₦airaland Forum

jl115:
- A force like BH will never even be able to establish itself in SA..... The fact that they exist in the first place in Nigeria its self is a glaring failure of Nigeria's security services as a whole

- The SANDF have more than proved themselves in Moz, DRC, CAR, S-Sudan, Burundi ext..... In fact the M23 which were even larger and better equipped than BH were destroyed in a matter of months by the SA led FIB

- I've never said that GFP is a credible source,in fact i even said its trash today...... Yet you fully supported GFP and its ranking criteria back in 2018 when it ranked Nigeria ahead of SA.

- A country that has only 3 3+ gen fighters, no subs, no frigates and can't defeat a ragtag rebel group in its own borders can never be ranked 1st...certainly not above a country like SA.

Just be happy you still rank above Morocco

South Africa does not have a Muslim population like Nigeria nor is it in a region of the Sahel susceptible to jihadi radicalization. Terrorism in relation to Nigeria is a complex power game involving internal and external dynamics to bring a black giant to its knees. Something the Nigerian Armed Forces has appreciably brought to a halt by the force of arms. However if ISWAP were to show up on your borders I repeat you couldn't do same not with your present army.

The countries you mention put together does not measure up to the exploits of the Nigerian military elsewhere. Don't be so deluded you choose not to see reason. The RUF alone was a standing army just like ISWAP today only the latter is even more deadlier for they come to die something none of the combatants where you mention can be compared to. And please don't mention CAR because you'd be dressed down let's just honor the sacrifices of the men who paid the supreme sacrifice their. The other countries you mention are PKO, SA operates with other countries else it would have turned out a disaster just like the CAR. In Mozambique the Rwandans are doing much heavy lifting not the South Africans who only carry out some specialized operations. The terrorists in Mozambique don't have the men nor the resources to compare to ISWAP.

Nigeria's Armed Forces is in very good shape and to all intents and purposes the very best Sub-saharan Africa has today. Modernization continues apace with anticipated deliveries of more game changing and wonder weapons. Soon to be added to the inventory is 24 M346 FAs that alone changes the dynamics of Air Warfare from Cape to Cairo. The logistics of this aircraft brings capacity and capabilities that gives the NAF decision advantages in a dedicated war environment. The Navy is on schedule to receive two Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs), also expecting Light Frigates and at least one purpose built Frigate in the class of the Aradu. Most of these are already paid for. Really are we supposed to be doing this again, it's clear like daylight you are no longer a viable competitor we have since moved on. The evidence is glaring for all to see. Apart from these acquisitions the Navy is active at Sea with it's current assets in full operations something that cannot be said of your Navy. I haven't mentioned the NA in all of this matrix.

Nigeria's procurement is based on Purpose-To-Task with the finest and best trained officers in all of Africa unlike your bloated SANDF with a moribund Navy, depleted Air Force and pot bellied Army of Generals who can't even match in step. While we have inducted 3 Air Superiority & Multi-role BVR capable JF-17 Thunder Fighter Jets and F-7Ni Airguards for point Air Defense Nigeria does not currently have any Air-Air threats, we are only preparing for future wars. No, Morocco is not even on our radar I can tell you, our position is clear and our military planners backed by our political masters are heading to be the number one military power in Africa and on budget.

Let us quit this tete-a-tete. Any geo-strategic thinker can see the trajectory of Nigeria.

THE OFFENSIVE

Not sure if this here which gives credence to my earlier mentions is sarcasm or lilliputian
Yet the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The Nigerian military in actual reality not conjecture by paid hacks and lobbyists at GFP


NAF Super Tucano Eliminates another ISWAP Commander Mallam Ari, Foreign Mercenaries at Kirta Wulgo

The Nigerian military has kept to its commitment in targeting key terrorists as air interdiction strikes undertaken by Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Super Tucano aircraft under Operation Hadin Kai have eliminated several ISWAP Commanders and terrorists at Kirta Wulgo.

PRNigeria gathered that ISWAP Senior Commander, Mallam Ari in charge of Kirta Wulgo and foreign mercenaries fabricating Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) for the terrorists were killed during the airstrikes by the aircraft.

A senior intelligence official said that the airstrikes were authorized after intelligence revealed over 40 terrorists converging at the fringes of Northeast Kirta Wulgo, close to a point where a suspected ISWAP flag was hoisted.

“Some were also seen with weapons around a nearby make-shift structure, which was a likely indication that the structure might have had a high calibre terrorist target.

“After the airstrikes, some of the surviving terrorists were observed making frantic efforts to put out the fire that ensued while others took to their heels.

“Indeed, the make-shift structures were significantly burnt and destroyed at the fringes.”

“Several ISWAP fighters were neutralized in the air strikes including one Mallam Ari who was identified as the Fiya of Kirta Wulgo.”

Fiya is a title held by the second in the hierarchy of the terrorists’ military structure.

When contacted, the NAF spokesperson Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, confirmed that the NAF indeed carried out some strikes in areas around Kirta Wulgo, but remained silent as the number or identities of the casualties.

ISWAP leadership recently made sweeping changes to their structures due to the loss of some of its key members killed mainly through air strikes by NAF aircraft.

By PRNigeria

THE OFFENSIVE

NAF Super Tucano Eliminates another ISWAP Commander Mallam Ari, Foreign Mercenaries at Kirta Wulgo

The Nigerian military has kept to its commitment in targeting key terrorists as air interdiction strikes undertaken by Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Super Tucano aircraft under Operation Hadin Kai have eliminated several ISWAP Commanders and terrorists at Kirta Wulgo.

PRNigeria gathered that ISWAP Senior Commander, Mallam Ari in charge of Kirta Wulgo and foreign mercenaries fabricating Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) for the terrorists were killed during the airstrikes by the aircraft.

A senior intelligence official said that the airstrikes were authorized after intelligence revealed over 40 terrorists converging at the fringes of Northeast Kirta Wulgo, close to a point where a suspected ISWAP flag was hoisted.

“Some were also seen with weapons around a nearby make-shift structure, which was a likely indication that the structure might have had a high calibre terrorist target.

“After the airstrikes, some of the surviving terrorists were observed making frantic efforts to put out the fire that ensued while others took to their heels.

“Indeed, the make-shift structures were significantly burnt and destroyed at the fringes.”

“Several ISWAP fighters were neutralized in the air strikes including one Mallam Ari who was identified as the Fiya of Kirta Wulgo.”

Fiya is a title held by the second in the hierarchy of the terrorists’ military structure.

When contacted, the NAF spokesperson Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, confirmed that the NAF indeed carried out some strikes in areas around Kirta Wulgo, but remained silent as the number or identities of the casualties.

ISWAP leadership recently made sweeping changes to their structures due to the loss of some of its key members killed mainly through air strikes by NAF aircraft.

By PRNigeria

Apparently I make the above Southie character so insecure he can't sleep when I'm on Nairaland. He's so used to the prebendal nature of most monikers which he's not getting from me. And what did I do simply expose his bloated ego and shallow mind by superior intellect and that he can't stand. Else explain his emotion laden emojis behind my every mention. I mean this guy is fully on my employ.

In that mention he subtly quotes is clearly the word "militarily". The question was with reference to help in the fight against ISWAP not economic might. I do chose my words carefully.

And if he can't crucify the message he seeks to crucify the messenger. He knows who I'm not.

E dey pain you You for just mind your business because me I don't know if you exist.

None of the countries you mention can do anything militarily for Nigeria in Africa except the North Africans but they have their hands full. In fact we are doing a far better job.

Isn't it a shame that in the 21st century Africa is still talking of the relevance of a weak colonial power. Nations evolve when they fill the void. France is relevant in Francophone Africa because Nigeria isn't but doesn't mean it can't be and reaping all that benefits France reaps.

One of the prerogatives of the President of Nigeria is foreign policy and its evident with the chaos in French West Africa the president is sleeping at the wheel. Even the body language of a sitting Nigerian president is enough to dissuade would be adventurers. Sadly the signals sent from Abuja does not inspire any confidence I doubt even among our allies. There are so many levers of power Nigeria can bring to bear other than military power which is the last resort. When president Obasanjo was in power he got his way everywhere in Africa without having to deploy combat troops.

The next president of Nigeria has his job cut out for him home and abroad. President Buhari is already a lame duck except he wants to have something for his legacy on foreign policy he must do something with the one year left on his presidency and these coups are opportunities.

Go figure.

jl115:
South Africa has already achieved more in Moz than the Nigerian army in its own country so although I agree the ranking is fvcked the SANDF is still streets ahead of the Nigerian Defence force... So I suggest you calm the fvck down agubugu

And in 2018 you fully agreed with GFP when it ranked Nigeria ahead of SA.... You remember that?

The evidence of your delusion is clear for all to see making comparison between light terrorists in Mozambique with ISWAP in the LCB and the Sahel but of course no surprises to how low you'd sink to score cheap points. Let ISWAP show up in your country and you bet that same Nigeria will be the one's you will be begging to save your republic. I have said it before and I repeat if ISWAP were to exist in any other sub-saharan African country the Caliphate would have been a reality a long time ago.

I take with a pinch of salt you agree the GFP rankings are flawed because I know deep down being irrational you are gallivanting. What's irrefutable is the rankings are flawed because it does not reflect actual reality but the figment and perception of the authors imagination.

The Covert may agree with a narrative doesn't mean endorsement. I don't subscribe to GFP as a credible source for military rankings heck I don't even agree with the open source info of the CIA knowing the black arts of intelligence is to lie in plain sight whilst feeding their masters back home the true reality and state of things.

The rankings should properly be in this order

Sub-Saharan Africa
1. Nigeria
2. South Africa

North Africa
1. Egypt
2. Algeria

This more accurately reflects the geopolitical order of power rankings. GFP is not credible.

jl115:
yeah except SAAF of course

Yes of course except the SAAF but sadly only in your world SAAF with antiquated fighter pilots and grounded Gripens is the very best in the whole world not only in Africa

Valkrie:
As long as the citizens of those countries are happy with the military incursion...there is nothing anybody can do...!!
Trust me if similar thing happen in Nigeria today you would see citizens in their millions come out enmass to the street to jubilate....!! That's the harsh truth starring us all in the face and nobody should even pretend to want to be politically correct about anything....!!! The civilians have failed the masses and that's a fact nobody can wash out....!!!

Most of those citizens especially in Africa don't know what is good for them. Put it like this if their is a counter-coup the same citizens will still run to the streets in jubilation. You see in the evolution of contemporary Africa illiteracy of some sorts is still a problem. Africa has made strides in education but mostly still suffers from mind emancipation and poverty to determine the course of its destiny.

It was Abraham Lincoln who said "God must love the poor people so much because he made so many of them". The point here is when you keep a people poor you can control them. You see something is fundamentally wrong when a people think a one man rule is better than representative government that gives them a franchise to rule. All the dictator needs to do is to keep them poor and create a smokescreen.

The fact still remains from all indices as bad as democratic politicians may be they are a million miles better than an autocracy or theocracy which answers to no one. In advanced climes citizens value the vote because with it they change governments to suit exigent circumstances. It took most of them 200 to 500 years to get there and before that they slaughtered themselves. Africa should give democracy time. The signs are there we are maturing and some African countries like Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Botswana and more is an example.

In Nigeria our experience with military dictatorships was a sour one and the only people it benefits are the enemies of Nigeria. President Buhari may be hated but so was all the other presidents before him because after elections the goodwill wanes, people expect miracles and when it is not forthcoming they tend to regret their choices but yet the fact remains Nigeria has made greater and better strides under all the civilian administrations including for the military themselves from Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa to Presidents Shehu Shagari, Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar'Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari than all the previous military dictatorships combined.

jl115:
The might that is the SANDF with a ever shrinking budget and 0 acquisitions over the past year have managed to skyrocket from 32nd on the GFP index to 26th leap frogging Algeria to become the second most powerful defence force after Egypt in Africa

https://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.php?country_id=south-africa

Rankings for Africa:
1. Egypt - 12th
2. SA - 26th
3. Algeria 31st
4. Nigeria 35th
5. Morocco 55th

The authors of GFP can't put a face to their name to be held up to scrutiny and work for lobbyists and arms merchants with motives

Even the writers themselves will be laughing at that nonsense they put up there The world has since moved on and no one pays attention except those who enjoy seasons of delusion.

South Africa that can't deploy a decent combat helicopter in Mozambique is rated second in Africa ahead of Algeria and Nigeria in this day and age. Didn't you think to yourself they must be smoking some special brand of weed

Gireiboy:
Not so viable competitor down south

None

BlackBaron:
Ok, let's cart away the already overstretched soldiers in the North to Burkina Faso and Mali. CJTF with shotguns, Toyota trucks and motorcycles will hold the line until they get back.

Are you happy?

The Theater Command Op Hadin Kai and the 7th Division troops AOR has north of 20,000 soldiers. That's a drop in the bucket of the AFN manpower. The North East is no longer the challenge it used to be in fact I can predict in a years time many of those forces will be withdrawn back to the barracks as the military now has the precision assets to mitigate any yawning gaps.

When we use the word overstretched with regards to the military it simply means combatant troops operations in 33 states of the 36 states of the federation doesn't imply lack of troops or means. The NSA and CDS continues to generate fresh pool of troops yearly to meet contemporary challenges so that current deployments hasn't stopped Nigeria deploying troops outside the country.

Nigeria still has modest troop presence abroad and can be quickly scaled up in the case of an emergency. That said Nigeria now has a modern military with the firepower to plug the gaps of numbers as seen in The Gambia with support troops from other ECOWAS countries, it becomes highly unlikely to deploy high concentration of troops like we saw in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The North-East is an example. There's no sub-regional army that can bring the heat as bad as ISWAP has done in the last few years and if we can contain these terrorists effectively by the force of arms we can capture any West African capital and State House in less than a fortnight.

NAF WINGING NEW PILOTS

This is the current trend and new normal in the NAF since 2015. This exceeds anything elsewhere in sub-saharan Africa. Nothing like capacity building which is just as important as building capabilities. And better to build from inside-out as Nigeria does in all three Armed Services than outside-in as we've seen with a certain no longer viable competitor down South. As I've said year's back the man is more important than the machine. The machine in the wrong hands as we see in some Arab armies or as in Afghanistan is a waste of time.

Just look at this nonsense, an aberration

The first mistake was letting Asimi Goita get away with it in Mali, then failed to impose a no fly zone in Guinea and intervene militarily in both countries however bad it looked optically especially doing so for the former third term president in Guinea. Now Burkina Faso, I mean these guys are basically plotting among themselves to circumvent ECOWAS sanctions, you don't need a seer to read between the lines. It's all carefully orchestrated under the usual guise of failed politicians something we know too well as the slogan of soldiers for taking power. It is merely cowardice, soldiers can't fight rampaging terrorists then leave their jobs at the front for cozy offices in the capital siphoning the commonwealth to distant lands.

Nigeria's president Buhari and its ruling party the APC as with all their ineptitude again failed to lead. This would never have happened under a proactive president like Obasanjo. As it is ECOWAS should quickly negotiate a return of the constitutional order and reinstatement of the president in Qaugadougou or else slam even harsher sanctions on all three countries and shut them out of civilization till common sense prevails among its citizenry to reject unconstitutional change of government. As a follow up activate its standby force for intervention starting with Mali the agent provocateur of all this nonsense. In this day and age a one man rule is inexcusable and why is it only Africans suffer from this archaism.

The first mistake was letting Asimi Goita get away with it in Mali, then failed to impose a no fly zone in Guinea and intervene militarily in both countries however bad it looked optically especially doing so for the former third term president in Guinea. Now Burkina Faso, I mean these guys are basically plotting among themselves to circumvent ECOWAS sanctions, you don't need a seer to read between the lines. It's all carefully orchestrated under the usual guise of failed politicians something we know too well as the slogan of soldiers for taking power. It is merely cowardice, soldiers can't fight rampaging terrorists then leave their jobs at the front for cozy offices in the capital siphoning the commonwealth to distant lands.

Nigeria's president Buhari and its ruling party the APC as with all their ineptitude again failed to lead. This would never have happened under a proactive president like Obasanjo. As it is ECOWAS should quickly negotiate a return of the constitutional order and reinstatement of the president in Qaugadougou or else slam even harsher sanctions on all three countries and shut them out of civilization till common sense prevails among its citizenry to reject unconstitutional change of government. As a follow up activate its standby force for intervention starting with Mali the agent provocateur of all this nonsense. In this day and age a one man rule is inexcusable and why is it only Africans suffer from this archaism.

NAF ATTACK OPERATIONS AGAINST ISWAP TERRORISTS IN THE TUMBUMS LAKE CHAD

DIRECT ACCESS TO NIGERIAN ELITE WARPLANES | THE NAF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA'S MOST ADVANCED AND LETHAL AIR FORCE

Only a delusional security analyst will go to town on a foreign media and twitter to whine ISWAP has permanent training bases. If amateur child soldiers is what they have left to throw at us clearly shows they have been badly wounded and bleeding and bleeding very badly and no stop to the bleeding. Someone remember the end of World War 11 and the end of the Nazi Reich with the Hitler youth, apparently history has a way of repeating itself. Any terrorists that do not surrender will be reduced to minced meat and their media collaborators will be fished out. The terrorists cause is a futile and lost war. It is only going to end one way: victory for the Armed Forces of Nigeria. The Nigerian military is not going anywhere. This is our land. We are here to stay.


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

DIRECT ACCESS TO NIGERIAN ELITE WARPLANES | THE NAF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA'S MOST ADVANCED AND LETHAL AIR FORCE

Only a delusional security analyst will go to town on a foreign media and twitter to whine ISWAP has permanent training bases. If amateur child soldiers is what they have left to throw at us clearly shows they have been badly wounded and bleeding and bleeding very badly and no stop to the bleeding. Someone remember the end of World War 11 and the end of the Nazi Reich with the Hitler youth, apparently history has a way of repeating itself. Any terrorists that do not surrender will be reduced to minced meat and their media collaborators will be fished out. The terrorists cause is a futile and lost war. It is only going to end one way: victory for the Armed Forces of Nigeria. The Nigerian military is not going anywhere. This is our land. We are here to stay.


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

NA Combat Troops Kill 49 Terrorists, another lump sum surrender of over 800 terrorists. These islamafascists terrorists are taking a serious beating on an unprecedented scale and the Nigerian military hasn't even gone on offensive. ISWAP is in trouble and no escape.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/506927-troops-eliminate-49-terrorists-as-863-others-surrender-dhq.html

NA Combat Troops Kill 49 Terrorists, another lump sum surrender of over 800 terrorists. These islamafascists terrorists are taking a serious beating on an unprecedented scale and the Nigerian military hasn't even gone on offensive. ISWAP is in trouble and no escape.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/506927-troops-eliminate-49-terrorists-as-863-others-surrender-dhq.html

Gentlemen, Strength & Valour. The Armed Forces of Nigeria under the brilliant and able leadership of the CDS General Leo Irabor.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilgNE01DE2A

Gentlemen, Strength & Valour. The Armed Forces of Nigeria under the brilliant and able leadership of the CDS General Leo Irabor.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilgNE01DE2A

ISWAP terrorists should stop now listening to their sponsors including their cheer leaders on twitter who are leading them to their needless deaths because this what will happen if the remaining ones held hostage for a lost cause don't surrender. Propaganda will not win them this war and they know it. No one cares about that anymore knowing they are at the receiving end of some of the most advanced lethal weapons ever invented by man. There is no outcome expected by any sane military expert other than the nigh annihilation of ISWAP in the coming offensive that will only reduce them to common criminals left for the NPF to deal with and that's not a very good prospect.

Soon to be thrown into the fray are Special Warfare Operators from DHQ. Bidding time.

NAF FIGHTER JET MANEUVER OVER BANJUL

https://twitter.com/Daniel_Finnan/status/824684924816986112?t=I0NC5F8I4VKQMbX0WW5MpA&s=19

SitRep: The Covert is back to base.
The Happy New Year mother of all offensives the likes of which Africa has never seen when it happens and it will happen barring any last minute new arrivals of additional wonder weapons in theater will make ISWAP islamafascists terrorists rue the day they chose to become mass murderers. ISWAP should surrender now or bleed until comprehensively destroyed and reduced to rubble.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruq3sXOHd_g

SitRep: The Covert is back to base.
The Happy New Year mother of all offensives the likes of which Africa has never seen when it happens and it will happen barring any last minute new arrivals of additional wonder weapons in theater will make ISWAP islamafascists terrorists rue the day they chose to become mass murderers. ISWAP should surrender now or bleed until comprehensively destroyed and reduced to rubble.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruq3sXOHd_g

ECOWAS imposes travel bans and other sanctions on Guinea coup junta and their families. Noteworthy but not nearly enough. This is just short of a no-fly-zone and a naval blockade, at least for now. Coups are cancers.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/ecowas-resorts-to-sanctions-over-guinea-mali-coups/

SuperSixSeven:
The rot became so deep we seriously discuss if we should arrest terrorist sponsors.

Sadly as with a lot of things in Nigeria. But there are underlying factors too to these things Nigeria being a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society making it a sensitive issue. However I think most agree even the president himself at least before he became president that BHT/ISWAP can no longer be dealt with an even hand but face the full wrath of the armed forces and the laws of the land especially if agitators elsewhere are seen to be treated with the full weight and force of the law. Now we all know some of those forces behind this carnage have found their way into his government in Abuja just like it was under Jonathan though I think then was mostly for corrupt and political reasons than pure ideological persuasions.

Another view to these issues is in the arts of intelligence, secret agencies devise false flags operations, compromise local and foreign assets caught up in counter-intelligence to nail the real masterminds which can be so hard to uncover because it might surprise you that these individuals may not be acting alone but actually sponsored by nation states, disgruntled politicians, domestic enemies, wealthy private and business interests any or all of the above working to see the demise of Nigeria or undermine the present administration or indeed any other ulterior motive to suit their agenda. Whichever getting to the bottom of these things is like a "camel passing through the eye of a needle" and it could take years as we've seen in other climes and protracted conflicts.

But in the end it is the signal the government in power is sending that matters in all of it and arresting and shaming some sponsors sooner than later might not be such a bad thing.

List of local & int'l sponsors of BHT/ISWAP


UAE puts six Nigerians with ties to Boko Haram on terrorist list
By Dennis Erezi
14 September 2021 | 11:06 am

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Monday named six Nigerians with ties to insurgent group Boko Haram as terrorist financiers.

The UAE Cabinet on Monday issued Resolution No 83 of 2021, designating a total of 38 individuals and 15 entities on its approved list of persons and organisations supporting Boko Haram and other terrorist cause.

Nigerians on the UAE’s terrorism list were Abdurrahaman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad.

The six persons have been previously tried and sentenced in UAE.

Other foreign nationals in the list are Ahmed Mohammed Abdulla Mohammed Alshaiba Alnuaimi (UAE), Mohamed Saqer Yousif Saqer Al Zaabi (UAE), Hamad Mohammed Rahmah Humaid Alshamsi (UAE), Saeed Naser Saeed Naser Alteneiji (UAE), Hassan Hussain Tabaja (Lebanon), Adham Hussain Tabaja (Lebanon), Mohammed Ahmed Musaed Saeed (Yemen), Hayder Habeeb Ali (Iraq), Basim Yousuf Hussein Alshaghanbi (Iraq), Sharif Ahmed Sharif Ba Alawi (Yemen).

Others are Manoj Sabharwal Om Prakash (India), Rashed Saleh Saleh Al Jarmouzi (Yemen), Naif Nasser Saleh Aljarmouzi (Yemen), Zubiullah Abdul Qahir Durani (Afghanistan), Suliman Saleh Salem Aboulan (Yemen), Adel Ahmed Salem Obaid Ali Badrah (Yemen), Ali Nasser Alaseeri (Saudi Arabia), Fadhl Saleh Salem Altayabi (Yemen), Ashur Omar Ashur Obaidoon (Yemen), Hazem Mohsen Farhan + Hazem Mohsen Al Farhan (Syria), Mehdi Azizollah Kiasati (Iran), Farshad Jafar Hakemzadeh (Iran), Seyyed Reza Mohmmad Ghasemi (Iran), Mohsen Hassan Kargarhodjat Abadi (Iran), Ibrahim Mahmood Ahmed Mohammed (Iran), Osama Housen Dughaem (Syria), Alaa Khanfurah – Alaa Abdulrazzaq Ali Khanfurah – Alaa Alkhanfurah (Syria), Fadi Said Kamar (Great Britain), Walid Kamel Awad (Saint Kitts and Nevis), Khaled Walid Awad (Saint Kitts and Nevis), Imad Khallak Kantakdzhi (Russia) and Mouhammad Ayman Tayseer Rashid Marayat (Jordan).

UAE news agency reported that the resolution underscored the country’s commitment to target and dismantle networks that finance terrorism and its related activities.

The resolution demands that regulatory authorities monitor and identify any individuals or entities affiliated with or associated with any financial, commercial or technical relationship and take the necessary measures according to the laws in force in the country in less than 24 hours.

Six Nigerians jailed for Boko Haram funding
In April 2019, the Abu Dhabi federal court of appeal sentenced both Surajo Abubakar Muhammad and Saliuh Yusuf Adamu to life imprisonment followed by deportation.

Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, AbdurRahman Ado Musa, Bashir Ali Yusuf and Muhammad Ibrahim Isa, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison, and also followed by deportation.

The court found them guilty of setting up a Boko Haram cell in the UAE to raise funds and material assistance for the insurgents in Nigeria.

In December 2019, a UAE federal supreme court also turned down an appeal by the six Nigerians, upholding the ruling of the appeal court.

The Nigerians were said to have transferred up to $800,000 in favour of Boko Haram between 2015 and 2016.

Is Nigeria willing to name Boko Haram sponsors?
Boko Haram insurgency has killed over around 40,000 people with two million displaced, according to an AFP report.

A former assistant director of the Department of State Services, Nigeria’s secret police, Dennis Amachree, asserted that the U.S. had been positively disposed to supporting Nigeria, especially in the fight against terrorism, noting that the question was whether the Federal Government would embrace the current gesture.

“Are we ready to arrest and prosecute these sponsors when exposed? Are we simply going to lock them away as has been done in the past? These are the concerns and the Americans may lose interest if we don’t take it seriously,” Amachree said in a report.

Amachree’s assertion aligned with the claim of former Nigerian Navy Commodore Kunle Olawunmi who said the government knows the sponsors of Boko Haram.

Olawunmi said he had interrogated and found a high-ranking member of Buhari’s government culpable of involvement with Boko Haram in 2007/2008.

The former Navy commodore stated that the Nigerian government was not ready to fight insurgency because it had failed to prosecute the arrested 400 persons suspected to be sponsors of Boko Haram.

https://m.guardian.ng/news/uae-puts-six-nigerians-with-ties-to-boko-haram-on-terrorist-list/

List of local & int'l sponsors of BHT/ISWAP


UAE puts six Nigerians with ties to Boko Haram on terrorist list
By Dennis Erezi
14 September 2021 | 11:06 am

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Monday named six Nigerians with ties to insurgent group Boko Haram as terrorist financiers.

The UAE Cabinet on Monday issued Resolution No 83 of 2021, designating a total of 38 individuals and 15 entities on its approved list of persons and organisations supporting Boko Haram and other terrorist cause.

Nigerians on the UAE’s terrorism list were Abdurrahaman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad.

The six persons have been previously tried and sentenced in UAE.

Other foreign nationals in the list are Ahmed Mohammed Abdulla Mohammed Alshaiba Alnuaimi (UAE), Mohamed Saqer Yousif Saqer Al Zaabi (UAE), Hamad Mohammed Rahmah Humaid Alshamsi (UAE), Saeed Naser Saeed Naser Alteneiji (UAE), Hassan Hussain Tabaja (Lebanon), Adham Hussain Tabaja (Lebanon), Mohammed Ahmed Musaed Saeed (Yemen), Hayder Habeeb Ali (Iraq), Basim Yousuf Hussein Alshaghanbi (Iraq), Sharif Ahmed Sharif Ba Alawi (Yemen).

Others are Manoj Sabharwal Om Prakash (India), Rashed Saleh Saleh Al Jarmouzi (Yemen), Naif Nasser Saleh Aljarmouzi (Yemen), Zubiullah Abdul Qahir Durani (Afghanistan), Suliman Saleh Salem Aboulan (Yemen), Adel Ahmed Salem Obaid Ali Badrah (Yemen), Ali Nasser Alaseeri (Saudi Arabia), Fadhl Saleh Salem Altayabi (Yemen), Ashur Omar Ashur Obaidoon (Yemen), Hazem Mohsen Farhan + Hazem Mohsen Al Farhan (Syria), Mehdi Azizollah Kiasati (Iran), Farshad Jafar Hakemzadeh (Iran), Seyyed Reza Mohmmad Ghasemi (Iran), Mohsen Hassan Kargarhodjat Abadi (Iran), Ibrahim Mahmood Ahmed Mohammed (Iran), Osama Housen Dughaem (Syria), Alaa Khanfurah – Alaa Abdulrazzaq Ali Khanfurah – Alaa Alkhanfurah (Syria), Fadi Said Kamar (Great Britain), Walid Kamel Awad (Saint Kitts and Nevis), Khaled Walid Awad (Saint Kitts and Nevis), Imad Khallak Kantakdzhi (Russia) and Mouhammad Ayman Tayseer Rashid Marayat (Jordan).

UAE news agency reported that the resolution underscored the country’s commitment to target and dismantle networks that finance terrorism and its related activities.

The resolution demands that regulatory authorities monitor and identify any individuals or entities affiliated with or associated with any financial, commercial or technical relationship and take the necessary measures according to the laws in force in the country in less than 24 hours.

Six Nigerians jailed for Boko Haram funding
In April 2019, the Abu Dhabi federal court of appeal sentenced both Surajo Abubakar Muhammad and Saliuh Yusuf Adamu to life imprisonment followed by deportation.

Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, AbdurRahman Ado Musa, Bashir Ali Yusuf and Muhammad Ibrahim Isa, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison, and also followed by deportation.

The court found them guilty of setting up a Boko Haram cell in the UAE to raise funds and material assistance for the insurgents in Nigeria.

In December 2019, a UAE federal supreme court also turned down an appeal by the six Nigerians, upholding the ruling of the appeal court.

The Nigerians were said to have transferred up to $800,000 in favour of Boko Haram between 2015 and 2016.

Is Nigeria willing to name Boko Haram sponsors?
Boko Haram insurgency has killed over around 40,000 people with two million displaced, according to an AFP report.

A former assistant director of the Department of State Services, Nigeria’s secret police, Dennis Amachree, asserted that the U.S. had been positively disposed to supporting Nigeria, especially in the fight against terrorism, noting that the question was whether the Federal Government would embrace the current gesture.

“Are we ready to arrest and prosecute these sponsors when exposed? Are we simply going to lock them away as has been done in the past? These are the concerns and the Americans may lose interest if we don’t take it seriously,” Amachree said in a report.

Amachree’s assertion aligned with the claim of former Nigerian Navy Commodore Kunle Olawunmi who said the government knows the sponsors of Boko Haram.

Olawunmi said he had interrogated and found a high-ranking member of Buhari’s government culpable of involvement with Boko Haram in 2007/2008.

The former Navy commodore stated that the Nigerian government was not ready to fight insurgency because it had failed to prosecute the arrested 400 persons suspected to be sponsors of Boko Haram.

https://m.guardian.ng/news/uae-puts-six-nigerians-with-ties-to-boko-haram-on-terrorist-list/

Exposing ignorance, insecure minds, foo.lery, illiteracy and primitiveness on Nairaland. Someone has nothing to offer but stupidity and I'm supposed to engage such base minds, no I don't thinks so. A case of blind leading the blind. Such I.diots bereft of borderline sense.

Here a material for thinkers on the matter

CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Guinea: The Causes and Consequences of West Africa’s Latest Coup

September 8, 2021

The Guinean military’s overthrow of President Alpha Condé—an outcome of autocratic overreach, economic mismanagement, and eroding democratic norms—points to the failure of regional bodies and international partners to anticipate and respond to an evolving coup playbook. On September 5, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya ousted the country’s civilian leader Alpha Condé, proclaiming that “the duty of a soldier is to save the country.” The military putsch is the country’s third coup d’état since independence in 1958 and the latest in a string of unconstitutional power grabs in the region, including in neighboring Mali and Chad, during the past two years.

Q1: Who is Guinea’s new military leader and what are his objectives?

A1: Colonel Doumbouya is a 41-year-old former French legionnaire and commander of the country’s elite Special Forces Group. He has received training from France, Israel, Senegal, and Gabon, as well as participated in at least one U.S. special forces exercise. According to his official bio, he also served in missions in Afghanistan, Cote d’Ivoire, the Central African Republic, and Djibouti. Since the coup, he has twice quoted former Ghanaian coup leader Jerry Rawlings, who infamously publicly executed several of his military predecessors. In a 2017 speech, Doumbouya expressed resentment about U.S and French influence in Guinea. According to the BBC, Doumbouya was one of 25 Guineans that EU members of parliament threatened to sanction for alleged human rights abuses during Condé’s presidency—although neither his name nor that of the unit he commanded have appeared in international human rights reports about the repression of protests and other abuses in recent years.

As of September 8, Doumbouya and the ruling junta, known as the National Rally and Development Committee (CNRD), have revealed very little about their plans, a troubling sign in a region where young coup leaders have resisted pressure to swiftly hand over power to civilians. The CNRD detained Condé and other top officials, dissolved the government, and imposed a nightly curfew. It has pledged to form a transitional government soon and committed to “rewrite a constitution together.” The junta failed to share additional details on the transition or present a timeline for a return to civilian rule. Doumbouya, however, has paid special attention to the bauxite mining sector, which saw prices leap to a decade high in the wake of the coup. He tried to assure business and economic interests, “asking mining companies to continue their activities” and exempting mining areas from the curfew.

Q2: What local, regional, and international drivers explain this coup d’état?

A2: While Doumbouya’s personal motivations are unclear, Condé’s decision to amend the constitution to run for a third term and recent missteps on the economy set the stage for the military putsch. In his first statement following the coup, Doumbouya vowed that “we will no longer entrust politics to one man; we will entrust it to the people.” He presumably was referring to President Condé’s increasingly messianic leadership. Condé, who had been a longtime opposition leader before his election in 2010, argued that he was the only one who could rule Guinea during a private meeting at CSIS in 2019. Condé proceeded to hold a controversial referendum and problematic election during the pandemic to secure a third term in office. Condé’s move was an affront to the public; according to Afrobarometer polling, more than 8 out of 10 Guineans favor a two-term limit on presidential mandates. Doumbouya also alluded to Condé’s economic mismanagement and the regime’s corruption. He deplored the “state of our roads . . . the state of our hospitals” and said that “we don't need to rape Guinea anymore, we just need to make love to her.” In another survey, Afrobarometer polling revealed that 63 percent of Guineans believed corruption had increased during the previous year.

Doumbouya also probably assessed that the region and international community, which had weakly protested Condé’s third term, would do little substantively to oppose the coup, judging from their ham-fisted responses to recent unconstitutional moves in Mali and Chad. The African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), France, and the United States have been hesitant to exact significant penalties in recent years, a contrast to past decades of principled responses to unconstitutional takeovers.

In Mali, 37-year-old colonel Assimi Goïta, who also served in a special forces unit, ousted civilian president Ibrahim Boubacar in August 2020. While ECOWAS suspended Mali from the regional body and the United States quietly imposed coup-related aid restrictions, France continued its counterterrorism operations and ECOWAS acceded to an 18-month transition led by a retired military general. A year later, Goïta removed Mali’s civilian transition leadership and declared himself interim president. His government seems in no rush to leave power. It has missed several deadlines, failing to submit a draft constitution or conduct voter registration. There has been limited international outcry or concern about this inevitable delay.

In Chad, 37-year-old Mahamat Idriss Déby assumed control following his father’s death on the battlefield in April 2020. The United States called for a transition of power in accordance with the Chadian constitution, but changed its tune following France and the African Union’s support for the young leader’s rule. When French president Macron attended the funeral for Déby’s father, he vowed that “France will not let anybody put into question or threaten today or tomorrow Chad's stability and integrity.” Déby, similar to his counterparts in Mali, promised an 18-month military-led transition, a dialogue, and a new constitution.
Q3: What are the coup’s implications, and what steps should be taken to arrest a democratic backsliding?

A3: Doumbouya’s age, temperament, and admiration for the region’s past coup leaders bode poorly for Guinea’s transition to civilian rule. Doumbouya is in the same age cohort as Goïta and Déby, all of whom served in elite military units. Rawlings, Doumbouya’s hero, seized power in a second coup in 1981 before he finally stepped down in 2000. (Goïta visited Rawlings, who recently died, for advice, as well as Moussa Traore, Mali’s military leader from 1968 to 1991.)

Doumbouya and the CNRD probably will use the same coup playbook perfected by Goïta and Déby, parroting the 18-month transition timeline and pledge to rewrite the constitution to placate the international community. If Guinea’s neighbors and external partners quietly accept these conditions, it will serve as a signal to ambitious soldiers in Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, and Niger—to name just a few potential candidates—that there are limited consequences for seizing power. While it is hard to prove a contagion effect, coups d’état in the region tend to occur in waves. Between November 1965 and February 1966, there were military takeovers in Congo, Dahomey, the Central African Republic, Upper Volta, Nigeria, and Ghana.

Africa’s regional bodies and international partners need to act more decisively to anticipate and respond to this alarming trend and evolving coup playbook.

Confront Democratic Backsliding. The international community has been meek in responding to problematic elections in Benin, ambivalent in tackling corruption in Mali, and uneven about term limits in Guinea and Cote d’Ivoire. While West Africa has suffered the fastest decline in political rights and civil liberties, its partners have prioritized counterterrorism or strategic competition with China and Russia over democracy promotion. This regression has set the conditions for soldiers to seize power or at least use it as pretext for military action.

Apply Lasting Penalties. Africa’s regional bodies and international partners have been going through the motions, instituting temporary suspensions and occasionally levying economic sanctions. These punitive measures usually are lifted quickly either because other priorities are paramount or at the slightest sign of progress. This leniency has enabled coup leaders to make minimal concessions while preparing for longer stays in power.

Shape the Transition. The international community has been lulled into accepting an increasingly similar transition plan, including dialogues and 18-month timelines, without questioning the process or objective. In Chad, for example, there is no pressing need to revise the constitution except for the fact that it bars Déby for running for the presidency because of his youth. In Mali, the junta has put forward a transition agenda that is simultaneously expansive and vague, making it difficult to identify priorities or assess progress. Transitions should be fit for purpose, and local, regional, and international stakeholders should help set the various milestones and timelines.

Prioritize Collective Action. The growing gap between neighboring countries, regional bodies, and foreign governments, especially ECOWAS, France, and the United States, have enabled authoritarian rulers and coup leaders to forum shop and undercut more forceful responses. President Biden’s Summit for Democracy could start a much-needed discussion on coordination and develop a new repertoire of responses to antidemocratic actions and coups d’état in the region.
Judd Devermont is director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

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