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MalcoImX: Where was the Christian in you when you were here defending Ihejirika without confirming from even the Devil?

I prayed and I wasn't told Ihejirika sponsors BH

Did you pray for verification after accusing him

chamboy: shut d f up God is the Father of all not Father of only Christians...

Your foolishness is grade one

If we serve the same God, why do they kill Christians.

Think well

We can't be serving the same God and yet God will tell one party to kill another.

dekronik: This is the full article from the site. It seems this guy is an insider or a plain BH apologists. FG should take this warning seriously :





14TH September 2014 Nigeria SITREP(First Battle Of Konduga)
14TH September 2014 Nigeria SITREP(First Battle Of Konduga)

September 14, 2014 Announcements, Arewa/Northern Nigeria, Conflict And Wars, Imperial Hubris- USA, Nigeria, SITREPs, Situational Analysis(SITANs), White House
14TH September 2014 Nigeria SITREP

First Battle Of Konduga

It took me almost 48 hours to obtain very reliable information of how events played out on the ground in Konduga Town, Konduga LGA, Borno State of North East Nigeria, on 12th September, when insurgent fighters in their hundreds launched a two-pronged assault targeting Kawuri Village and Konduga Town about 40km from Maiduguri to the south and east.
Utilizing night cover around 3:45AM scores of fighters drawn from combined Yusufiyya forces (all four groups) struck at Kawuri Village, engaging CJTF forces and an estimated company-sized force of soldiers for twenty minutes.
Fifteen minutes after the Kawuri assault began, a main force of some 450 fighters (confirmed) in trucks and Toyota picukups attacked Konduga from the direction of Bama.
Meanwhile company-sized elements drawn from 143 Infantry Battalion (newly trained by US California National Guard Special Operations personel drawn from 19th Special Forces Group) and 176 Special Forces Battalion (detached Brigade Of Guards), and supporting tube field artillery units drawn from a yet unspecified artillery unit within 1 Division, had developed proper defensive and firing zones into which the insurgents were channeled.
At 09:00AM, 150 insurgent reinforcement fighters arrived on scene accompanied by several truck mounted 60mm and 81mm mortar pieces providing the insurgents with their first artillery cover of the engagement (the insurgents are confirmed to have mostly utilized truck mounted 12.5mm machine guns along with man portable Dashoka and RPG teams to provide heavy weapons support throughout the engagement).
By some minutes past 12PM, insurgent forces broke off the assault retreating with scores of wounded why living some 80 something bodies (confirmed) on the field. A military source on the scene confirmed that over 35 soldiers were killed and dozens more injured in various degrees.
Insurgent forces abandoned damaged vehicles and the Army captured several mortar pieces. Army patrol units followed the retreating insurgents, harassing them and conducting recon-by-fire sweeps until 5km outside Konduga they ran into fresh insurgent troops (estimated at a 100 or so) and a firefight broke out lasting some 18 minutes while the the retreating insurgents retreated, then the obvious rearguard (the new arrivals) and the Army recon units broke off contact, each side returning to its territory.

Analysis
Notable in this was the ‘complete lack of air cover’. Despite frantic radio appeals  by on the ground commanders for air support, ‘not one jet showed up’ over the battlefield.
Firstly for the Nigerian Army this was an important battle and victory especially for its propaganda value. With elements of arguably the two best-trained formations in the entire Nigerian Army deployed to engage the insurgents at Konduga, based on what was definitely credible enough intelligence, it is obvious the Nigerian Government was intent on securing a victory (the commanders for morale, the politicians for political points). But on closer examination, this battle and victory for the Nigerian Army was not strategically worth it, and here:

This was not an attempt to seize Konduga as is being portrayed in the media nor was the intention to march on Maiduguri. This was a probing attack to test the defensive positions around Maiduguri. 600 men (total number of insurgent fighters said to have taken part at the Battle of Konduga) is definitely not enough to invest and seize Konduga not to talk of Maiduguri, and the insurgents are definitely not stupid (stupid people don’t outsmart an army like Nigeria’s and overrun towns and a city in three whole states). In seizing Gulak, Madagali, Bazza, and Michika, places with considerably less military presence than Konduga, they employed nothing less than 1,000 fighters per each operation. For Konduga, they needed at minimum, 1,800 fighters and definitely much more artillery and heavy weapons support than was used at the last battle of Konduga.

The insurgents do not lack artillery (mortars, recoiless rifles, Triple-A guns), but surprisingly they did not deploy much artillery which they would have did (especially the Tripple-A guns), if they intended to capture Konduga.

I expect more of such probes to take place along the approaches to Maiduguri. If the insurgents aim to seize Maiduguri, this might be a prelude to a full-scale assault on Konduga, in which case building on lessons learnt from it, the knowledge gained of the kind of forces they may likely meet in a second battle of Konduga will definitely be put to use by the insurgent battle-planners.
Did this battle change anything? Absolutely did not. Just some kilometers outside Konduga insurgent forces maintain their very visible presence. There was no withdrawal from positions which they occupy.
The Army did not press the advantage it should have gained had its opponents been in flight from the battlefield, rather it did not because it could not, and the recon-by-fire teams it sent out to harass the retreating insurgents were forced back under fire from rebel rearguard forces.

On Bama And Other Towns
Ineffectual aerial raids (note my choice of words, raids, not bombardments) continue on almost daily basis targeting already bombed-out locations apparently still marked as ‘suspected terrorist positions’ e.g the mosques and areas the palaces of traditional rulers in insurgent-occupied towns.
Some civilian casualties are said to have been killed by exploding aerial ordnance in Bama yesterday and today, although this cannot be confirmed.
Do these raids serve any meaningful strategic purpose? I have been asked this question by many followers of this blog via email. The answer depends on if these raids were designed to degrade insurgent capabilities or just to annoy the insurgents and  piss them the flaming hell off.
If the aim was the first, the aircraft are too few and too vulnerable to enemy Triple-A guns to do any serious damage. Add the fact that very few insurgents are in the towns as most are dispersed in the surrounding hills and bushes.
However if the aim was to annoy the insurgents like a stingless male anopheles mosquito buzzing in the air, then the aim can certainly be described as over achieved as not only the insurgents but also the locals left in the areas have been pissed off by the air raids that seem to do nothing but destroy the mosques.

Shot Down Jet?
on Saturday 13th September I was made aware that the previous day, a single Alpha Jet was scampered to provide air support to troops battling insurgents at Konduga, my initial source who is a ranking AirForce officer said the plane is suspected to have been shot over Bama-Gwoza axis or Northern Adamawa State. An Insurgent source whom I sent a feeler to claims that a Triple-A gun in Limankara belonging to Harakatul-Muhajiriin claimed to have  engaged a Nigerian AirForce plane between 11:00AM and 11:09AM scoring hits . Today the second day after the Alpha Jet left base and did not return, the Director of Defence Information, Major-Gen Chris Olukolade announced via email to journalists that an Alpha Jet with two pilots is ‘missing’ somewhere over Adamawa, leaving base by 10:45AM on a mission and expected back by 12pm, putting it in the air at the time my source claimed a plane was engaged by anti-aircraft fire.



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Hmmmm

What do you think is the way out.

I mean what tactics do you think the military can deploy in overcoming these guys without resulting to increasing the boots on ground and over reliance on airpower.

As for the crashed jet, thorough investigation should be done

It could be a ploy by BH media to shield any agent planted in the air force.

barcanista: CAN is the religious wing of PDP. Bunch of political businessmen and pastorpreneurs. They are inconsequential in the Christian circle. I am a Christian and I don't gv 2 fvcks about those men.

Does Jesus know you

Show us proof that Christ knows you


Church goer claiming Christian

If you are a Christian you won't believe this story without first confirming from God.

gallantsoldier: Nigeria army is filled with useless an selfish officers what about the Goc who gave the soldiers wrong information which led to there ambush the soldier we'r coming back from a successful operation against bokoharam he called them and ask of there wer about ther told him and he told them to go back and passed the other road the soldiers said tat there came to chibok tru the road but he disagree and said it was an order the soldiers turn back and that was the end boko haram ambush them. 322 artillery battalion and fourth brigade garrison of benin in edo state wer ambush in kogi yesterday

This is what Ihejirika curtail

In his era, he contained BH at Sambisa

Your link is not working
Pls re paste it again


The truth is that they would strike towards Maiduguri again but the military can defeat them with better tactics, long range ammunitions and offensive maneuvers.

kraftykc: Nothing of this sort will happen. And I think you are letting myopic tribal assessments lead your thinking, the north does not have the monopoly on aggression, nor the south on cowardice, which is what people are perpetually saying.

If you know Nigerian history beyond what your textbook wrote, you won't make this comment

The judgement for their insurrection and rebellion is in order especially if you want to prevent a total collapse of the military structure

But not investigating neglect and sabotage by superior officers will see massive desertion and cowardice especially when this news filter to the rest.

The truth is that, if these guys are executed and no higher officer was made to suffer for their neglect, Nigerian military will experience an unprecedented desertion and cowardice in few months to come.


SiriusBlack and Nigerians:

Remember I said on Sirius thread that Minimah stoppage of Sirius postings to boast morale will see massive desertion before the year ends. This projection has come to past.


Now I am making another projection

If these guys are executed and no superior officer is punished and the soldiers are continually denied their need, three things will occur in few months to come

1) Massive desertions by Southern/MB soldiers
2) Unprecedented Cowardice by Southern/MB soldiers
3) Attempted coup by Far North soldiers (some who now believe that GEJ Ihejirika and Southern elites are BH supporters)as they see their homeland fall to BH.

The third projection is what will finally breakup Nigeria.

If Nigeria is to remain one nation, free those guys since we know that all senior officers have being exonerated and if those guys are to be executed, sack some senior officers and make it known to every Nigerian.

Failure to do this,

Will see one of the major untold reason why Nzeogwu plotted a coup in 1966 after the Sarduna court marshalling of some officers who refused killing Tivs during the 1964 Tiv riots.

oneeast: FG should look into the Uranium mining going on secretly in Bornu..

Yes especially now that we all know that some of them are ready to secede as spoken by lamido of Adamawa

o42austino: d plane was spoted flying over a village and from d village account d plane was not smoking and fire was not seen on d plane which means that the plane was not shot at or had any mechanical faults, i guess d plane had an electrical fault which result in d plane going off Radar and it made d plane to also communication with control Room and this can make an plan to Lose it way back to base and best d pikot shld do it to crashland d plane not eject from it.

The pilots are confirmed dead


Point of correction

Radars can't detect planes flying at low altitude

atlwireles: Mining is big business in northern Nigeria. Employs tens of thousands, Boko haram might connections there, I don't have any facts to back it up. Ores like lead ore, zinc ore, columbite ore, tantalite ore etc, have mined and sold from northern Nigeria for years. Creating a source of income for many. The only people loosing out are southerners and government revenue agencies.

No wonder they opposed 18% derivation for solid minerals and insisted on 5% so as to make it look less attractive which will cause FG not to look towards that direction

They do not want to share their resources

How do they think God will bless them.

No wonder poverty is their bed mate

kettykin: they will rather execute an innocent man than go after the set of people who vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable, is it a crime to be a Nigerian, Soludo almost went to prison for bank notes contract that he was not involved in , Stella Oduah was persecuted for buying bullet proof official cars for which other Top government staff and public officers have more than 2 , Festus Odimegwu was almost lynched for saying the obvious that there has never been any credible election in Nigeria.

if you dont like some tribes men why not tow the path of Scotland , must you foolishly die as a Nigerian

SSS will drill him to the point that he will confess where he kept our aviation money.

ISpiksDaTroof: You should concentrate on improving your grammar instead of focusing on another man's pockets.

You can do well to correct me

Omo teacher

oneeast: I'm talking of commercial mining that will place Bornu on the world map. The same reason Boko Haram wants a hold on the state.

I like your optimistic believe but Borno has being lost forever.

looking at Nigeria's political operations, no Southern led FG will strive to kick out BH and all Northern led FG might not address the issue because of their attitude of not wanting to share their resources

oneeast: U are very precise and concise on ur analysis..

oneeast: I see Bornu as the future cashcow- uranium deposits

atlwireles: When will that happen? By the way people are already mining and selling Borno Uranium ore, just as they mined and sold Zamfara lead ore. Till, lead poisoning exposed them.

Thanks for this revelation


Both of you

do you think my theory that illegal mining is one of BH's sources of funds apart from political and foreign funds is correct

Though its ND right but has he done with the previous ones

Very soon Nigeria will follow suite

Economically we will experience changes but politically he might fail.

Anyway I will give him my vote to see if he will get us moving

oneeast: U are right on the corruption menace but apart from that those states with large landmass are either plagued by flood or drought as seen in the north which effetctively renders greater percent of the land useless..

That is not true

Flooding and drought are not the problem but lack of numerous personal effort in achieving community development due to their orientation that development is the sole responsibility of government

oneeast: States with the very large land space appears to be least on the table of development.

- Health

- Education

- Urban/Rural development

- Job

- Industrialization

- Human development Index (HDI)

Development is more of a product of people's effort

Most indigenes of less developed states are to be held responsible for their states undevelopment

Eg

The resources the indigenes of Borno should have invested into transforming Born into the food and agro-allied base of Africa were spent on preaching the supremacy of Islam which today has given birth to Boko Haram


We must know that development does not fall from heaven but are creation of people's effort

martyns303: My problem is when daft people like you start making daft assumptions and spreading false ideas. if someone like me don't stand up and correct your perceived wrong idea, others may soon buy into it and spread public fear. which in this case what you have said is that BH has infiltrated into the military airforce, by either paying a flight engineer or paying the pilot to crash the one instrument used in defeating BH. can you imagine the public fear your trying to create with your naïve idea.

come here and post one more of your false ideas or quote me and say bull, and I promise you, I won't stop digging until I find you.

Why not send me your phone number let me properly direct you to my place of residence

martyns303: I was going to let u go away with your foolishness but since you won't just keep shut about what you don't know. Do you even bother to read what you type? you sound absolutely clueless and du.mb.

4) If a plane is shoot, [b]sometimes you see smoke rushing [/b]out especially if its oil fuel or wires are hitted.

5) If you have ever lived in the North you will realise that a very low flying jet that is about to crash the pilots might be seen by those on a high mountain

the report clearly states the locals saying they usually see planes, but none flying as low as this one. if I had lived in the north? are you saying there are frequent low flying jets that are about to crash?

you made mention of people of a particular region? what region is that? talking about engineering. Is this one of your logics again?

I thought you said you are busy

You are jobless

If you don't like my view present yours or keep quiet

Haba

You see me for dream


I hope when the investigation is done and it is reported that something fishy took place I hope you will apologize

In discussions like this , if you do not accept ones view, present yours.

martyns303: this guy is a comic. well done my man. I have things to do.

Pls do not crash that toy plane

Next time ask questions for clarification before responding.

You even sound like people from one section of Nigeria who rarely reason logically on Nairaland which is one reason they are rarely heard in the field of engineering technology

martyns303: I respect it when people make reasonable statements. I had to take time off from what am doing and respond to you properly. from the scenario you illustrated, it does not require technical know how or a professional to give a possible outcome of the event. Now, even if someone wants to give a possible cause of this crash, it would make sense if the person at least have an idea of what he saying, which the poster lack. Speaking as a pilot with 2000 hours of flying experience (which is why what the guy said is annoying). let us look at what he said.

1) It was a deliberate mechanical fault and why didn't the pilot parachute out.

Response: Please. let him explain exactly how do a pilot carry out a "DELIBERATE MECHANICAL" failure. because I have been thinking really hard, the only thing I can come up with is if the pilot lowers flaps or undercarriage at a speed way higher than the recommended speed, then maybe the flaps n undercarriage can just snap off. possible, but illogical. maybe our technology guy can explain more. The second part of his statement says why didn't the pilot eject himself. lets see, so I sabotage a plane, then I sit quite comfortably and crash with it. sounds more like suicide attack to me. and how did the poster know the pilot didn't eject? do the poster know something the rest of us don't ?

2) the pilot was poisoned which could have killed him before his he thought of parachuting out of the jet

Response: I don't know what to say, I just had to laugh. well in a commercial flight, the captain and co-pilot usually eat different meal to avoid food poising. A poison that times him, let him get on-board. then incapacitate him just at the right time and prevent him from ejecting. Nice! really nice theory. well done my man.

3) the pilot intentionally crashed the jet especially if he is alive.

Response: isn't this theory supporting at the same time contradicting his first theory. wait! what is the difference between "deliberate mechanical fault" and "intentional crash"? Maybe in 1. the flight engineer messed with something. , now he his alive, thought he was incapacitated? oh! that was before the flight engineer messed with things. Right!

4) if the jet was releasing smoke before it crashed which is one sign that it was shoot

Response: Too much of Hollywood. what kind of smoke? because blue, black or white smoke could mean burning oil, fuel etc. (piston engine).

5) the villagers who saw the jet's door, actually saw the pilot.

Response: you cant see a pilot from the door but from the windshield front view. this one is even more annoying. even if the door is missing. u still cant see the Pilot from the ground.

One of the reasons people fail exams is their failure to ask questions

Response to your folly

1) Yes deliberate mechanical fault can arise by those who serviced the jet especially if one of them is paid to do so.

2) It is no longer hidden that saboteurs exist. Therefore if the pilot is dead , autopsy should be carried out to find out if he was poisoned

3) Could the pilot intentionally crash the jet .? Yes if he is well paid. Do you think a pilot who sees BH as freedom fighters paid $1million to do so he won't do so

4) If a plane is shoot, sometimes you see smoke rushing out especially if its oil fuel or wires are hitted.

5) If you have ever lived in the North you will realise that a very low flying jet that is about to crash the pilots might be seen by those on a high mountain


Finally

If you lack logical reasoning as stated by hardboy, don't think everybody is like you.


As for you claiming being a pilot

Pls shut up because you do not know what I do.

State creation will liberate the minorities from the strangulation of the majority eg Most Northern Christians will be free from Hausa Fulani Kanuri oppression

As for economic viability, let's support fiscal federalism and you will see that no LGA let alone state is poor.

We Biafrans reject any SW political post

Yorubas ask those Igbos to show their faces so that we can point to you their fathers uncompleted buildings in Igbo land


Fellow Biafrans

These are the jobless people trying to pour sand into our garri

Charity begins at home

hardbody: Those were rational and logical thought processes. I also thought about some of those and that is why this is a discussion forum. He may be wrong, indeed completely wrong, but he showed that he was thinking of possibilities. I will give you my personal experience. I was working for Glo sometime when information filtered in that robbers were operating at Oceanic Bank and that was around past noon. While we were discussing it downstairs at the time the operation was ongoing, i recall contributing to say that the only way a sensible criminal can expect to go with any loot from there was to come in with a speed boat, operate, leave, take cover around any of the creeks towards apapa/tin can and then speed away to safety by nightfall. I also said if i was the security chief in Lagos, i will use an helicopter to comb all the creeks and bushes around that arena. Guess what? the next day, the Glo CSO came to my office to tell me that 'oga, those thieves came through the water and left through the water, but policemen were busy mounting road blocks in and around V/I.' Am i a professional? No. It was just rational and logical thinking process. If you have suggestions, make them and appreciate it when others make theirs.

I hope i have stayed away from insult, please if you need to respond, kindly do same.

God bless you

One major reason Africa is underdeveloped is because most of our people rarely reason logically.

Thanks for helping me educate him in the school of logical reasoning.

fyneboi79: Wetin ‎u dey feel likeCIA?

Na me sey make you dey feel like old papa village man


Comot for road make human being pass

texazzpete: While you're at it with your outlandish theories, maybe you should add that they should investigate if the plane was shot down by a flaming fireball from Godzilla

Everyone is not like you who wasted your education

Investigation is needed to truly know if sabotage occurred especially now that we have reported cases of sabotage.

martyns303: @blacktechnology. So your now an aircraft crash investigator? Or you are just saying whatever comes to your head? I just hope this is not some sort of damage control.

What do you mean by damage control

BH supporter, I know you are happy that an opportunity to insult FG is now available.

Go ahead and insult FG

o42austino: stop talking what u dont know,no good military pilot will like to eject from his plane he will try everything within his power to land d plane successfully and remember in Airforce, once ur good with an Aircraft, ur name will be written on the aircraft as a dedication and respect to u so u will not eject from such plane but try to land d plane.

So why didn't land at his base

If you have any military sense in you, my call for thorough investigation will be clear to you since we have reported cases of sabotage