of soldiers sent shockwaves across the country. The nation thought it was winning the war against Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa province, its splinter group.

In the run-up to national elections, critics blamed incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari — elected on a promise to put an end to Boko Haram — for the attack. He and his government downplayed the carnage and warned against “fake news” being spread by extremists.

Politicians rowed over reasons for the attack, citing weak strategy and underpaid, ill-equipped troops. But the debate largely missed an aspect of the raid — one of several that month in Nigeria’s restive northeast — that posed a further threat to security.

Terror groups often make off with weapons belonging to peacekeeping missions and militaries, and a new report released this week tries to measure the scope of the problem.

Each time Boko Haram and ISWAP overpowered a military base, they seized caches of assault rifles and hundreds or thousands of rounds of ammunition they could use in later strikes, fuelling their bloody rebellions.

After Metele, ISWAP gloated about carting away four tanks among other vehicles. The militants replace the striped flags with Boko Haram’s black-and-white logo. Such hauls raised the group’s prowess, as well as its firepower.

The problem extends beyond Nigeria, said Eric Berman, director of the Small Arms Survey, a research group that released an 81-page study into guns, bullets and other gear ending up in the wrong hands.

Related: Over 100 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram return home

The forces — mainly African troops but also European and US militaries — who tackle insurgents in Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Mali and other hotspots have, at various times, lost Kalashnikovs and mortars to the very groups they were sent to fight.

The problem of lost weapons is old, but the quantity lost is greater than many force commanders appreciate, Berman said. This can lead to longer wars with more chaos and bloodshed.

Cameroonian soldier stands near tank with Boko Haram logo on it.
A Cameroonian soldier stands on a Nigerian armored vehicle used by Boko Haram insurgents to attack a Cameroon army patrol near Waza, Feb. 17, 2015. Credit: Bate Felix Tabi Tabe/Reuters
It’s not just in Africa that these arms are falling into the hands of insurgents. NATO units deployed in Afghanistan have lost fights — and weapons — to the Taliban, the report says. A European Union mission to Libya lost almost 100 small arms and some 40,000 rounds of ammunition to thieves at Tripoli airport in 2014.

“Counterinsurgency missions are deployed in difficult areas against tough opponents,” Berman said.

“[Counterinsurgency missions] are coming under attack and they’re losing a lot of lives — and weaponry. The armed groups are becoming stronger as a result of the lethal material they claim from peacekeepers who are ostensibly there to defeat them.”

Eric Berman, director, Small Arms Survey
“They’re coming under attack and they’re losing a lot of lives — and weaponry. The armed groups are becoming stronger as a result of the lethal material they claim from peacekeepers who are ostensibly there to defeat them.”

In some cases, entire battalions are overrun, like in Boko Haram’s rout of a military base and 700 troops in Jilli, in Yobe state, in July 2018. In others, rebels hit patrols of a dozen soldiers and make off after loading up with guns and ammo.

Weapons airdrops to resupply peacekeepers can fall into the wrong hands. Convoys are prone to raids. Underpaid soldiers from morale-sapped units have been known to make cash trading guns on the side, Berman said.

The true scale of the problem is unknown — top brass typically keep quiet about missing field artillery. At the very least, “crates and crates” of thousands of weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition have been lost to the bad guys, Berman said.

Related: Saudi Arabia is buying more weapons than ever before

There are also reports of sniper rifles, field artillery and armored vehicles going astray. Particularly desirable among insurgents are “technicals,” regular civilian off-road trucks that have been fitted with machine guns, rocket launchers or other hardware.

"When a peacekeeping base gets overrun, the raid and its death toll is the headline. ... But somebody also needs to track how many guns, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition rounds, vehicles, uniforms and IDs are seized and used in subsequent attacks."

Paul Williams, security expert, George Washington University
"When a peacekeeping base gets overrun, the raid and its death toll is the headline,” said Paul Williams, an expert on security threats at George Washington University.

“But somebody also needs to track how many guns, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition rounds, vehicles, uniforms and IDs are seized and used in subsequent attacks."

Berman laments little progress since the early 1990s, when Charles Taylor, leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia militia, used guns and vehicles swiped from West African peacekeepers in a civil war that claimed more than 150,000 lives.

“A generation later, one would hope we were much better prepared to deal with these environments. But we’ve seen few gains and armed groups continue to secure a lot of material from peacekeepers,” Berman said.

He is particularly vexed by northeast Nigeria, where Boko Haram’s decade-long revolt has spilled across the country’s borders and killed between 27,000-37,530 people and forced some 2 million more from their homes.

ISWAP split from Boko Haram in 2016 and is trying to carve out its own caliphate, with ties to the recently-defeated group in Syria. It is fighting a multinational task force, comprised of troops from Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

A rash of strikes by both groups this past year has been “game-changers” in the conflict, Berman said. The thousands of weapons and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition they have seized will be killing and maiming for some time yet.

Morale is a key factor too: Underpaid troops are more likely to scarper during raids, according to Berman.

Nigerian troops complain about commanders pocketing some of their salaries, not having enough to eat and of Boko Haram fighters having a better kit. “I’m taking a knife to a gunfight,” one soldier told Reuters.

Similar problems exist across the continent, where al-Shabaab rebels have refined the art of getting guns off peacekeepers in Somalia.

Related: As al-Shabab expands, they attract vulnerable youth across all faiths

Kenyan troops with AMISOM, the African Union force in Somalia, lost more than 150 assault rifles, 26 machine guns, five mortars and 140,000 rounds of ammunition when al-Shabaab hit their camp at el-Adde, southwestern Somalia, in January 2016.

In June 2015, Burundian troops lost a comparable cache of more than 100 assault rifles, 20 machine guns, anti-tank weapons and mortars when the al-Qaeda-linked fighters attacked them in Leego, southwestern Somalia.

“Al-Shabaab are planned and deliberate. They launch suicide car attacks on Kenyan, Ugandan or Burundian forces at dawn. They’ll recover weapons and use them in future attacks. ... But they’ll sell between a quarter and a half of their haul to businessmen and give that money to their troops as bonuses to boost morale. It’s a big problem that doesn’t get enough attention.”

Abdi Noor Mohamed, independent Horn of Africa security consultant
Man stands near weapons laid out on tarps in the desert.
Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage stands among weapons believed to be recovered from Burundian peacekeepers from the African Union suspected to have been killed during fighting in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, Oct. 21, 2011. Credit: Feisal Omar/Reuters
“Al-Shabaab are planned and deliberate. They launch suicide car attacks on Kenyan, Ugandan or Burundian forces at dawn. They’ll recover weapons and use them in future attacks,” said Abdi Noor Mohamed, an independent Horn of Africa security consultant.

“But they’ll sell between a quarter and a half of their haul to businessmen and give that money to their troops as bonuses to boost morale. It’s a big problem that doesn’t get enough attention.”

According to Berman and others, it’s a tough nut to crack. In life-or-death battles with insurgents, peacekeepers are already motivated to defend their bases — as well as their lives and their arms caches — when enemies strike.

Still, commanders can do better jobs of tracking caches, particularly arms recovered from captured insurgents. Airdrop and convoy procedures can be tightened. Paying soldiers more and boosting morale could go a long way to stopping light hands in weapons depots, Berman added.

“Preventing unexpected battle losses is almost impossible for peace operations. ... But they must do more to ensure that arms and ammunition are not diverted or lost through other means, such as abandonment, illicit transfers, corruption and poor management of recovered material.”

Paul Williams, security expert, George Washington University
“Preventing unexpected battle losses is almost impossible for peace operations,” Williams said. “But they must do more to ensure that arms and ammunition are not diverted or lost through other means, such as abandonment, illicit transfers, corruption and poor management of recovered material.”

There is no magic bullet to halt insurgencies, Berman added. During civil wars, there is often no shortage of guns and other gear circulating on the black market, and governments have been known to arm the rebels next door.

Nigerian Army Secretly Releases Over 1000 Ex-Boko Haram Fighters In Borno
The military in 2016 launched Operation Safe Corridor, an initiative for the deradicalisation and rehabilitation of ex-Boko Haram members.The Nigerian Army on Wednesday released 1,009 ex-Boko Haram insurgents, who had been in military custody at Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
The former terrorists were handed over to the Borno State Government in a secret ceremony that was initially billed to take place at an earlier date but was suspended indefinitely by the military authorities at the wake of the appointment of the Chief of the Army Staff, Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya.According to sources in the army, the ex-terrorists were handed over to the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zuwaira Gambo, who represented the state government at the event.

Speaking with Punch, an officer said, “The army handed 1,009 Boko Haram insurgents to the state government today (Wednesday). It was done in secret. We were warned not to allow journalists to the venue.”

The military in 2016 launched Operation Safe Corridor, an initiative for the deradicalisation and rehabilitation of ex-Boko Haram members.

Efforts to reach the 7 Division’s Army Public Relations Officer, Operation Hadin Kai, Col. Ado Isa, proved abortive.

So who is fooling who?

So they had to announce it, in order words giving the terrorist intel.

SATANICALLY666:
*Says operations now reinvigorated, optimistic about positive results soon



https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/08/07/army-chief-were-set-to-take-battle-to-terrorists-enclaves/

Who is he telling? Bringing his big mouth to the media. Now he will say the media is sabotaging his missions

Mynd44 as an obvious insincere mod and harbouring deep hate for igbos.you had to allow your co Igbo-hater op to use Nnamdi Kanu's picture for that topic.

It's looking glary that you are the op using another moniker but your hate for Igbos will consume you.
Very unfair.

Lalasticlala Seun this guy is messing up
That's the TRUTH.

After the armed men have done with masses their attacks will be expanded to the high calibre people.

So let them continue watching slaughtering the poor their turn will be worse.

The same you people will go behind the scene and sabotage the effort of our soldiers, mainly to eliminate Southern men.... North shud continue to kill themselves....I don't give a damn any longer since they support anything coming from North either good or bad.

Yinmu