₦airaland Forum

ocelot2006:
Correction: These scorpions are the FIRST vehicles/equipments purchased by the Buhari administration. With the exception of the 12 MRAPs donated by the American Army, EVERY new equipment/weapons currently in use from firearms (Beryl rifles, Tavor TAR 21s, Galil Aces, FN FS2000s, FN P90s, etc) to vehicles (REVA Mraps, Bigfoots, T72A1 and M1 series MBTs, BTRs, Streit Spartans MK2s and 3s, Toyota Landcruisers, BVPs, etc), aircrafts (new Mi-35M, Mi-24, Augusta 109s, repaired C-130s and G-333s, the Maritime Recon ATR-48, 2 Alphajets E, Army Air Corps Gazelle Scout helos, and the E-125s, etc) and drones (UAVs and UCAVs) where ALL PURCHASED AND DELIVERED under GEJ's watch, NOT Buhari.

STICK TO THE TRUTH.

Very very wrong.
In between payment and receipt of some of these arms, there were periods of serious shortfall that the Buhari government had to intervene. The supplementary budge5 of 2015 was done to pay for these.

In any case all these weapons you listed are not up to 150million dollars and GEJ spent at least 10 billion on defence and security in three years, where is all the money gone?

Splinz:
What nonsense! Was GEJ banned from seeing Buhari? Or is OBJ now a forerunner?

I think Jona actually ran away before o.
Anyway , this our former President should still get seven years.

BOKO52:
Only in Nigeria you will see a president been
chickened by a group in NIger Delta and he
cancelled his trip to Ogoni land and Senegal for
the fear of Unknown.
Try that in America and you will see SWAT
team,CIA,FBI etc.only in movie though!

If the Secret Service tells POTUS not to go somewhere, he does not ever go. Buhari could have visited I go island easily and went back safe but it would have had to be like a conqueror not a President.

For you though you can enjoy the consolation prize of abusing the President but it is completely of no effect to what he is doing and what he will do.

Buhari has met Obj and GEJ in just a matter of days. Something is about to happen.

luckylucky:
Kudos to your contributions as a patriotic citizen of this great nation. Let me tell you your opinion will trigger a lot aggressive agitation and could possibly burn out to uncontrollable war further away from their region to the whole country. As offshore worker, I can tell you with my experience that our Navy cannot manage our coastguard. These navies are 80 percent young man who does not even have marine elementary personal survivals techniques talkless of hunting enemy. Let Buhari gives Jonathan open arms of friendship and total sense of belonging to this govt I can assure you that Tompolo will definitely control those our biggest brothers. A word is enough for the wise!

This is a simple capacity issue. I don't understand this level of thinking. What does all this have to do with anything?.

Is it the militants that are so good at what they do?. Rubbish.
The Nigerian n Navy , Army and NAF have the highest quality manpower in Nigeria outside the oil industry.

Nigerians have elevated settlement to high art and they can do anything for money, that is why anyone could suggest negotiating with Tom Polo. When you do that you are inspiring criminals.

Donjazzy12:
First off, Niger Delta Avengers is a creation of Tompolo tacitly supported by Jonathan. The whole idea is to force Buhari to come to the negotiation table and FG to abandon the legitimate case of graft it has against them.
PROS: If Buhari succumbs to this blackmail, the fight against corruption dies a natural death, militants becomes policy makers etc.Pipelines are safe.
CONS: If he fails to succumb, bombing of pipelines continue.
In a nutshell, this is what he must do.
1, Declare state of emergency in the affected LGA's. Push 80% of our Naval assets and some Helicopter gunships there. 2, Borrow from China to run budget for two years. 3, Never acknowledge or ever grant further amnesty to them. 4 Make an announcement anyone who habors Tompolo or any Avenger will have their houses demolished.
Watch as the idiotic militancy dies down in less than a year.

This is the same solution I have been canvassing.
The NDA has supporters who have been trying to confuse issues and asking for I'm possibilities.
Who told the IDIOTS that Buhari has the authority to negotiate away Nigerias sovereignty?.
Very young stupid fools

First of all we have to use our BRAINS.
NDA is not winning. A child who continues to throw his meals on the floor instead of eating is not winning against his parents.

NDA is doing Eco-terrorism and trying to force sovereignty from that. It is a very very easy problem.


FG should tell all oil companies to evacuate for one year and go after all the terrorists with full force. The idea that you cannot use force kills itself when you show the will that you don't negotiate sovereignty because of oil.
After that, you begin to bombard and kill the miscreants. Very simple. We can divert all budgeted monies to the ND for this.
You have to show madness. Nigeria is NEVER going to negotiate territory after fighting a bitter civil war that killed 3 million people. Anybody who has problems with Fulani people can go and sort it out on a tribe by tribe basis but Nigeria remains

GeneralShepherd:
Finally Buhari's acquires equipment for the military after one in office

This is very ignorant of you, Buhari has bought many batches of equipment since he came into office. He has also ensured that all equipment ordered by the Jonathan regime are delivered accurately as per contract terms. Always fingers out the truth.

As for these vehicles, it is a mistake to have bought them as a component of base defence. We should have modified a locally assembled vehicle and asked the company to rig it up with the same equipment that receive the signals from control rooms when the Base defence CCTV detect intruders

Please bomb everything. Buhari needs an excuse and you are giving him one . He will move robustly and sift the Niger Delta. We don't even want the crude oil again. We want spend the next two years killing militants, pirates, cultists and illegal oil refiners.

There will be no more distraction from oil production. Let the MILITARY NOW DO THEIR JOBS

Splinz:
Seems this man has a better idea about governance. I think he has my vote anytime he's in for the race.

Really?. What is caustic power? Did you even read this article?. Yes the corrupt PDP tied Nigeria too much to vulnerable Niger Delta gas pipelines but i am sure Atiku did not advise Obj against it and he cannot be more qualified for President than a lot of smarter people we have around

themall:
Looks like boat ride in eyo festival. Dem wan flush out cockroaches and rats...

That's is the international standard for military river craft. Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, US, Russia all have shallow water craft following that design. Sri Lanka defeated a set of militants more powerful than Boko Haram and this new fake NDA using this same design of boats.

The NDA will double Nigerias defence budget next year and increase defence expenditure this year. They will boost the careers of Nigerian Army and Airforce officers and we may see massive recruitment into NSCDC. This is what we have been clamouring for.

oduastates:
Unfortunately, I doubt the show of force will achieve much. Soft targets like pipelines run through inaccessible and indefensible parts of the delta. Even the pipelines that run through the more urban SW are routinely vandalised by Creek rats.
If only the country had shown more seriousness in defending other sectors of the economy like the vigor they are showing with oil.

Why are you talking like this?
The militants are operating from new camps that can be detected from.the air. Some are in nearby communities to oil installations. They need to get on a boat and travel back to whatever. That is 30 minutes at the least.
It takes an Alpha jet just 15minutes to get to the area from PHC. So after a bombing just draw a circle on a map and send two jets to blow things out of the water.
If you combine the airforce and Naval / Army elements even better.

YOU WISH that 90 per cent of southerners were tired of Buharis government
You guys are just a bunch of jokers.

Dizzy Baby, you corrupt o.

lilprinze:
Buhari and APC have nothing positive to offer this country

They do and will succeed in re positioning Nigeria

Why is there so much ignorance in Nigeria? Also so much intellectual laziness. Guerilla warfare is dead. It died in the 80s. Also the idea that the Niger Delta terrain is a big mystery to the Nigerian Army, Navy and Nigerian Airforce is a big ERROR. What is mysterious about a region that has 6 big multinational companies.

Soldiers and other security agencies have been operating there for decades. I have interacted with many northern soldiers in the Niger Delta sinice 1989.

Generals like Danjuma, Abacha, Obj and many others cut their teeth in the area. In fact two of the ones I just mentioned had loads of girl friends in the area in the 70s. These people are so familiar with the ND and it's people that they were the ones who put names of Rivers indigenes forward for appointment during the military regimes. Atiku as well- very familiar with the ND.

As for terrain, all satellies maps and air surveillance on the Niger Delta show up more clearly to the military than Sambisa forests.

The resort to violence by NDA is a very great mistake and the single out of Chevron facilities for destruction is the mistake if the century.
Buhari made two strategic visits to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea last month, the US is now on board with defence intelligence, the NAF will soon get more surveillance and precision strike gadgets and Security and Civil Defence NSCDC had its budget tripled in 2016 .
All the pieces are in place.

Flets:
Now lets face it.... Nigeria as we know it have gone to the dogs. Balkanization is imminent unless we salvage it through True Federalism.
Maybe Buhari is the man needed to help grind Nigeria to a halt where True federalism becomes attractive to hard sworn opponents.

Who in his right senses would ever think force would restore crude production in the Niger Delta. Both History and common sense has proven its impossible to increase oil production in the face of insurgency. Even the major oil companies cannot continue production amidst explosions and crossfires. The more Buhari mobilizes warships, gunboats and military to the region, the more the IOCs evacuates their personnel and services from the region.

What is so hard about understanding that there is no hope for a united Nigeria without True Federalism? What is wrong with the black man?

The funny enough things is that enough force will restore crude oil production in Niger Delta. Please take it from me that i know what i am talking about. Extreme force, intense poverty and suffering will restore sanity there. It is just that it should be applied in stages.

Mixty:
The number of policy somersault by the government is alarming:
Yesterday: We won't increase fuel price
Today: they increase fuel price
Yesterday: We won't privatize refineries.
Yesterday: We will privatize refineries by December
etc etc

And now.....

Yesterday: We will make 1 naira equal to 1 dollar
Today: We won't devalue the Naira at 199Naira to 1 dollar
Tomorrow: We will devalue Naira (flexible forex)

This government is the most clueless and confused government ever in the history of Nigeria

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You are also grossly inexperienced in anything.
What the government is doing is called strategic agility. The oil market has crashed, that is a static reality but there are other constantly changing events like the quantity of oil we are actually selling, the price of the fuel we are importing , the weak exports etc. C. Everything is constantly changing and very fast. Under those conditions you just don't sit tight, besides the MPC and exchange rates are CBN issues that the FG usually does not interfere with.

Tuktuk:
my point exactly. solar panels are very expensive. we have enormous coal deposits in enugu and other places what is wrong with building coal fired plants like most or all developed nations? they preach climate change but practice that in reality. Nigerian Government should do as they do not as they say.
secondly id because of pipeline vandalization the government is thinking of diversifying our energy sources, then we are in a sorry state. why dont the Government find a lasting solution to that problem while we continue to harness other sources. that i think is what a serious minded and proactive government does.
finally the decision to build generating plants right where the energy source is,is a welcomed development,however the unity and interdependency of different parts of this country should be put into consideration in all of this. this is what makes Nigeria a nation.

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So many calculations are showing coal fired plants more expensive than solar because you have to fluidize the coal to burn properly and then after burning you have to install expensive flue gas treatment to meet Kyoto accords.
If you start investing in solar however, I am quite sure the US and Europe will pay up to half of it if we know what grants to tap

cktheluckyman:
Bros read again.Herdsmen have not been banned.Nomadic Cattle grazing is what has been banned.The herdsmen are free to buy up lands and ranch their cattle.

That's is just what I am saying , you cannot decree against nomadic lifestyle. The FG even has an ade cations system to cater to their lifestyle. You don't government in the modern world with knee jerk reactions and sentiments. Only a small per cent age of these guys are killers.

Rxpetite:
Every state has a right to allow or deny herdsmen access to her territory.
Not all herdsmen are evil but one has to be careful. When boko haram started, northerners treated these issues with kid gloves until it started to torment them. They knew the members but protected them until they became uncontrollable. As far as I'm concerned, Northerners grew, groomed and nourished boko haram.
Here in the south we will not tolerate any act of terrorism especially from the north. We have our own issues to deal with.
They ask why we reacted differently to the kidnap of amina and ese ? The answer is simple;
Northern terrorists kidnap their northern schoolgirls in their northern territory and we Southerners can only show our concern(#bringbakourgirls ) and caution the north.
Northern assholes kidnap southern girls from southern territory and we will in orubebe's words , not take it.
States which can monitor the herdsmen can let them roam. If fayose cannot guarantee the security of his state from herdmen, he has every right to ban them from the on set to avoid stories that touch. people learn from their mistakes but smart people learn from other's mistakes.

No state can ban cattle herdsmen or any Nigerian. You can regulate them and arm hunters for self protection of communities with Police oversight but you cannot ban herdsmen

IGNORAMUSES

These gun boats are very capable. They are refurbished for engine power and gunnery calibre upgrade. The very thick fibre glass hulls will stop .50 calibre munitions and self seal. They won't stop RPGS but the a good boat Driver will maneuver to prevent direct hits.
Most NA gun boats also have fore and aft mounting of 12.7mm machine guns and a few grenade launchers.

Operational tactics is evolving to emphasise convoy boat movement with helicopters keeping watch from miles away.

No Niger Delta militant group can match the NA in terms of resources. We have not even started of Navy SBS operations that you won't even see until they are blowing you away. They will watch you singing songs in your camp with night vision Googles and keep tabs. Niger Delta militants are good in water abi? What about people who come from under water and can call on surface and air elements to blast you away?.
Please let us stop childishNess on Nairaland.

Vincef:
1. Rotimi Amaechi (the corrupt liverless man)
2. Chris Ngige ( sit-down look minister)
3. Lai Mohammed (the man who asked youth to seek job in dressing the masquerade of his fathers house lol)
4. Onu (the visionless man who wanted to import grass)
5. Solomon Dalung (the visionless man who agreed to payment of 5k to 1m youth. Rubbish!).

Also, PMB kindly find time to plant the impeachment of that northern governor who commissioned a manually operated borehole as a project to mark his 1 year in office.

Amaechi, Onu and Chris Nigeria are good. D'alung is a mistake in office , L'ai Mohammed has embarrassed government three times so far but Buhari will not sack him. He might be reassigned another ministry.

funlord:





Good!



That minister of interior 'Dambanza abi na dambuzu' needs to _fuck off!

Agreed about DanBazzau. The NSCDC is under him but there is still pipeline bombing. His budget is the third highest yet we are not seeing action on securing borders or regulating cattle herdsmen. They need to be properly registered, given entry passes and designated routes so that they don't stray unto farmlands. Ifor they have IDs, you can filter out the killers amongst them and descendants on them

This is MEND a Niger Delta militant group saying the truth about Jonathan's government. Jonathan himself h8nted at the corruption of his own government before he left office.

It is very important for PDP supporters to come to terms with hard truth about Jonathan. He was Clueless and Corrupt, very lax with defence and security and lack8ng leadership skills. When the truth stares you in the face you adm8t it. It does not give the APC any advantage to blast Jonathan. If anything it rebrands the PDP and makes the issue one of one person and his clique instead of corruption being a party ideology. This is how they manage election defeat in advanced countries

This is much better than banning herdsmen. Banning them is illegal but every community should be able to defend itself.

amuokuko:
Oga close mouth..

we want the north to ban non hausa from their states..
At least it will hasten our demand...

The OP did not post this well. Fayose and his supporters are fools. He does not have the constitutionAl power to do this. If other states follow suit and the herdsmen cannot find grass for their cattle they will be unemployed. God help West Africa for what will then happen. Stop following clueless Yoruba politicians

There are so many jokers on Nairaland. PDP will not win elections in another 20 years. They have not remade the party.Nigerians are very sophisticated. PDP needs to push their technocrats if they want power - all the local chappions Fayose, Metuh, Sekondus and Sheriff. Everybody knows them as crooks. More importantly , everybody knows them too much..period. It is boring.

SillyeRabbit:
[size=15pt]But how do you want Nigerians to believe this story ? Do you have an insider in the camp of Bokoharam who give out info to you guys ? SMH. NIGERIA MILITARY and LIES be like [/size]

It is disappointing that you don't know now that NA has insiders deep in Boko Haram and Boko Haram also hado hundreds of informants in the NA at some time

Some of the intelligence help from the US involves monitoring all their radio and GSM comms and breaking the codes whatever language on earth they are using.
I believe some surveillance gear can also listen to voices from some miles away.

DedeNkem:
This is what this fool called, Buhari, should have done earlier but instead the id*iot thought we were still in military regime, and started threatening militant with military action! Then pipeline vandalism became worse after the threat.

It has become obvious to him that he dumb threat was a blunder, after it cost Nigeria billions naria of lost revenue, he now wants to negotiate!

Your guys will eventually push your luck with this attitude and this language. I believe Shell is the company that has pressured the FG to sheath swords.
Most ND people have this kind of dumb attitude you just showed here. I have seen it in Nembe, Okrika, Southern Ijaw and even Abonema. A kind of anarchist kill me I want die attitude. When the bullets start cracking they all disappear.

Buhari should not have dialogued with any body. I am disappointed that the politicians and business men have taken over.
Hopefully the millitants will reject terms so that FINAL SOLUTION can be delivered to this problem

Seeeeeeee:
Return all the oil wells to Niger Deltans so that we can control our God given resources thereby create wealth & jobs for our youths, we don advance pass amnesty because it benefit's only few people.

They are not your resources. They are Nigeria's. You cannot be blowing up other people's assets built with billions and damaging the environment. I don't support Buhari on dialogue. It isks the bases of all sort of corruption and it won't help the idiots of...sorry, people of the Niger Delta.