₦airaland Forum

In a desperate letter to President Goodluck
Jonathan and Senate President David Mark
leaked to SaharaReporters this past
weekend, a commanding officer stationed in
Nigeria's northeast details several troubling
issues plaguing troops combatting Islamist
terror group Boko Haram in the region.
President Goodluck Jonathan
The officer stated that, corruption,
maladministration, lack of resources and troops
motivation has militated against a successful
campaign to end Boko Haram's deadly reign of
terror in the northeast.
The officer's lengthy complaint which he claims
would lead to a threat to his life forewarns that
if his pleas continue to be ignored by the
country's leadership that both the Nigerian Army
and the country will crumble under the
insurgency.
"If all issues raised in this letter are not urgently
addressed, the Nigerian Army will soon be
history and by implication there will be no
country called Nigeria," the officer gravely
states. "No country without a strong army will
survive."
Below is the full text of the officer's letter
addressed to President Goodluck Jonathan
PLEASE MR PRESIDENT SAVE THE MILITARY AND
NIGERIA FROM COLLAPSING
1. Sir, I am constrain to write you this letter
which I consider it a matter of more than great
importance for me to inform you and put to record
issues that are happening in the North East
(Operation Zaman Lafiya). I choose this medium
to write you this open letter because I have written
similar letter but no action was taking which I
believe some forces have blocked it are now after
my life. Sir I have served in 7 Division as staff
officer and presently I am the commanding officer
of 103Bn in the field. My combined wealth of
experience as a staff officer and now commanding
officer are the disturbing fact that necessitated me
to write you this letter. While as a staff officer, I
was among those who believed that the
commanders in the field are not doing well. But
presently, as a commander in the field, I found
out that it is not the fault of any commander that
the defeat of the so called BOKO HARAM (BH) has
not been achieved.
2. First and foremost sir, the Nigerian Army is
poorly equipped in the North East, if all the
battalions are well-equipped as required; it will
not take the Army more than two weeks to flush
out the BH. Presently there are four units in my
location here in KONDUGA including 21 Armoured
Brigade HQ. If all the units are provided with all
their requirements, we can advance and flush out
BH out of North East. Mr. President sir, the
Nigerian Army is well-trained and capable of
defending our nation. It has demonstrated the
capacity to even successfully enforce peace in
other nations. Why not in our own country
Nigeria?
3. The fact about NE operation is that we are
poorly equipped, understaffed, high corruption
from Army Headquarters down to battalion level.
Commanders see it as opportunity to make
money. My predecessor has complained of the
same problem. Instead of ASA addressing the
issue raised by him, the army authorities decided
to Court Martialled him. All the units in NE are
understaffed, but on payroll their strength are
complete just to collect more allowances than
what each unit is supposed to. The commanders
see it as a personal money making venture rather
than taking care of men and equipment. This ugly
trend led to loss of many officers and soldiers
and thereby having adverse effect on the moral
(sic) of troops. Majority of soldiers in the
operation area wear mufti (civil cloths) under their
military uniforms in case there is an attack and
the troops cannot withstand the BH, they found it
easy to disguise as civilians to enable them
escape. This is not the traditional practice in the
NA. Though it is lack of adequate equipment and
poor administration from the higher authority that
resulted to this ugly trend by our troops
4. Sir, another bad and unprofessional act is
that soldiers don’t take to orders from their
superior officers because they have lost
confidence/trust from them. The case of former
General Officer Commanding 7 Division Major
General A. Mohammed is enough evidence to
show that all is not well in the Nigerian Army. It
will interest you to note that worse cases has
been recorded before that of the former GOC and
more are still happening, but nobody is ready to
investigate the root cause of problems facing the
troops in the field.
5. This brings me to a recent occurrence which
is my main purpose of writing this letter. As I
mentioned earlier, due to the failure of the
authority to address issues that I made
mentioned, when a unit is attacked and overran by
the BH not because the soldiers are unable to
fight, but lack of weapons, ammunitions and
communications equipment, the soldiers on many
occasions will ran away, and a commander cannot
stand and fight alone as a result of this. Presently
seventy percent of commanders in the NE are
facing Court Martial due to the reasons
mentioned. We the commanding officers are very
worried over this development. This is because we
many soon find our self as victims of this
maladministration from our higher authorities.
6. There is no sincerity in this operation; this is
because the present acting GOC has never visited
any location outside Maiduguri town not to talk of
principal staff officers in Army Headquarters or
even the COAS. But we keep on hearing all sorts
of lies that Generals are leading the fight against
BH. These are facts that can be confirmed from
officers and soldiers in this operation including
those in the 7 Division Headquarters. The GOC is
so afraid that even with the Divisional
Headquarters; he doesn’t go out and always
locked himself inside his office. Infact it is a
common knowledge among officers and soldiers
in this operation that the acting GOC is here to
make his money and earn his promotion to the
detriment of the operation. The completion of his
mansion at No 8 Gwamna Road in Kaduna which
the GOC ignorantly disclosed that when he
completed it, will be among the best houses in
Kaduna, has turned to be a subject of discussion
among troops.
7. The former 21 Armored Brigade commander
is facing Court Martial today because the acting
GOC does not want to see him and his garrision
in Maiduguri town simply because of the huge
monthly allocations from the Borno State
government to the brigade garrision. He wanted to
be collecting his money by using 7 Div Garrison,
but in reality 7 Div Garrision does not have troops
to claim such money. It is worthy to note that the
GOC received 33,000litres of AGO and PMS each,
600 bags of rice monthly from Borno State
government. All these items are diverted for his
personal use.
8. Recently the newly appointed 21 Brigade
commander lead 3 units to flush out the BH, that
operation was successful, almost 300 BH were
killed, weapons and vehicles were recovered from
them, in the process the troops exhausted their
ammunitions from the Div, the GOC simply replied
that there was no ammunition this made all the
troops to withdraw back to KONDUGA.
9. Presently more than 3000 officers and
soldiers are either killed in action, deserted,
captured as POW or on AWOL. But due to lack of
proper administration the army directed that their
salary should be stopped. This affect the families
of those that are either genuinely killed in action
or captured as Prisoners of War. It has also
affected some of the troops that are still
participating in this operation.
10. Mr. President sir, if all issues raised in this
letter are not urgently address, the Nigerian Army
will soon be history and by implication there will
be no country called Nigeria. No country without
strong army will survive. I decided to write you
this letter because the life of officers and soldiers
trusted in my care are no longer save. My life is
also at the stake because the NA authority as
usual will say I have communicated directly to you
as the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces
and may sanction me. As a citizen of this country
and a commander in the operational area, with all
the points I have mentioned in this letter, it is
clearly that the Military authorities have failed the
country, as such they should be held liable for
their misdeeds. I have consulted seasonal
constitutional lawyers if writing you this letter will
be an offence, but they said it is my constitutional
right to inform the C in C about what is happening
in the NE and within the military which if not
address will affect the survival of Nigeria.

.

.

WombRaiders:
It is not enuff that your type is killing christians but now you want to lie on them

This is how you ediots blame isreal for every thing

Fool

Whoever told you boko haram are killing xtians only lied to you. I am in yola i know of so many Muslims who they kill. I am 100% you are an illetrate in your religion go and learn the bible i doesn't abuse anyone's religion.
For you is your religion, and for me is
my religion.

IYANGBALI:
why do muslims in the north always fight and kill people?

Those that fight and kill are not Muslims they are just blindfolded they don't know anything about Islam yet they call themselves Muslims and mind you they kill both Muslims and Christians that is the part where we must suspect jona-da.

WombRaiders:
If you don't want to be quoted then you should not post here

It is that simple

But before you go and join your riotious jihadist take a minute to reflect that you are just cementing our views on islam being a violent religion

Oritsejafor is the real image of xtians smuggling arms in the name of CAN. Is Christianity really a peaceful religion if ur CAN president is involved in a blackmarket arms deal?

egbaguy:
dan iska yaro.........wawa kawai,dan ubanka!!!!!!!!!!

You r a disgrace to ur ancestors

egbaguy:
u see ao stupid u are!!!!!!!!!! So badeh,gusau and NSA are all in support of jonathan and apc...........wawa kawai

If u ever quote me again i will lambast ur life dan durun uwa kawai ojukwu ma yaci gindin durin uwarsa jaki,akuya,alade,bunsuru,lata,soko irinka

egbaguy:
hausas are mumu I swear. Only fools believe jonathan is behind BH. CDS,defence minister,nsa are all northerners

The cds vacated his family in Adamawa infact he rarely visit Adamawa if Jona-daft is not behind it this could have stopped long ago

All what you guys are saying is off topic. The Imam preached last week that we the people of Yola should not run but rather stop and defend ourselves from boko boys which the government of goodluck failed to tackle. The riot started today when we gathered to perform Jum@ prayer and some people claimed that the district head of yola North have saked the Imam we started defending ourselves from clueless jona-daft supporters we are tired of all this we can not be slaves in our father land goodluck and his boko boys should note that.

smarthG:
This same man is gonna rule you till 2019.
You better start making up ur mind because its gonna shock you all.

Nigeria need peace and not a man that promiises war because he is closer to grave and has nothing to loose.

If Buhari has a good work to do, as an elder states man, he can advice n instruct not bringing more confusion for self glory!!!!!!!!!!!

IF SEUN Like let him delete my account like he did my Husbands own. The truth must be said at all cost.

Abeg if u get nothing to say don't ever quote me again. I am from Adamawa i know everything that goodluck and his security cabals planned b4 capturing Mubi. If any1 among the jona-daft supporters will give me a concrete reason why ur so called cds Alex Badeh take all his family out of mubi 2hours b4 boko haram attack the town, i will join your group to support Jona-daft.

Jona-daft lacks d qualities of a good leader. As a president he is not telling the truth datx a disaster

Undoubtedly, we are in the most challenging and convoluted period in our history as a sovereign and independent nation. Certain existential social realities have not only become intractable, but have dwarfed meaningful efforts designed to address them head on. The situation on the ground today is very worrisome as well as disturbing. What is currently playing out in our dear country is nothing different from a typical war situation. We are obviously in a ditch. Regrettably, no one, not even the system seems to be making any genuine effort to rescue the nation from the precipice. Some brainwashed, merciless and senile individuals masquerading as terrorists under an amorphous ragtag configuration called Boko Haram have not only held the nation by its jugular, but have made life unbearable for many Nigerians.





The reality of this dicey situation confronting us today can be seen in the rising figure of displaced persons, families and children presently taking refuge at different emergency settlements put in place by government agencies and non governmental organizations in some parts of the north east. It’s about time we told ourselves the blunt truth that all isn't okay and normal in our dear fatherland. Wanting to hide under any guise or narrow consideration to play down on the intensity of the disturbing situation in our Nigeria of today is indeed a sin in the sight of God almighty and crime against humanity. We cannot by any means hurriedly conclude that all is well and fine with us when we wake up daily to read gory, heartrending stories of how our fellow countrymen and women are slaughtered and buried in shallow graves like chickens.

Ideally, we should all be bothered by the horror and pains that Nigerians in the entire north-east are experiencing. Schools, hospitals, social, religious and commercial services have long given way to daylight bomb attacks and serial abductions of women and young school girls. We must all come to terms with the obvious fact that, insecurity in any part of Nigeria constitutes a huge security threat to the entire nation. One cannot really tell how these terror elements operate. So, it is completely wrong, unacceptable and condemnable for anyone or group of persons to roundly conclude that Boko Haram is simply a problem of just a section of Nigeria. To me, this attitude further fuels insecurity and emboldens these terror elements in their devilish mission to hasten Nigeria’s journey to Armageddon. It is high time we demanded genuine explanations from those who are prosecuting the insurgency war on the way forward. Keeping shut and acting as though all is well with us is a deadly venture.

These terrorists, after successfully registering their ugly presence in most parts of Borno State, with even a ‘caliphate’ in place, they have relocated to neighbouring Adamawa State, from where the group has been launching serious offensive in the last one week. Curiously, these attacks and successful relocations are going on at a time the federal government recently told the world that it had entered into a ceasefire agreement with the Boko Haram group. Besides, three of the six states in the northeast region have been under partial emergency rule in the last one year.

Many wonder how this group manages to operate in areas under full military watch! Just yesterday, Mubi, the home of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Alex Sabundu Badeh, came under serious attacks as terrorists, believed to be members of the Boko Haram sect invaded the town. Not satisfied with just attacking markets and other public places in the state, the daredevil guys took the battle to the military barracks located in the town. Media reports have it that armed military men literarily, sensing danger, deserted their barracks. Hell was however let lose yesterday. The situation created panic, confusion, disquiet, fears and uncertainty among residents of Mubi and several other adjoining towns within Adamawa state.

Many have summarily concluded that both the federal government and its military architecture are incapable of dealing with the situation head on. It appears that the more assurances we receive from our military and intelligence communities on the possibility of overcoming terrorism anytime soon, the fiercer the Boko Haram gets in its vicious attacks. From all indications, it appears that, concerned Nigerians, with particular reference to the government at the centre seem not to have the slightest clue as to how to end insurgency anytime soon. Well, forget the barrage of conjured lies usually presented to us in form of press statements assuring us of what the Federal Government is doing to send Shekau and his men packing.

We have heard all manner of lies since the very day Shekau made known his plans to make Nigeria a hell of a place

Blackchampion:
ABO.KI

wat is abo.ki?

Blackchampion:
Who come be dis Abo.ki (Amajiri) dis morning? huh?

Even ojukwu no fit call me dat name, u must be a pig olodo

Blackchampion:
Shebi na 9ja be dis? Reasons d 4 everything na.
Team GEJ till 2019.
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*****EDITED*****
Ok! Tambuwal u don hear am na, our Constitution don talk am. Oya all those security mek una run go Emeka Ihedioha side

Shebi u no sabi read? Did PDP sponsor tambuwal? He bought the ticket with his own money so this is clear dictatorship

We really need prayers. This nairaland is controlled by PDP atleast a single topic on mubi is supposed to be on f.p but they just keep it here. The lord will see us through

This morning as early as 5 a.m. I and my Personal
Assistant left Yola on our way to Maiha, luckily for me a
good Samaritan had allowed my daughter the use of
his phone and we spoke.
I told her exactly where to wait. By 8.40am we met
them weak, tired and with swollen feet. We were
supposed to be joyful but honestly we were not.
The magnitude of the humanitarian disaster that we
saw is better imagined than witnessed.
Men, women and Children some as young as a day old
were moving along the road heading for Pella from
where they hope to connect to Yola or other safer
locations.
It was a human catastrophe of monumental
proportions. Some headed their cattle and other
domestic animals on the journey to the unknown.
I saw about three children all less than 5 years old who
had lost contact with their parents. I saw a woman in
Labour.
I saw danger, I saw naked fear in the eyes of the
people as they moved towards an unknown
destination, I saw despondency and hopelessness.
The worst picture I saw is that of soldiers running
away; soldiers and civilians competed in entering a
tipper in Maiha!
I was dumbfounded!
Some of the soldiers begged us to take them but We
couldn't as there was no space in our vehicle.
The Mararraban Pella junction has now turned out to
be a Military cantonment of some sort. Hundreds of
Soldiers and their hardware are holed up there.
As we drove back, several things came to My mind.
How did this masifat start? When will this end? Who
will end it? How come our gallant soldiers run away
from combat? Who supplies the insurgents their
superior weapons? How come there is no word from
the Military Authorities on the latest attack on MUBI?
Meanwhile fighting is still going on in areas around
Vimtim. The insurgents are bent on reaching the
residence of the Chief of Defense Staff.
As of yesterday the safest place around Mubi was
Vimtim but by today that may not be the case. The
main market in Mubi was bombed this morning with
heavy losses in terms of goods but no reported
casualties.
I got across to one Iliya Mai Zane who went and saw
the damage in the market. Farmlands were also
abandoned.
One Isaac Inuwa a Pastor and Assistant General
Overseer of Triumph of Faith Church in Lamorde Mubi
who went to pick his kid from a private school was
reportedly killed by the insurgents yesterday in the
presence of his wife.
Many people trapped in the town including my
colleagues and some students of Adamawa State
University, Mubi are without electricity, water, food or
other essentials.
Those running to Yola do not know where to go. It's a
monumental disaster that is hidden by all the noise
about the politics of 2015 elections.
Another worry expressed by our people is the silence
of Government owned Media in the face of these
disasters.
Where is their social responsibility to our people?
What of the so called Media Center? We are waiting.

GEJ must go

The Transformation Ambassadors of
Nigeria, TAN, a group passionately
campaigning for a second term for
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, has
been hit by allegation of fraud, with some
members of the group accusing it of staging a
crowd in support of the president and refusing
to pay them as agreed.
Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria
rally in Port Harcourt
TAN has conducted regional rallies in support of
Mr. Jonathan since August, with the last of its
six conventions held in Kano, for the northwest,
which comprises Kano, Jigawa, Katsina, Sokoto,
Kebbi, Zamfara, and Kaduna States.
The Kano event held Saturday, September 27.
As with the previous five regional rallies, the
event was attended by senior officials of the
federal government, and thousands of
supporters.
Much of the crowd at the event was rented,
some aggrieved members of the group have told
PREMIUM TIMES.
The politicians, who are members of the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kano State,
and were drafted to be part of the TAN rally,
have narrated how they were asked to rent a
crowd for the president for an agreed fee, only
to be left stranded without money to
compensate hundreds of youth and women
hired for the rally.
The matter is threatening to tear the support
organization apart with the aggrieved members
threatening to seek redress and to expose the
sham they claim was on parade at the event.
The aggrieved agents now have a pile of debt to
settle and some of them who spoke with
PREMIUM TIMES say they do not know who to
talk to about the money they spent in bringing in
supporters.
One of the agents, Ibrahim Lawan, who said he
is the Secretary of the PDP Youth Awareness
Initiative, Kano, told PREMIUM TIMES that he
was instructed to bring in 500 youth and women
and to hire buses that will transport them to the
venue of the rally in Kano city.
The arrangement, according to Mr. Lawan, was
that each participant would be paid N500 on
arrival, and N2, 000 for each bus. Those
contracted to rent the crowd hired at least 50
busloads of supporters, he said.
The story changed once they arrived at the
venue, he told PREMIUM TIMES.
“But to my utmost surprise and confusion, as
we entered the venue we tried to locate the
organizers but we could not see them. When I
called them they said I should be patient as
they would settle everything after the event. But
almost immediately, we realized that the whole
thing is a scam because nobody was talking to
us again,” Mr. Lawan said.
He said they were left to source money and
settle some of the youth who became restive
and attacked them and their personal vehicles,
and seized their belongings, including phones.
“This left us in rancour with over 600 angry
youths who went wild due to frustrations of
spending lots of hours, no food or water and
also no available transportation back to their
various destinations,” he said.
Mr. Lawan said he managed to escape while
two of his guards were injured in the fray that
followed.
Students in the state, who were also asked to
put up a showing at the event, were treated the
same way, he said.
Another agent, Bello Dan Alkarya, also told
PREMIUM TIMES that he was asked to bring in
women and youth to the venue and would be
given N500 naira for each of them.
Mr. Alkarya said he did, but unlike Mr. Lawan,
he was short-changed as only N300 was paid
for each person transported to the rally venue.
TAN has no official representation in Kano,
PREMIUM TIMES understands. Our
correspondent, who made findings in Kano, was
told the group has only two resource persons
who are responsible for the entire northwest.
One of the officials, who agreed to speak, but
on the condition his identity be protected, said
he had received several complaints of people
short-changed by the group after the event.
“I simply told them I am not an insider into the
activities of TAN because I don’t know much
about them. We are only two of us in the whole
of North West Region and we don’t have any
office. The only way I get to them is when they
call me, I don’t know anything about them,” he
said.
“In fact, the only person who holds everything is
the owner of the group, Ifeanyi Uba. He is the
one who directed one Jibrin to make sure that
they get some people to bring in women and
youth. Now you can see that there is a problem
in the whole thing,” the man said.
TAN’s Director of Communication and Strategy,
Udenta Udenta, told PREMIUM TIMES in a
telephone interview on Saturday that the
association was not aware of the issue and
could not have been involved in such an
arrangement.
“Kano rally was our last rally. The response of
Nigerians to our objective and rallies was
spontaneous and they are full of passion and
conviction. From the South East rally to the
North West, that has been the trend.
“However, stakeholders, including those
contesting elections, can mobilize people to
come to the rallies. It is not like TAN is doing
the entire mobilization. It is like a market place.
TAN only set up a platform to accommodate
various interests. Therefore, whoever made the
accusation (you are talking about) should be
clear on it; he should state clearly who is
responsible, when the agreement was reached,
date and if not, such a story should be
dismissed.”
Mr. Lawan said he and others affected have
decided to reach out to the media, the PDP
leadership and the police.
“Till now those in charge of the mobilisation and
payment of transport fares and feeding stipends
are nowhere to be found or contacted,” he said.
“It’s indeed a pity to see how things are being
organised by TAN Northwest (Kano). Please
PDP, GDG and TAN members, come to my aid, I
am currently under pressure and threatened by
angry PDP youths to pay them their stipends.”
TAN has been at the centre of controversy
before. During its earlier rallies, the group
staged the events at the peak of the Ebola
outbreak in Nigeria defying complaints and
warnings from Nigerians about the possibility of
helping to spread the deadly virus.

what of the poll created by the GEJ support group?









check it 4 urself. @ www.buildupnigeria.com and see who is leading there

GMB till 2022



















say no to tribalism
no to currupt gvt
say no to pdp

ramdris:
In that case, no need wasting money conducting an election. Let's just declare Buhari president.

You are right even in their own poll we have won what a shame to tha PDP thugs

On October 15, the day former Head of
State, Muhammadu Buhari, declared his
intention to run for president in the 2015
election, news website, Sahara Reporters,
activated an opinion poll asking Nigerians to
indicate who they would vote for if the election
were to hold that day between Mr. Buhari (as
candidate of the All Progressives Congress,
APC) and President Goodluck Jonathan ( as
candidate of the Peoples Democratic, PDP).
The poll lasted for only 24 hours, and out of a
total of 15,435 persons that voted, Mr. Buhari
got 12,246 votes, representing 79 percent of the
total votes cast, while President Jonathan got
3189 votes, representing 21 percent of the total
votes.
However, ostensibly to counter the poll
conducted by Sahara Reporters, Mr. Jonathan’s
Special Assistant on Social Media, Reno Omokri,
also set up a similar poll asking almost the
same question posed by the news website.
His poll, which is still running in his blog, “Build
Up Nigeria” posed the question “If the Nigerian
Presidential election were held today, who
would you vote for between President Goodluck
Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari?”.
Mr. Omokri’s poll began a day after Mr. Buhari
declared to run, but unlike the one ran by
Sahara Reporters, which has since closed, the
one by Build Up Nigeria is still running.
However, the result of the poll, as at 18:32 p.m.
on Saturday, showed that Mr. Buhari was also
leading by a wide margin.
While Mr. Buhari has 6,411 votes, representing
69.87 percent of the total tally, President
Goodluck Jonathan has 2,455 votes,
representing 26.75 percent of the votes cast.
Three hundred and ten persons, representing
3.38 percent of the total votes, were undecided.
While Sahara Reporters used epoll platform, Mr.
Omokri used poll daddy.




SOURCE: www.saharareporters.com/2014/10/18/2015-election-buhari-leads-jonathan-poll-organized-presidential-aide

waternogetenemy:
Nigeria will not trade in the real mccoy(GEJ) for a Genetically Modified Bagga!(GMB)


Simple things, GEJ till 2019

GEJ my feet he is a drunkard he doesn't deserve to rule naija




GMB ALL THE WAY TILL 2022

GMB till 2022

okk....kontunu!

The cancelation of the bye-election is in fovour of pdpd because they know they will surely lose. We are tired of boko haram regime in Adamawa but they changed everything they are still ruling us Bala Ngilari is still in PDP so there is no change uptil now

iamdominus: 5 years, isn't it? na wen u go come learn how to sow a seed

I no go study am i changed to urban and regional planning I think it's better than crop protection

honestly i am in one of d courses trap can u imagine i will spend 5 years studying Crop Protection